Analysis of the sustainability of using wastes in the Brazilian power industry

Luciano Basto Oliveira, Maria Silvia Muylaert de Araujo, Luiz Pinguelli Rosa, Martha Barata and Emílio Lebre La Rovere

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2008, vol. 12, issue 3, 883-890

Abstract: This paper presents a methodology for analyzing the sustainability of using wastes in the Brazilian power industry. It will describe projects, both completed and under development by coordination of the post-graduation programs in engineering (COPPE) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), for generating energy from wastes. The results of these projects were included in a doctoral thesis [Oliveira LB. Aproveitamento energético de lixo e biodiesel no Brasil (energy use of garbage and biodiesel in Brazil). Dissertation (doctoral), COPPE/UFRJ, 2004, p. 204, http://www.ppe.ufrj.br/ppe/production/tesis/lboliveira.pdf] defended in 2004 at the Energy Planning Program of the COPPE at the UFRJ--PPE/COPPE/UFRJ. The study encompasses an analysis of sustainability using a methodology developed for the above-mentioned dissertation, taking two existing methodologies into account: sustainability analysis and data envelopment analysis.

Keywords: Waste; Renewable; energy; Sustainable; development; Brazilian; biomass (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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