Environmental and socio-economic assessment of co-combustion of coal, biomass and non-hazardous wastes in a Power Plant

J. Morais, R. Barbosa, N. Lapa, B. Mendes and I. Gulyurtlu

Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2011, vol. 55, issue 11, 1109-1118

Abstract: Under the framework of the European project named COPOWER, the possibility to partially substitute coal used in a 243MWth Power Plant by biomass and non-hazardous wastes for the production of electricity and steam was assessed. Three combustion scenarios were studied, based on the combustion tests performed in a Power Plant located in Duisburg (Germany): Scenario 0 (Sc0) – combustion of coal; Scenario 1 (Sc1) – combustion of coal+sewage sludge (SS)+meat and bone meal (MBM); Scenario 2 (Sc2) – coal+SS+wood pellets (WP). An environmental and socio-economic assessment of these three scenarios was performed. In the environmental point of view, Sc0 was the worst scenario, mainly due to the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG). Sc1 was the best scenario, mainly due to the reduction of GHG emission, eutrophication chemical species and ozone depletion gases. In the socio-economic point of view, Sc0 was the worst scenario, mainly due to the absence of GHG abatement, and Sc1 was the best scenario due to the best cost of electricity production and negative cost of avoided emissions.

Keywords: Biomass; Non-hazardous wastes; Co-combustion; Environmental and socio-economic assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344911001376
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:recore:v:55:y:2011:i:11:p:1109-1118

DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2011.06.011

Access Statistics for this article

Resources, Conservation & Recycling is currently edited by Ming Xu

More articles in Resources, Conservation & Recycling from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Kai Meng ().