Solid Waste as a Renewable Resource Methodologies

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. The twenty-first century world faces several enormous challenges: how to mitigate climate change, meet a growing energy demand without relying on fossil fuels, and manage the escalating quantities of solid waste generated by cities around the world. This compendium volume offers a viable solution to all three: using solid waste as a renewable resource. Intended for a wide audience ranging from engineers and academics to decision-makers in both the public and private sectors, this volume has gathered together research into a range of technologies and methodologies. The editors, two well-published researchers at the top of their field, have selected articles that lay the foundation for this discussion. They have then included chapters for the following waste management scenarios: anaerobic digestion, composting, pyrolysis and chemical upgrading, incineration and carbonization, and gasification. Research has been included from around the world, representing potential international solutions to what are global challenges, as well as crucial implications for ongoing research in this important field of study.

Introduction Part I: Foundations Energy Recovery from Municipal and Industrial Wastes: How Much Green?; Satinder Kaur Brar, Saurabh Jyoti Sarma, and Mausam Verma Energy Recovery Potential and Life Cycle Impact Assessment of Municipal Solid Waste Management Technologies in Asian Countries Using ELP Model; Andante Hadi Pandyaswargo, Hiroshi Onoda, and Katsuya Nagata Part II: Anaerobic Digestion Utilization of Household Food Waste for the Production of Ethanol at High Dry Material Content; Leonidas Matsakas, Dimitris Kekos, Maria Loizidou, and Paul Christakopoulos Production of Fungal Glucoamylase for Glucose Production from Food Waste; Wan Chi Lam, Daniel Pleissner, and Carol Sze Ki Lin Part III: Composting Changes in Selected Hydrophobic Components During Composting of Municipal Solid Wastes; Jakub Bekier, Jerzy Drozd, Elzbieta Jamroz, Bogdan Jarosz, Andrzej Kocowicz, Karolina Walenczak, and Jerzy Weber Transforming Municipal Waste into a Valuable Soil Conditioner through Knowledge-Based Resource-Recovery Management; Golabi MH, Kirk Johnson, Takeshi Fujiwara, and Eri Ito Part IV: Pyrolysis and Chemical Upgrading Furfurals as Chemical Platform for Biofuels Production 157; Daniel E. Resasco, Surapas Sitthisa, Jimmy Faria, Teerawit Prasomsri, and M. Pilar Ruiz Part V: Incineration and Carbonization Incineration of Pre-Treated Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) for Energy Co-Generation in a Non-Densely Populated Area; Ettore Trulli, Vincenzo Torretta, Massimo Raboni, and Salvatore Masi Gaseous Emissions During Concurrent Combustion of Biomass and Non-Recyclable Municipal Solid Waste; René Laryea-Goldsmith, John Oakey, and Nigel J. Simms Environmental Effects of Sewage Sludge Carbonization and Other Treatment Alternatives; Ning-Yi Wang, Chun-Hao Shih, Pei-Te Chiueh, and Yu-Fong Huang Part VI: Gasification An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Fluidized Bed Gasification of Solid Waste; Sharmina Begum, Mohammad G. Rasul, Delwar Akbar, and David Cork Gasification of Plastic Waste as Waste-to-Energy or Waste-to-Syngas Recovery Route; Anke Brems, Raf Dewil, Jan Baeyens, and Rui Zhang Index

Jimmy Faria is senior scientist at Abengoa Research, a R&D division of Abengoa. He is a chemical engineer and obtained a PhD from the University of Oklahoma (USA) in 2012. His research at the School of Chemical, Biological and Material Science at the University of Oklahoma (USA) is focused on the catalytic conversion of biomass-derived compounds in a novel nanoparticle stabilized emulsion system developed in this group, as well as on the synthesis, characterization, and applications of amphiphilic nanohybrids (e.g., enhanced oil recovery). Maria Pilar Ruiz-Ramiro is senior scientist at Abengoa Research, a R&D division of Abengoa. She is a chemical engineer and obtained a PhD from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 2008. She later worked as research associate with Daniel E. Resasco at the School of Chemical, Biological and Material Science at the University of Oklahoma (USA). Her research is focused on the thermochemical conversion of biomass, synthesis, and characterization of carbon solids (carbon nanotubes, biomass char, and soot), and the development of nanostructured catalysts for biofuels up-grading reactions.