FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE FOR ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION USING WASTE TO ENERGY INCINERATION TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

With rapid economic growth and massive urbanization in India, many cities face the problem of municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal. Improper management of municipal solid waste causes hazards to inhabitant. In an emerging economy like India, rapid population growth has further added to the intensity of waste generation. There has been increasing pressure in India to reduce green- house gases and CO2 emissions. The growth of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) has been skyrocketing as a result of growing urban population and industrialization. The MSWM (municipal solid waste management) system comprises with generation, storage, collection, transfer and transport, processing and disposal of solid wastes. The conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW) to energy can conserve more valuable fuels and improve the environment by lessening the amount of waste that must be landfilled and by conserving energy and natural resources. With the lack of space for new landfills, five technologies for waste to energy generation, namely biomethanation, incineration, gasification/pyrolysis, Refused Derived Fuel (RDF) and plasma arc gasification are playing an increasingly important role in waste management have been compared. Roorkee City being under holy district Haridwar is a target place of the government to clean it under “Swach Bharat Abhiyan” and “Ganga Bachao” programme, so in order to be part of these programmes Roorkee city is selected for the dissertation work. Effective waste management has been a big challenge in most developing cities including Roorkee. Collection and sorting of municipal wastes at source in Roorkee with the hope of reducing the indiscriminate dumping of wastes has never been realized. A study on the potential of generating green energy from municipal solid waste at Roorkee is presented in this dissertation. Roorkee is also a big generation city of MSW as city comprises of Industrial Area & Colleges also. The population of Roorkee city as per the census 2014 is 1.4 lakh. The study is conducted by collecting data from waste collection points of Roorkee city. The waste generation per day is around 200 tonne per day. The work represents study of current municipal solid waste management technique of Roorkee City and comparison of different Waste to Energy technologies.