Publication detail

Waste Availability, Successful Regional Strategies and New WtE Projects Shaping – The Benefits and Application of The Optimization Tool NERUDA

PAVLAS, M.

Original Title

Waste Availability, Successful Regional Strategies and New WtE Projects Shaping – The Benefits and Application of The Optimization Tool NERUDA

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

The paper deals with a recent important issue of possibility to simulate future changes in waste flows at regional and/or international level. The special attention is paid to the residual waste and promotion of its sustainable utilization by waste-to-energy (WtE). The shift towards more efficient utilization requires designing of wise regional strategies and investors’ volition to build and operate new incineration plants at the same time. For both policy-makers and operators, the prediction of waste availability in coming years represents a challenging task, especially in today’s dynamic world. Uncertain future changes in the population, waste production by households and share of exploitation of marketable forms of recyclables have direct influence on residual waste availability and its transport in the region. Moreover, waste can be transferred over longer distance for its energy recovery. In combination with uneven implementation of economic instruments (i.e. landfill and incineration taxation) in every region, previously mentioned aspects lead to different processing prices and form a competitive environment. This competition makes the decision-making process even more complicated. A sophisticated computational tool NERUDA, which can be used for simulation and optimization of waste flows from its sources to disposal sites in selected region, is introduced first. This tool is based on a comprehensive mathematical model (logistic problem minimizing the total cost) which is applied on a network describing existing infrastructure obtained from GIS. Next, the benefits of NERUDA are presented through practical examples. Namely, these are: (1) an analysis of waste streams distribution between key components (landfills, WtE plants and mechanical-biological treatment plants) considering future landfill taxation and/or banning; (2) risk-analysis for specific WtE in its conceptual development stage. The examples presented come from NERUDA tool application for a specific region (the Czech Republic).

Keywords

waste-to-energy; NERUDA; waste flow simulation; incineration

Authors

PAVLAS, M.

RIV year

2014

Released

1. 9. 2014

Publisher

TK Verlag Karl Thomé-Kozmiensky

Location

Neuruppin, Deutschland

ISBN

978-3-944310-15-2

Book

Thomé-Kozmiensky K.J, Thiel S. (Eds): Waste Management, Volume 4

Pages from

139

Pages to

150

Pages count

11

URL

http://vivis.de/

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT109960,
  author="Martin {Pavlas}",
  title="Waste Availability, Successful Regional Strategies and New WtE Projects Shaping – The Benefits and Application of The Optimization Tool NERUDA",
  booktitle="Thomé-Kozmiensky K.J, Thiel S. (Eds): Waste Management, Volume 4",
  year="2014",
  pages="139--150",
  publisher="TK Verlag Karl Thomé-Kozmiensky",
  address="Neuruppin, Deutschland",
  isbn="978-3-944310-15-2",
  url="http://vivis.de/"
}