By re-designing the plant, the steam produced from burning the trash is channeled into the large turbine section to generates electricity. Estimated about 500 to 600 kWh of electricity can be generated for every ton of waste incinerated. Thus, through the incineration of about 2,200 tons per day of waste able produce around 1200 MWh of electrical energy. Approximately 1MW electricity can power up 1,000 homes in India. It’s a way of providing electricity to everyone as well as keeping the municipal solid waste. The most modern plants these days have a better procedure whereby all the trash sent will be sorted out before burning. All the materials properly sorted before burning it and can be co-existed together with the recycling where all recyclable items removed before the trash sent to the incinerator section. This way, the hazardous part is avoided as it only burns the not recyclable materials for power. Evolution of the technologies can be used to turn all the municipal solid waste into electricity which will contributes in two ways – sustainable waste management, clean environment and free electricity. The practice of burning waste-to-energy cause lesser air pollution than coal plants, but relatively more than natural gas plants. The processing release less carbon and methane into the thin air. It is a better way compared to having a mountains of waste trash to the landfills or even worse, throw it into the lake or ocean.
Made with FlippingBook - professional solution for displaying marketing and sales documents online