Sustainability assessment of alternative waste-to-energy technologies for the management of sewage sludge
Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
| Veröffentlicht in: | Waste management (New York, N.Y.). - 1999. - 159(2023) vom: 15. März, Seite 52-62 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2023
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Waste management (New York, N.Y.) |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article Combustion Gasification Pyrolysis Sewage sludge Sustainability Valorization Waste-to-energy technologies Sewage Metals, Heavy |
| Zusammenfassung: | Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved. The management of sewage sludge still represents a challenge in the EU sustainability plan for biowaste. Although there are consolidated alternatives for the valorization of sewage sludge (incineration, pyrolysis and gasification), technical issues related to heavy metals and other pollutants are not sufficiently understood considering the whole waste-to-energy process. In addition, societal-economic and environmental aspects are usually not included in the evaluation of these conversion technologies. In this study, we propose an integrated assessment from a sustainability perspective to evaluate the valorization of sewage sludge by thermal conversion, comparing different alternatives based on existing Waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies. The results provide an insightful vision on the challenges to manage the sewage sludge disposal and to transform the obtained waste into new raw materials with added value. In addition, the evaluation of the WtE alternatives shows that they face important challenges preventing their application, being the gasification the best performing technology according to the sustainability assessment. Finally, a decentralized scheme based on sewage sludge gasification is further evaluated using real data from wastewater treatment plants in Andalusia |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Completed 23.02.2023 Date Revised 23.02.2023 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1879-2456 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.wasman.2023.01.025 |