Waste-to-Energy and Biofuel Production

This assignment explores strategies for implementing waste-to-energy (WTE) systems. It examines various WTE technologies like gasification, combustion, and anaerobic digestion, addressing challenges in waste management, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy demand. The document analyzes successful supply chain models using green pellets for heating and biogas production. Furthermore, it delves into the role of policy makers in implementing WTE strategies, highlighting financial, technological, institutional, and regulatory barriers and opportunities. The assignment also investigates a new concept for enhancing energy recovery from agricultural residues through a hybrid system combining pyrolysis and anaerobic digestion.

Running head: ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
Environmental Engineering Management
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Strategies on implementation of waste-to-energy (WTE)

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The several essentials of the state art were to deal with the WTE that includes the
different technologies that deals with the gasification, combustion and the anaerobic digestion. I
need to solve the different dilemma related to the waste management, emission of the green
house and energy demand. I have understood the successful lessons on the supply chain that has
a green pellet that makes a heating supply of the of the wastes that may be used for the
production of the bio gas. I have seen the policy makers to address the concerns of the public that
deals primarily with the implementation and the promulgation of the strategies based on supply
chain management. In order to encounter the barriers there is a need for the financial,
technological and the various institutional and the regulatory aspects that when added in the list
of the opportunities creates an informational dissemination (Cucchiella, D’Adamo and Gastaldi
2014).
Fig1: management system
(Cucchiella, D’Adamo and Gastaldi 2014)

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EMS framework
( created by author)

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Reference
Cucchiella, F., D’Adamo, I. and Gastaldi, M., 2014. Sustainable management of waste-to-energy
facilities. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 33, pp.719-728.

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A new concept for enhancing the energy recovery from the agricultural residues
It is evident that the anaerobic digestion of the plant is based on the residues that are
converted into digestate and the biogas. A thorough investigation reveals that the feasibility is to
combine the pyrolysis process and the anaerobic digestion that might increases the level of the
energy recovery. The pyrolysis products yield the biochar that I have found through the findings
from the other relevant studies of the investigated pyrolysis and their digestion. There is a need
to balance the energy in the coupled anaerobic digestion that is based primarily on the pyrolysis
process. Utilization of the liquid biofuels and the gas has been eventually derived from the
digestate pyrolysis that has an electrical production that can be achieved by adding with it the
AD (Feng and Lin 2017). The hybrid results in the system that has been revealed has eventually
helped me to understand the different pyrolysis of the oil that needs to be increased in order to
make the comparison stand out.
BiocharDryingPelleizing

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EMS framework
(created by author)

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Reference
Feng, Q. and Lin, Y., 2017. Integrated processes of anaerobic digestion and pyrolysis for higher
bioenergy recovery from lignocellulosic biomass: A brief review. Renewable and Sustainable
Energy Reviews.