Cost of organic waste technologies: A case study for New Jersey
This paper evaluates the benefits of converting food waste and manure to biogas and/or fertilizer, while focusing on four available waste treatment technologies: direct combustion, landfilling, composting, and anaerobic digestion. These four alternative technologies were simulated using municipal-le...
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doaj-6709477b01554d8abd02df58d91d065e2020-11-24T23:10:29ZengAIMS PressAIMS Energy2333-83342015-09-013345046210.3934/energy.2015.3.450201503450Cost of organic waste technologies: A case study for New JerseyGal Hochman0Shisi Wang1Qing Li2Paul D. Gottlieb3Fuqing Xu4Yebo Li5Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USARutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USARutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USARutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USAThe Ohio State University, Ohio 4469The Ohio State University, Ohio 4469This paper evaluates the benefits of converting food waste and manure to biogas and/or fertilizer, while focusing on four available waste treatment technologies: direct combustion, landfilling, composting, and anaerobic digestion. These four alternative technologies were simulated using municipal-level data on food waste and manure in New Jersey. The criteria used to assess the four technologies include technological productivity, economic benefits, and impact on land scarcity. Anaerobic digestion with gas collection has the highest technological productivity; using anaerobic digesters would supply electricity to nearly ten thousand families in New Jersey. In terms of economic benefits, the landfill to gas method is the least costly method of treating waste. In comparison, direct combustion is by far the most costly method of all four waste-to-energy technologies.http://www.aimspress.com/energy/article/429/fulltext.htmlOrganic wastemanurecombustionland-fill gasaerobic compostinganaerobic digestion<b></b> |
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Cost of organic waste technologies: A case study for New Jersey |
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This paper evaluates the benefits of converting food waste and manure to biogas and/or fertilizer, while focusing on four available waste treatment technologies: direct combustion, landfilling, composting, and anaerobic digestion. These four alternative technologies were simulated using municipal-level data on food waste and manure in New Jersey. The criteria used to assess the four technologies include technological productivity, economic benefits, and impact on land scarcity. Anaerobic digestion with gas collection has the highest technological productivity; using anaerobic digesters would supply electricity to nearly ten thousand families in New Jersey. In terms of economic benefits, the landfill to gas method is the least costly method of treating waste. In comparison, direct combustion is by far the most costly method of all four waste-to-energy technologies. |
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Organic waste manure combustion land-fill gas aerobic composting anaerobic digestion<b></b> |
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