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Optimization for municipal solid waste treatment based on energy consumption and contaminant emission

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This paper analyzes the characterization of energy consumption and contaminant emissions from a municipal solid waste (MSW) treatment system that comprises transfer station, landfill site, combustion plant, composting plant, dejecta treatment station, and an integrated MSW treatment plant. The consumed energy and energy medium materials were integrated under comprehensive energy consumption (CEC) for comparison. Among typical MSW disposal methods such as combustion, composting, and landfilling, landfilling has the minimum CEC value. Installing an integrated treatment plant is the recommended MSW management method because of its lower CEC. Furthermore, this method is used to ensure process centralization. In landfill sites, a positive linear correlation was observed between the CEC and contaminant removal ratios when emitted pollutants have a certain weight coefficient. The process should utilize the minimum CEC value of 5.3702 kgce/t MSW and consider energy consumption, energy recovery, MSW components, and the equivalent of carbon dioxide emissions.

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Abbreviations

S-Ts :

MSW transfer station

S-Cb :

MSW combustion treatment plant

S-Cp :

MSW composting treatment plant

S-Lf :

MSW landfill treatment site

S-Dj :

Dejecta treatment station

S-It :

Integrated MSW treatment plant

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This work was funded by the National Science and Technology Pillar Program of China (project no. 2011BAJ07B04). The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Beijing Solid Waste Administration Department and the administrators of the landfill sites for providing data.

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  1. Department of Environmental Engineering, The Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences, Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    An-ying Jiao, Zhen-shan Li, Lei Wang & Meng-jing Xia

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Jiao, Ay., Li, Zs., Wang, L. et al. Optimization for municipal solid waste treatment based on energy consumption and contaminant emission. Environ Sci Pollut Res 20, 6232–6241 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-013-1647-4

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