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Waste of various kinds can be used for bioenergy.
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Municipal Solid Waste
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), also known as municipal waste, is a major potential feedstock for future use in biorefineries.
Issues/Concepts
Events
- 31 May – 3 June 2011, Moscow, Russia: WasteTech-2011: The 7th International Trade Fair on Waste Management, Recycling and Environmental Technology (PDF). For more information and pre-registration form visit the event website. (Themes: biogas, biomass, technologies, waste, wastewater)
- 2-5 March 2010, New Delhi, India: Methane to Markets. (Themes: agriculture, greenhouse gases, methane, municipal solid waste)
- 12-13 April 2010, New Delhi, India: Algae Biofuel Workshop 2010. (Themes: algae, biofuel, biogas, food vs. fuel, second-generation biofuels, waste)
- 12-15 April 2010, San Diego, California, USA: 25th Annual BioCycle West Coast Conference 2010. (Themes: anaerobic digestion, composting, municipal solid waste)
- 4-6 May 2010, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA: 2010 International BIOMASS Conference & Expo. (Themes: crop residues, energy crops, wood residues, livestock and poultry wastes, MSW)
- 5-6 May 2010 Bremen, Germany: Waste to Energy: International Exhibition & Conference for Energy from Waste and Biomass. (Themes: anaerobic digestion, biogas, biomass, bio-methane gas distribution, pyrolysis, sewage, waste-to-energy)
- 17-19 May 2010, San Diego, CA, USA: Algae World Summit 2010. (Themes: algae, markets, technology, wastewater)
- 20-21 May 2010, Shenyang, China: China Bioenergy Technology and Investment Summit. (Themes: policy, technologies, waste feedstocks)
- 30 June - 1 July 2010, Brussels, Belgium: 2010 AEBIOM European Biomass Conference and RENEXPO. (Themes: bioenergy, markets, policy, sustainability, energy crops, wood residues, MSW and more)
- 17-19 May 2009, San Diego, California, USA: 2009 Waste-to-Fuels Conference & Trade Show. (Themes: agricultural waste, energy recovery, landfill gas, Municipal Solid Waste, waste)
- 16 November 2009, Washington, D.C., USA: The Energy Conversation - OMEGA: A Call to Action to Produce the Next Generation of Biofuels NOW. (Themes: algae, municipal solid waste, next generation biofuels)
- 14-16 October 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA: Energy from Biomass and Waste. (Themes: biomass, waste)
- 10-11 December 2008, Bremen, Germany: Waste to Energy. (Themes: waste, technology)
News
- British Airways to buy jet fuel from city waste, 16 February 2010 by Reuters: "British Airways will start sourcing a small portion of its jet fuel from municipal waste from 2014, under a deal with U.S.-based biofuel company Solena Group."
- "The plant would convert 500,000 tonnes of waste annually into 16 million gallons of green jet fuel."
- "The aviation fuel will be produced from gasification of the waste into a so-called syngas which is then converted by the Fischer Tropsch process into liquid fuel."[1]
- In Search of Wildlife-friendly Biofuels: Could Native Prairie Plants Be the Answer, 29 September 2009 by NewsWise/Michigan Technological University: "The unintended consequence of crop-based biofuels may be the loss of wildlife habitat, particularly that of the birds who call this country’s grasslands home, say researchers from Michigan Technological University and The Nature Conservancy."
- "What’s the solution? There are at least two ways to produce bioenergy without destroying wildlife [and habitat], the researchers say. One is to use biomass sources that don’t require additional land, such as agricultural residues and other wastes from municipal, animal, food and forestry industries."[2]
- Trash Becomes Ethanol in Major Canadian Alt-Fuel Move, 15 December 2008 by The Cutting Edge:
- Canada's "Edmonton has an aggressive trash reduction program with 60 percent of all solid waste being recycled or composted. What’s new is that they intend to improve that figure by taking an additional 30 percent of their waste stream and making ethanol."
- "The city expects to put 75,000 tons of waste into the process annually and get back nearly seven and a half million gallons of ethanol. The payback on the $70 million investment should come very quickly, even with the currently depressed oil prices — perhaps in as little as seven to ten years." [3]
- City plans to convert human waste to energy, 10 September 2008 by Reuters: "San Antonio [Texas] unveiled a deal on Tuesday that will make it the first U.S. city to harvest methane gas from human waste on a commercial scale and turn it into clean-burning fuel."
- Municipal waste to produce ethanol by 2011, 21 July 2008 in the Financial Times: "The world's first commercially produced ethanol from municipal waste will be on sale by early 2011, according to Ineos, the privately-held chemicals group backing the technology."
- "The costs of the process "stack up very well, and are cost competitive against any other approach to producing ethanol."
- "The EU's target is to get to 10 per cent of its road fuel coming from biofuels by 2020...."That implies that, relying on the Ineos process alone, more than half of all the EU's organic municipal waste would have to be used for fuel to meet the target."
- Army to turn trash into power in Iraq, 13 March 2008 by the Associated Press: The U.S. Army "is preparing to deploy to Iraq two 4-ton biomass refineries designed to turn piles of trash into electricity. Each can run for 20 hours on a ton of trash, producing enough power to light a small village."
- The so-called "tactical biorefineries", built by Purdue University and Defense Life Sciences are "part of the Army's push to reduce troops' diesel fuel use in Iraq, where convoys are frequently targeted by insurgents."
Sewage
Sewage (liquid waste) can be used to generate methane/biogas.
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