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Energy Exploitation of Non-Recyclable Urban Waste in an Sustainable waste to Energy Market ENERGY WASTE
The core aim of the project is to study, develop and implement an advanced gasification concept for the energy exploitation of the non-recyclable stream of modern recycling factory. The whole process will be designed, implemented and monitored by WATT S.A. and the research organisation CERTH/ISFTA, with a major mobilisation of the Region of Central Macedonia that will disseminate the project’s results and assess the business opportunities of waste energy utilisation, together with the European Renewable Energies Federation.
In the project, a specific demonstration action plan to exploit the thermal content of non recyclable urban waste from the WATT’s recycling factory will be implemented. WATT is a recycling unit able of handling 100.000 tons per annum waste coming from a) source separated dry recyclables and b) commercial & industrial (C&I) waste. The process used for the treatment of the incoming waste streams and the recovery of recyclable materials takes place using equipment installed in a fully enclosed building. The material streams produced from the process are the following:
The non recyclable streams (4 and 5) could be used for the production of RDF/SRF able to be utilised as gasification fuel. The production requires additional infrastructures capable of producing solid fuel with specific characteristics. Activities of the proposed project will focus on the energy exploitation of this waste fraction.
The main objectives are:
a) maximising the project’s results as regards the efficiency of SRF utilisation to electricity generation,
b) proving the sustainability of the examined scheme,
c) providing recommendations to policy makers how to overcome the institutional, legal and other obstacles that prohibit the sustainable energy exploitation of waste and
d) ensuring that the project’s results will have a strong replication potential (by providing tailored guidelines) across Greece, and Europe in general.