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Assessment of municipal solid waste for energy production in the western United States

Description: Municipal solid waste (MSW) represents both a significant problem and an abundant resource for the production of energy. The residential, institutional, and industrial sectors of this country generate about 250 million tons of MSW each year. In this report, the authors have compiled data on the status of MSW in the 13-state western region, including economic and environmental issues. The report is designed to assist the members of the Western Regional Biomass Energy Program Ad Hoc Resource Comm… more
Date: August 1, 1990
Creator: Goodman, B.J. & Texeira, R.H.
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Data Summary of Municipal Solid Waste Management Alternatives, Volume 8: Appendix F--Landfills

Description: While the preceding appendices have focused on the thermochemical approaches to managing municipal solid waste (MSW), this appendix and those that follow on composting and anaerobic digestion address more of the bioconversion process technologies. Landfilling is the historical baseline MSW management option central to every community's solid waste management plan. It generally encompasses shredfills, balefills, landfill gas recovery, and landfill mining. While landfilling is virtually universal… more
Date: October 1992
Creator: SRI International
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Guam Strategic Energy Plan

Description: Describes various energy strategies available to Guam to meet the territory's goal of diversifying fuel sources and reducing fossil energy consumption 20% by 2020.The information presented in this strategic energy plan will be used by the Guam Energy Task Force to develop an energy action plan. Available energy strategies include policy changes, education and outreach, reducing energy consumption at federal facilities, and expanding the use of a range of energy technologies, including buildings… more
Date: July 1, 2013
Creator: Conrad, M. D.
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Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Energy Action Plan

Description: This document describes the three near-term energy strategies selected by the CNMI Energy Task Force during action planning workshops conducted in March 2013, and outlines the steps being taken to implement those strategies. The three energy strategies selected by the task force are (1) designing a demand-side management program focusing on utility, residential and commercial sectors, (2) developing an outreach and education plan focused on energy conservation in government agencies and busines… more
Date: July 1, 2013
Creator: Conrad, M. D. & Ness, J. E.
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Strategies for International Cooperation in Support of Energy Development in Pacific Island Nations

Description: The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has been partnering with island communities around the world to address the technical, policy, social, and economic hurdles to deploying energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies (RETs) on small, islanded systems. The lessons learned from these partnerships are briefly summarized in this document with the goal of supporting the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in the development of specific near-t… more
Date: May 1, 2012
Creator: Miller, M.; Voss, P.; Warren, A.; Baring-Gould, I. & Conrad, M.
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Guam Energy Action Plan

Description: Describes the four near-term strategies selected by the Guam Energy Task Force during action planning workshops conducted in March 2013, and outlines the steps being taken to implement those strategies. Each strategy addresses one of the energy sectors identified in the earlier Guam strategic energy plan as being an essential component of diversifying Guam's fuel sources and reducing fossil energy consumption 20% by 2020. The four energy strategies selected are: (1) expanding public outreach on… more
Date: July 1, 2013
Creator: Conrad, M. D. & Ness, J. E.
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Role of Ash Deposits in the High Temperature Corrosion of Boiler Tubes

Description: Ash deposits cause accelerated corrosion of waterwall boiler tubes in waste to energy (WTE) incinerators. To study this effect, a series of experiments were planned to determine the mechanism of corrosion of carbon steel boiler tubes under ash deposits. Results reported here were for carbon steel tubes exposed to an environment consisting of O{sub 2}, CO{sub 2}, N{sub 2}, and water vapor. Future experiments will include HCl and SO{sub 2}. Test procedures included both isothermal and thermal gra… more
Date: March 16, 2003
Creator: Covino, B. S., Jr.; Russell, J. H.; Cramer, S. D.; Holcomb, G. R.; Bullard, S. J.; Ziomek-Moroz, M. et al.
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Integrated solid waste management in Japan

Description: The Japanese, through a combination of public policy, private market conditions, a geographic necessity, practice integrated municipal solid waste (MSW) management. The approach of MSW management in Japan is as follows: The basic concept of refuse treatment consists of recycling discharged refuse into usable resources, reusing such resources as much as possible, and then treating or disposing of the usable portion into a sanitary condition. Considering the difficulty of procuring land or seasid… more
Date: October 1993
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Assessment of landfill reclamation and the effects of age on the combustion of recovered municipal solid waste

Description: This report summarized the Lancaster county Solid Waste Management Authorities`s (LCSWMA)landfill reclamation activities, ongoing since 1991. All aspects have been analyzed from the manpower and equipment requirements at the landfill to the operational impacts felt at the LCSWMA Resource Recovery Facility (RRF) where the material is delivered for processing. Characteristics of the reclaimed refuse and soil recovered from trommeling operations are discussed as are results of air monitoring perfo… more
Date: January 1995
Creator: Forster, G. A.
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Field evaluation of natural gas and dry sorbent injection for MWC emissions control

Description: The Institute of Gas Technology (IGT), in cooperation with the Olmsted Waste-to-Energy Facility (OWEF) and with subcontracted engineering services from the Energy and Environmental Research Corporation (EER), has completed the detailed engineering and preparation of construction specifications for an Emissions Reduction Testing System (ERTS). The ERTS has been designed for retrofit to one of two 100-ton/day municipal waste combustors at the OWEF, located in Rochester, Minnesota. The purpose of … more
Date: October 1993
Creator: Wohadlo, S.; Abbasi, H. & Cygan, D.
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Waste-to-energy in the United States: Socioeconomic factors and the decision-making process

Description: Municipal solid waste (MSW) combustion with energy recovery, commonly called waste-to-energy (WTE), was adopted by many US communities during the 1980s to manage their growing quantities of MSW. Although less than one percent of all US MSW was burned to retrieve its heat energy in 1970, WTE grew to account for 16 percent of MSW in 1990, and many experts forecasted that WTE would be used to manage as much as half of all garbage by the turn of the century. However, the growth of WTE has been redu… more
Date: October 1993
Creator: Curlee, T. R.; Schexnayder, S. M.; Vogt, D. P.; Wolfe, A. K.; Kelsay, M. P. & Feldman, D. L.
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Mercury emissions from municipal solid waste combustors. An assessment of the current situation in the United States and forecast of future emissions

Description: This report examines emissions of mercury (Hg) from municipal solid waste (MSW) combustion in the United States (US). It is projected that total annual nationwide MSW combustor emissions of mercury could decrease from about 97 tonnes (1989 baseline uncontrolled emissions) to less than about 4 tonnes in the year 2000. This represents approximately a 95 percent reduction in the amount of mercury emitted from combusted MSW compared to the 1989 mercury emissions baseline. The likelihood that routin… more
Date: May 1993
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Data Summary of Municipal Solid Waste Management Alternatives. Volume 1: Report Text

Description: This report provides data for use in evaluating the proven technologies and combinations of technologies that might be considered for managing municipal solid waste (MSW). It covers five major methods for MSW management in common use today: Landfilling; Mass combustion for energy recovery; Production of refuse-derived fuel (RDF); Collection/separation of recyclables; and Composting. It also provides information on three MSW management technologies that are not widely used at present: Anaerobic … more
Date: October 1992
Creator: SRI International
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Waste Not, Want Not: Analyzing the Economic and Environmental Viability of Waste-to-Energy (WTE) Technology for Site-Specific Optimization of Renewable Energy Options

Description: Waste-to-energy (WTE) technology burns municipal solid waste (MSW) in an environmentally safe combustion system to generate electricity, provide district heat, and reduce the need for landfill disposal. While this technology has gained acceptance in Europe, it has yet to be commonly recognized as an option in the United States. Section 1 of this report provides an overview of WTE as a renewable energy technology and describes a high-level model developed to assess the feasibility of WTE at a si… more
Date: February 1, 2013
Creator: Funk, K.; Milford, J. & Simpkins, T.
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Data summary of municipal solid waste management alternatives. Executive summary

Description: This study was initiated to compile publicly available data on the five major options commonly used for municipal solid waste MSW management today: Landfilling, mass burning for energy recovery, production and combustion of refuse-derived fuel (RDF), and composting. The report also provides some data on energy, environmental releases, and economics for the following less commonly used options: Anaerobic digestion, coining of RDF with coal, gasification/pyrolysis. Because no commercial anaerobic… more
Date: August 1992
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RD & D priorities for energy production and resource conservation from municipal solid waste

Description: This report identifies research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) needs and priorities associated with municipal solid waste (MSW) management technologies that conserve or produce energy or resources. The changing character of MSW waste management and the public`s heightened awareness of its real and perceived benefits and costs creates opportunities for RD&D in MSW technologies. Increased recycling, for example, creates new opportunities for energy, chemicals, and materials recovery. New … more
Date: August 1992
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Data Summary of Municipal Solid Waste Management Alternatives, Volume 4: Appendix B--RDF Technologies

Description: This appendix contains background information, technical descriptions, economic data, mass and energy balances, and information on environmental releases for the refuse derived fuels (RDF) option in municipal solid waste management alternatives. Demonstration programs at St. Louis, Missouri; Franklin, Ohio; and Delaware are discussed. Information on pellet production and cofiring with coal is also presented.
Date: October 1992
Creator: SRI International
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Data Summary of Municipal Solid Waste Management Alternatives, Volume 7: Appendix E--Material Recovery/Material Recycling Technologies

Description: The enthusiasm for and commitment to recycling of municipal solid wastes is based on several intuitive benefits: Conservation of landfill capacity; Conservation of non-renewable natural resources and energy sources; Minimization of the perceived potential environmental impacts of MSW combustion and landfilling; Minimization of disposal costs, both directly and through material resale credits. In this discussion, ``recycling`` refers to materials recovered from the waste stream. It excludes scra… more
Date: October 1992
Creator: SRI International
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Data Summary of Municipal Solid Waste Management Alternatives. Volume 9: Appendix G--Composting

Description: Composting of municipal solid waste (MSW) is experiencing a dramatic resurgence in the US. Several factors are driving this interest in composting including landfill closures, resistance to siting of new landfills and combustion facilities, public support for recycling, and, in general, the overall costs of waste disposal. Starting with only one demonstration project operating in 1980, the total number of projects in the US has increased to sixteen by July 1991. There are approximately 100 proj… more
Date: October 1992
Creator: SRI International
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Data Summary of Municipal Solid Waste Management Alternatives, Volume 2: Exhibits

Description: The overall objective of the study in this report was to gather data on waste management technologies to allow comparison of various alternatives for managing municipal solid waste (MSW). The specific objectives of the study were to: 1. Compile detailed data for existing waste management technologies on costs, environmental releases, energy requirements and production, and coproducts such as recycled materials and compost. Identify missing information necessary to make energy, economic, and env… more
Date: October 1992
Creator: SRI International
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Data Summary of Municipal Solid Waste Management Alternatives, Volume 6: Appendix D--Pyrolysis and Gasification of MSW

Description: This Appendix summarizes information available in the open literature describing the technology and operating experierice of pyrolysis technology as applied to the management of municipal solid waste (MSW). The literature search, which emphasized the time frame of greatest activity in MSW pyrolysis (i.e., the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s), focused on the scale of application, material feedstock, technical limitations and economic considerations. Smaller scale facilities, either laboratory/researc… more
Date: October 1992
Creator: SRI International
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Data Summary of Municipal Solid Waste Management Alternatives. Volume 1: Report Text

Description: This report provides data for use in evaluating the proven technologies and combinations of technologies that might be considered for managing municipal solid waste (MSW). It covers five major methods for MSW management in common use today: Landfilling; Mass combustion for energy recovery; Production of refuse-derived fuel (RDF); Collection/separation of recyclables; and Composting. It also provides information on three MSW management technologies that are not widely used at present: Anaerobic … more
Date: October 1992
Creator: SRI International
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Data Summary of Municipal Solid Waste Management Alternatives, Volume 12: Numerically Indexed Bibliography

Description: This appendix contains the numerically indexed bibliography for the complete group of reports on municipal solid waste management alternatives. The list references information on the following topics: mass burn technologies, RDF technologies, fluidized bed combustion, pyrolysis and gasification of MSW, materials recovery- recycling technologies, sanitary landfills, composting and anaerobic digestion of MSW.
Date: October 1992
Creator: SRI International
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Data Summary of Municipal Solid Waste Management Alternatives, Volume 10: Appendix H--Anaerobic Digestion of MSW

Description: While municipal solid waste (MSW) thermoconversion and recycling technologies have been described in Appendices A through E, this appendix addresses the role of bioconversion technologies in handling the organic fraction in MSW and sewage sludge. Much of the organic matter in MSW, consisting mainly of paper, food waste, and yard waste, has potential for conversion, along with sewage sludge, through biochemical processes to methane and carbon dioxide providing a measurable, renewable energy reso… more
Date: October 1992
Creator: SRI International
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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