Energy Treatment of Solid Municipal Waste in Combination with Biomass by Decentralized Method with the Respect to the Negative Effects on the Environment

Miroslav Rimar, Olha Kulikova, Andrii Kulikov and Marcel Fedak
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Miroslav Rimar: Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with the Seat in Presov, Technical University of Kosice, Bayerova 1, 08001 Presov, Slovakia
Olha Kulikova: Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with the Seat in Presov, Technical University of Kosice, Bayerova 1, 08001 Presov, Slovakia
Andrii Kulikov: Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with the Seat in Presov, Technical University of Kosice, Bayerova 1, 08001 Presov, Slovakia
Marcel Fedak: Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with the Seat in Presov, Technical University of Kosice, Bayerova 1, 08001 Presov, Slovakia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 8, 1-14

Abstract: Waste is a product of society and one of the biggest challenges for future generations is to understand how to sustainably dispose of large amounts of waste. The main objective of this study was to determine the possibility and conditions of the decentralized combustion of non-hazardous municipal waste. The analysis of the combustion properties of a mixture of wood chips and 20–30% of municipal solid waste showed an improvement in the operating parameters of the combustion process. Analysis also confirmed that the co-combustion of dirty fuels and biomass reduced the risk of releasing minerals and heavy metals from fuel into the natural environment. Approximately 55% of the heavy metals passed into the ash. The analysis of municipal solid waste and fuel mixtures containing municipal solid waste for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons showed the risk of increasing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentrations in flue gases.

Keywords: biomass; municipal solid waste; combustion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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