Technical, economic and environmental analysis of energy production from municipal solid waste

J.D. Murphy and E. McKeogh

Renewable Energy, 2004, vol. 29, issue 7, 1043-1057

Abstract: Four technologies are investigated which produce energy from municipal solid waste (MSW): incineration, gasification, generation of biogas and utilisation in a combined heat and power (CHP) plant, generation of biogas and conversion to transport fuel.

Keywords: MSW; Incineration; Gasification; Biogas; CHP; Gate fee; Greenhouse gas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (46)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148103003951
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:renene:v:29:y:2004:i:7:p:1043-1057

DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2003.12.002

Access Statistics for this article

Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides

More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().