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Municipal Solid Waste

Energy Recovery from the Organic Fraction Based on Anaerobic Digestion

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Abstract

Municipal solid waste production has increased over the past years. The European Union Waste Framework Directive establishes different hierarchy levels for its management, where prevention and recycling appear as the most convenient management strategies for the organic fraction of MSW. This fraction can be either recycled by composting or by anaerobic digestion followed or not by composting. Anaerobic digestion has the advantage of producing energy instead of consuming it and it is widely described in this chapter. First, a revision of the state of the art of its implementation at full scale is carried out. Then, a detailed description of the environmental and operational factors affecting the process performance is described. Finally, methods for improving the yields of the anaerobic digestion process are considered, which includes biological and physical pre-treatment technologies together with the basis and possibilities of anaerobic co-digestion.

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Abbreviations

AD:

Anaerobic digestion

AcoD:

Anaerobic co-digestion

CHP:

Combined heat and power unit

EU:

European Union

HRT:

Hydraulic retention time

LCFA:

Long chain fatty acid

MAD:

Mesophilic anaerobic digestion

MSW:

Municipal solid waste

MBT:

Mechanical–biological treatment

OLR:

Organic loading rate

RDF:

Refuse derived fuel

SOF:

Stabilized organic fraction

SRT:

Solid retention time

TAD:

Thermophilic anaerobic digestion

UASB:

Upflow anaerobic sludge blanket

VFA:

Volatile fatty acid

VS:

Volatile solids

WWTP:

Wastewater treatment plant

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Astals, S., Romero-Güiza, M., Mata-Alvarez, J. (2013). Municipal Solid Waste. In: Ferreira, G. (eds) Alternative Energies. Advanced Structured Materials, vol 34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40680-5_1

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