Developing a Cyber-Physical System for Promoting Green Engineering of Solid Waste Incineration

摘要

Waste incineration is proved as an effective option for waste management but evokes the Not-In-My-BackYard (NIMBY) syndrome. Information and communication technologies may contribute to highly efficient, sensing monitoring and control of better waste incineration decision making. However, the application is dominated by continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMS), which has several inherent defects. This paper presents a cyber-physical system (CPS) to promote the environmental performance of waste incineration and alleviate the NIMBY syndrome. The proposed CPS comprehensively focuses on the whole process of waste incineration from waste pretreatment to pollutant emission handling the life cycle of waste incineration for pollution prevention and control. The CPS combines a group of real-time and near real-time sensing and monitoring technologies distributed in different application scenes to aid in the supervision of waste incineration so as to optimize the operational efficiency. The local stakeholders are also connected to such a CPS as part of the community-right-to-know action, with the aid of in-situ data processing, cloud storage, and cloud computing in the computer network layer of the CPS. The application layer of the CPS combines the advantages of various kinds of systems analysis models to extract the implication from big data, for the sake of improving the performance of waste incineration. Using unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with sensors for verification and post-evaluation was carried out by a “system of systems” engineering approach.