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What is the unit generation rate for residential waste typically expressed in?
What is the unit generation rate for residential waste typically expressed in?
What is a primary purpose of mechanical treatment at Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs)?
What is a primary purpose of mechanical treatment at Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs)?
Which of the following materials can be classified into subfractions?
Which of the following materials can be classified into subfractions?
What weight measurement is often used for reporting waste quantities?
What weight measurement is often used for reporting waste quantities?
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What is one of the technological process factors involved in composting?
What is one of the technological process factors involved in composting?
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Which type of waste includes household waste, garden waste, and hazardous waste?
Which type of waste includes household waste, garden waste, and hazardous waste?
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What characterizes material fractions in waste?
What characterizes material fractions in waste?
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What initial process is recommended for extracting glass and paper fine fibers?
What initial process is recommended for extracting glass and paper fine fibers?
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Which of the following steps does not occur in the waste management process?
Which of the following steps does not occur in the waste management process?
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What is the largest contributor to waste generation in Denmark?
What is the largest contributor to waste generation in Denmark?
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Which of the following describes a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF)?
Which of the following describes a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF)?
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What is one of the primary goals when treating waste?
What is one of the primary goals when treating waste?
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Which of the following types of thermal treatment is NOT mentioned?
Which of the following types of thermal treatment is NOT mentioned?
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Which of the following is NOT a factor that affects the definition of waste?
Which of the following is NOT a factor that affects the definition of waste?
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How many categories of municipal waste are recognized?
How many categories of municipal waste are recognized?
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What does the first step in the EU waste strategy emphasize?
What does the first step in the EU waste strategy emphasize?
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What is the first step in the composting plant design process?
What is the first step in the composting plant design process?
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Which step in anaerobic digestion involves the collection of biogas?
Which step in anaerobic digestion involves the collection of biogas?
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Which process is NOT involved in the formation of biogas?
Which process is NOT involved in the formation of biogas?
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What does the lower heating value (LHV) indicate?
What does the lower heating value (LHV) indicate?
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Which of the following statements accurately describes gasification?
Which of the following statements accurately describes gasification?
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What is a common outcome from incineration?
What is a common outcome from incineration?
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Which benefit is associated with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)?
Which benefit is associated with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)?
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What form of coal is typically produced from bottom ash?
What form of coal is typically produced from bottom ash?
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Study Notes
Waste Engineering Introduction
- Waste management steps: generation, collection, transport, and treatment.
- Generation/production refers to the source, sorting, and collection of the waste, usually before management.
- Waste treatment can occur at transport stations via mechanical processes like compacting or shredding.
- Treatment aims to reduce odor, volume, and impurities.
- Thermal treatment types include incineration and gasification/pyrolysis.
- Biological treatment includes composting and biogasification.
- Waste utilization methods include land application, construction materials, and fuel production.
- Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) plants process and recover recyclable materials from mixed waste.
Waste Management in Denmark
- Denmark produces 12 million tons of waste annually.
- Construction and demolition waste is the largest contributor (40%), followed by households (29%).
- Residential waste categories include household, garden, bulky, and hazardous household waste.
Solid Waste Issues
- Municipal solid waste has 20 categories.
- Main solid waste issues include space issues, collection challenges, health concerns, toxicity, differences in waste management systems and costs of handling.
- The EU waste strategy prioritizes prevention first and disposal (landfill) last.
Waste Characterization
- Waste characterization faces challenges: spatial variability, temporal changes, and uncertainties from sample mixtures.
- Characterization methods include physical, chemical, and performance testing.
- A disc screen is used to characterize organic waste.
Sub-sampling Organic Household Waste
- The process involves steps including shredding, mixing, and drying.
- It details the proportion of the various parts of the process in kilograms.
Waste Definition
- Waste categories are broad classes of waste with common characteristics, such as residential, commercial, institutional, and construction & demolition waste.
- Waste types are subclasses of waste categories with similar source and composition characteristics, like household waste, garden waste, bulky waste, and hazardous household waste.
- Waste quantities are commonly measured by weight or volume.
- Generation rates are essential parameters for waste management calculations, given as a quantity of waste per defined time frame and unit (e.g., kg of waste per year/person, kg per week/household).
Waste Minimization and Recycling/Prevention
- Waste minimization aims for the best reduction in waste production.
- Unit generation rates, in a weight measure, specify the quantity of the waste by a given unit of time and other key characteristics.
- Mechanical waste treatment utilizes technologies such as separation, reduction in size, and compacting at MRFs.
- These methods aim to facilitate handling and transport, improve treatment performance, prepare material for treatment, and sort recyclables.
- Composting involves controlling several technological factors/process factors and parameters, such as oxygen content, particle size, and aeration, pH, biodegradation, temperature, moisture content, and nutrients.
Composting and Anaerobic Digestion
- Composting steps include degradation, stabilization, and curing.
- Nitrogen transformation in composting involves microbial stages from organic waste to nitrates and nitrites which are converted back to nitrogen gas in anaerobic conditions.
- Hydrolysis occurs via extracellular enzymes on carbohydrates/lipids/proteins, is part of biogas formation.
- Biogas production stages are Hydrolysis, Fermentation, Acetogenesis, and Methanogenesis.
- Factors determining methane potential are Oxidation state and degradability.
- Anaerobic digestion system steps (AD): reception & storage, pretreatment, digestion, gas collection/utilization, digestate management.
Energy and Waste Treatment
- Incineration yields energy and heating, with percentages of 6% energy and 24% heating.
- LHV and HHV: energy content from combustion, LHV considers water evaporation only; HHV calculates total potential energy.
- Pyrolysis is thermal degradation of carbon in the absence of oxidizing agents.
- Gasification is partial oxidation of carbon in the presence of oxidizing agents.
- Combustion is the full oxidation of carbon.
- Air pollution control (APC) systems address dust removal, acid neutralization, etc., in incineration.
- Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) involves energy recovery, material recovery, heat recovery, and stored CO2.
Solid Residue and Ash
- Incineration produces residues like fly ash, bottom ash, wastewater, sludge, and other neutralization products and grate sifting/boiler ash and economizer ash.
- Bottom ash is a mix of metals and other solid residues, formed during combustion.
- Fly ash is collected via electrostatic precipitators.
- Fly ash and bottom ash treatment can involve extraction, separation, thermal treatment, chemical stabilization and solidification.
- Bottom ash utilization potential per ton of waste is 0.25.
Air-Pollution Control
- Air-pollution control (APC) methods include electrostatic precipitators, fabric filters, wet scrubbers, dry or semi-dry systems, dust filters, activated carbon, SNCR and SCR catalyst for NOX removal, activated carbon for dioxin, and carbon capture-amine for CO2.
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Explore the fundamentals of waste management, covering key processes from generation to treatment. Learn about various methods such as thermal and biological treatments, and the role of Materials Recovery Facilities (MRF) in recycling. Dive into specific case studies, including waste management practices in Denmark.
