1. Exergoenvironmental analysis of a waste-based Integrated Combined Cycle (WICC) for heat and power production.
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Casas-Ledón, Yannay, Spaudo, Freddy, and Arteaga-Pérez, Luis E.
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SUSTAINABLE development , *EXERGY , *ECOLOGY , *MUNICIPAL solid waste incinerator residues , *SOLID waste management , *COMBINED cycle power plants - Abstract
This paper investigates the exergoenvironmental aspects of a Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW)-fueled Gasification Integrated Combined Cycle (WICC). Accordingly, the environmental impacts associated to exergy destruction, total environmental impact, exergoenvironmental factor and the electricity environmental impacts (EEI) are studied. A sensitivity analysis is carried out in order to have a good insight into WICC plant performance, focusing on MSW environmental impacts (0.1–0.9 millipoints (mPts)/kg MSW) and considering only CO 2 emissions as pollutant formation. The results show that the largest environmental impacts are associated to gasification and are mainly caused by chemical exergy destruction (44%) and pollutants formation (61%). The highest total environmental impact (B tot ) corresponds to the highest MSW impact, due to the impacts produced by the changes in the specific exergy of the streams. Discarding CH 4 and CO from pollutants formation, reduced the B tot and EEI by nearly 55%. Furthermore, the calculated EEI values (13.5 mPts/kWh) are lower than that reported for conventional energy systems (i.e. Natural gas: 22–26 mPts/kWh). Therefore, this technology could be a promising alternative for energetic valorization of MSW in the Chilean conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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