Open AccessFeasibility Study on Solid Waste to Useful Energy
Author(s) -
Anurag Gupta,
Kumar Ratnakar,
D. Ganeshwar Rao,
Sharma Ajay Kumar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/1116/1/012059
Subject(s) - municipal solid waste , waste management , industrialisation , fossil fuel , environmental pollution , population , sustainable development , resource (disambiguation) , business , solid waste management , natural resource economics , pollution , cleaner production , waste to energy , circular economy , environmental planning , environmental science , environmental protection , engineering , economics , ecology , computer network , demography , sociology , computer science , market economy , biology
Solid waste management becomes a major challenge in a country with increasing population and simultaneously striving for economic development. Many studies indicate that solid waste generation rate is influenced to a large extent by the level of industrialisation, habits of public and climatic conditions. Presently world’s more than 50% population resides in urban areas. The outmoded methods used there for solid waste management are neither efficient nor environment friendly. Solid waste may become a precious resource by adapting an appropriate waste management method and the rightly controlling the resulting environmental pollution. It may be converted into an effective fuel to act as the urban sustainable energy of tomorrow. Harnessing the useful energy from the solid waste effectively ultimately would contribute in improving the country’s economy. The fast depleting fossil fuels and their ever-increasing demand further reinforce the importance of energy from alternate sources and if this alternate source is solid waste, it will be like striking two birds with an arrow. The present study focuses on the sustainable treatment of solid waste disposal and explores several methods to harness energy from it. The authors have carried out this study in a University Campus.