Exergy Life Cycle Assessment of a Waste-to-Energy Plant
| Autor: | Emanuela Colombo, Matteo Vincenzo Rocco |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Exergy
Engineering Power station Waste management business.industry 020209 energy 02 engineering and technology Exergy Analysis 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Waste-to-energy plant Waste-to-energy Energy (all) Electricity generation Energy(all) Exergy Life Cycle Assessment Input-Output analysis Waste-to-Energy 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Exergy efficiency Electricity business Life-cycle assessment 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Energy Procedia. 104:562-567 |
| ISSN: | 1876-6102 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.egypro.2016.12.095 |
| Popis: | In this paper, thermodynamic performances of a Waste-to-Energy power plant are evaluated by means of Exergy Life Cycle Assessment (ELCA). Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis is proposed as the computational structure of ELCA, allowing to account for the embodied exergy of electricity production and for the Exergy Return on (non-renewable Exergy) Investment (ExROI). Results of the analysis reveal that non-renewable resources requirement of the WtE plant is not negligible. Nonetheless, the plant is able to produce a net amount of electricity that pays back such resources requirements about a hundred times. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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