ENERGY FROM WASTE REDUCTION IN CARBON FOOTPRINT REQUIRES MAXIMUM ENERGY RECOVERY FROM WASTE

摘要

In the UK, Europe and USA waste to energy technology is being installed at a pace. In the NEPIC footprint alone in NE England, 3 large units are being built by Air Products and Sita-Sembcorp to generate 150 megawatt (mw) of electricity from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). Alongside these units several anaerobic digestion plants are already being operated by companies such as Northumbrian Water and Emerald Biogass, who are generating electricity from food and sewage wastes. In India there are companies such as Plasma Energy generating fuels from waste and by 2012 some 135 mw waste to energy installations were operational in distilleries, pulp and paper mills, food processing, chemical and starch industries. India's second stand-alone waste to energy plant is already under construction at Narela, the first being operational in Okhla in Delhi. According to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in India, there is a potential to recover some 1,500-2000 mw of power from industrial and wastes.