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Development of Waste-to-Energy Plants Database for Evaluating the Efficiency of Energy Recovery from Waste in Europe

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Efficient waste-to-energy plants can be classified as energy recovery operations rather that waste disposal, according to the Waste Framework Directive, which came into force on 12 December 2008. As a result, waste could replace fossil fuels, which would have been otherwise used for energy recovery. Aim of the present paper is the presentation of one developed waste-to-energy plants database for evaluating the efficiency of energy recovery from waste in Europe. The main database fields are the energy recovery, the capacity, the contractor, the location of the plant, the investment and operation cost and various characteristics of boilers that affect the efficiency of 416 registered waste-to-energy plants. Quantitative results include the number of waste-to-energy plants per European country, the kind and amount of treated waste, the kind of typology and other operational parameters of plants and the energy recovery status.

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Abbreviations

AD:

Andorra

AT:

Austria

BE:

Belgium

CH:

Switzerland

CZ:

Chez Republic

DE:

Deutschland

DK:

Denmark

ES:

Spain

FI:

Finland

FR:

France

GB:

United Kingdom

HU:

Hungary

IT:

Investment cost

IT:

Italy

LU:

Luxemburg

MSW:

Municipal Solid Waste

NL:

Netherlands

NO:

Norway

PT:

Portugal

RDF:

Refuse Derived Fuel

RU:

Russian Federation

SE:

Sweden

SK:

Slovakia

SRF:

Shredded Refuse Fuel

WFD:

Waste Framework Directive

WtE:

Waste to energy

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  1. Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Environmental Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Box 483, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

    G. Perkoulidis & N. Moussiopoulos

  2. Sigma Consultants Ltd, Central Macedonia, 54622, Thessaloniki, Greece

    T. Kasampalis & L. Karagiannidis

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Perkoulidis, G., Kasampalis, T., Karagiannidis, L. et al. Development of Waste-to-Energy Plants Database for Evaluating the Efficiency of Energy Recovery from Waste in Europe. Waste Biomass Valor 6, 983–988 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-015-9397-9

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