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Influence of legislative conditioned changes in waste management on economic viability of MSW-fuelled district heating system: Case study
- Source :
- Thermal Science, Vol 20, Iss 4, Pp 1105-1120 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- National Library of Serbia, 2016.
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Abstract
- District heating systems represents one of the ways by which the European Union is trying to reach set goals in energy efficiency and security field. These systems allow the use of different energy sources including local energy sources such as waste and biomass. This paper provides economic viability assessment of using these fuels in the district heating system. Economic evaluation is based on regression analysis from data of existing plants and on the locally dependent data. Some of parameters that are dependent of local parameters are price and available fuel quantity, therefore these values are separately modelled; biomass as a function of location of the plant while municipal waste as a function of location and the time changes in waste quantity and composition which depend of socio-economic trends and legislation. This methodology is applied on the case of district heating plants in the City of Zagreb where internal rates of return are calculated for four considered scenarios. Results indicate that waste powered plant can improve its profitability by co-combusting other local wastes while economic viability is achieved by introduction of region wide waste management system. Reducing plant capacity, based on prognosis of waste generation, showed that these plants can be competitive with biomass plants.
- Subjects :
- Municipal solid waste
Mobile incinerator
lcsh:Mechanical engineering and machinery
020209 energy
02 engineering and technology
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
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lcsh:TJ1-1570
European union
district heating systems
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waste to energy
municipal solid waste
waste prognosis
economic viability
biomass
waste water treatment
AD sludge
Waste management
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Waste-to-energy
Waste treatment
Heating system
Environmental science
Cleaner production
Energy source
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Details
- ISSN :
- 23347163 and 03549836
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Thermal Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5a7fd392cb6c8b3c7f05ee74b1e8b743