Chemical Carbon and Hydrogen Recycle through Waste Gasification: The Methanol Route

Alessia Borgogna, Gaetano Iaquaniello, Annarita Salladini, Emanuela Agostini and Mirko Boccacci

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Abstract: A large amount of valuable Carbon and Hydrogen is lost in the disposal of the non-recyclable fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) - particularly unsorted waste fraction and plastics residue from mechanical recycle process. The waste-to-chemical technology allows to exploit the components entrapped in the non-recyclable waste by converting it into new chemicals. The core of waste-to-chemical technology is the gasification process, which is designed to convert waste into a valuable syngas to be used as example for methanol production. Waste to methanol schemes allow to achieve significant environmental and economic benefits, which can be further intensified within the scenario of increasing share of renewable energy.

Keywords: Waste gasification; carbon recycle; methanol; hydrogen (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.98206

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