Organic Waste Feed
Organic Waste Feedstocks
to Energy
Namık Ak
Department of Energy Systems
Engineering, Sirnak University, Sirnak, Turkey
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Abstract: Waste-to-energy
(WTE) technologies convert waste matter into various forms of fuel that can be
used to supply energy. Waste feedstocks can include municipal solid
waste (MSW); forest and wood industry wastes including bark, chips, sawdust,
hardboard dust, mud from paper industry and raw cork; agricultural waste, such
as crop silage and livestock manure; industrial waste from coal mining, lumber
mills, or other facilities; and even the gases that are naturally produced
within landfills. There are four major methods for conversion of organic wastes
to synthetic fuels: (1) hydrogenation, (2) pyrolysis, (3) gasification, and (4)
bioconversion. Biomass thermo-chemical conversion technologies such as
pyrolysis and gasification are certainly not the most important options at
present; combustion is responsible for over 97% of the world’s bio-energy
production. Some processes such as pyrolysis, gasification, anaerobic digestion
and alcohol production have widely been applied to biomass in order to obtain
its energy content.
[Namık Ak. Organic Waste Feedstocks to Energy. Life
Sci J 2013;10(7s):233-241] (ISSN:1097-8135).http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 36
Keywords: Waste
feedstock; Energy; Conversion; Waste management
