Materials Balance for Municipal Solid-Waste Management
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Environmental Engineering
- Vol. 124 (1) , 67-75
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0733-9372(1998)124:1(67)
Abstract
A spreadsheet model MSWFLOW was developed as an accounting procedure for determining impacts of management decisions on the physical scale and productive outputs of a municipal solid-waste system. The model tracks the disposition of 50 different waste products and includes source reduction, recovery (recycling and composting), waste-to-energy (WTE) combustion, and landfilling. Outputs from the calculations include mass and volume of waste generated, collected, and diverted by source reduction or recovery; physical scale (daily mass and/or volume) of the recovery and combustion facilities; landfilled mass and associated volume requirement; potential (maximum) annual landfill gas production; and net electrical power production from the combustion facility. The spreadsheet was demonstrated by evaluations of several alternative management strategies for municipal solid waste from a typical U.S. city with a population of 100,000.Keywords
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