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Integrating Energy Recovery into Solid Waste Management
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36 |
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1/01/2010; End:
31/12/2012 |
| Web: |
www.ieabioenergytask36.org |
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Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and the UK |
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Task Leadership |
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Leader
Dr Pat Howes
AEA Technology Environment
Gemini Building/ Cherwell Wing
Fermi Avenue
Harwell International Business Centre
Didcot, OX11 0QR
United Kingdom
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Email: Pat_Howes@uk.aeat.com
Tel: +44 870 190 6151
Fax: +44 870 190 6327
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Assistant to Task Leader
Ms Grace Gordon
AEA Technology Environment
AEA Technology Environment
B329 K/Wing Harwell, Didcot
Oxfordshire OX11 0QJ
United Kingdom
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Email: Grace.Gordon@aeat.co.uk
Tel: +44 870 190 6482
Fax: +44 870 190 6616
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Objectives |
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This Task will examine issues that are important to policy development and implementation of energy recovery systems (including anaerobic digestion) for solid wastes. In undertaking this work the Task will include cross cutting issues such as GHG life cycle assessment and cost-benefit analysis. A close collaboration with other Tasks in the Bioenergy Framework will be important to the success of this work.
Key objectives are review and exchange information on energy from waste options in participating countries in order to share potential solutions to overcoming barriers to implementation. This will include examination of the impact of management and design of facilities on environmental impacts such as the production of residues. Working to develop an understanding of the appropriate application of energy recovery, including integration with recycling and recovery facilities (i.e. within ‘eco refineries’) and an understanding of the options available at small-scale for rural areas and developing countries. Increasing the understanding of the impact of changing policies on the uptake of energy from waste in participating countries. Policies on renewable energy in particular impact in a number of ways: by supporting energy from biogenic fractions only and by incentivising the use of heat these policies can change the direction of waste management for energy recovery. Policies on waste management are moving towards the inclusion of an appreciation of the carbon balance of different options. Working with other key Tasks where relevant work is being undertaken, e.g. on GHG life cycle assessment or on anaerobic digestion.
Waste management continues to face challenges in many areas, including treatment of waste, resource recovery and disposal. Increasingly Governments are looking at opportunities to recover value from waste that cannot be recycled and in a number of countries attention on energy recovery, particularly heat has increased. This development of policy at national and local level is one of the most important influences on the recovery of energy from solid waste, together with barriers to procurement and energy use. Waste management policy and the drivers for development of waste management are summarised in Table 1 and discussed in the section below. A key role of the proposed work for Task 36 will be to examine how these policy differences influence the development of energy from waste, particularly recovery of heat and integration with other materials recovery and waste treatment processes. |