Municipal Solid Waste

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Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), also known as municipal waste, is a major potential feedstock for future use in biorefineries.

Issues/Concepts

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)

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."

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