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See on Scoop.it – Fostering Sustainable Development The tremendous increase in the quantum and diversity of waste materials generated by [...]
March 17, 2013
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Reblogged from Sustainability Writer: I recently wrote this case study about the Mariannhill Landfill Conservancy in KwaZulu-Natal, South [...]
July 18, 2012
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Reblogged from JunkScience.com: Thanks to new regulations, the emission of such toxic chemicals from waste processing has been reduced a [...]
May 2, 2012
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Reduction in the volume and mass of solid waste is a crucial issue especially in the light of limited availability of final disposal sites in [...]
April 2, 2012
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The global market for WTE technologies was valued at US$19.9bn in 2008. This has been forecasted to increase to US$26.2bn by 2014. While the [...]
December 6, 2011
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Palm Oil processing gives rise to highly polluting waste-water, known as Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME), which is often discarded in disposal [...]
November 8, 2011
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Gasification with pure oxygen or hydrogen Gasification with pure oxygen or pure hydrogen (or hydrogasification) may provide better alternatives [...]
October 21, 2011
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With Indonesia’s recovery from the Asian financial crisis of 1998, energy consumption has grown rapidly in past decade. The priority of the [...]
October 11, 2011
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Renewable energy systems have been used in Jordan since early 1970s. Infact, Jordan has been a pioneer in renewable energy promotion in the [...]
October 6, 2011
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According to a recent study, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region offers almost 45 percent of the world’s total energy potential from [...]
September 30, 2011
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Southeast Asia, with its abundant biomass resources, holds a strategic position in the global biomass energy atlas. There is immense potential of [...]
September 30, 2011
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Major components of Waste-to-Energy Processes Front end MSW pre-processing is used to prepare MSW for treatment and separate any recyclables [...]
September 24, 2011
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The production of biofuels from lignocellulosic feedstocks can be achieved through two very different processing routes. They are: Biochemical [...]
September 9, 2011
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A wide variety of conversion methods are available for realizing the potential of waste as an energy source, ranging from very simple systems for [...]
August 25, 2011
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Around 130 million tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) are combusted annually in over 600 waste-to-energy (WTE) facilities globally that [...]
August 6, 2011
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Like any developing country, the Philippines is facing a formidable challenge of fostering sustainable energy options to support the energy [...]
July 24, 2011
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Biomass is one of the most important sources of renewable energy in Malaysia. The National Biofuel Policy, launched in 2006 encourages the use of [...]
July 15, 2011
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Traditional methods of farm waste management are unscientific and have several negative externalities associated with them. Being the emitter of [...]
July 7, 2011
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The increasing clamor for energy and satisfying it with a combination of conventional and renewable resources is a big challenge. Accompanying [...]
June 10, 2011
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Biomass energy projects provide major business opportunities, environmental benefits, and rural development. Feedstocks can be obtained from a [...]
May 24, 2011
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First-generation biofuels (produced primarily from food crops such as grains, sugar beet and oil seeds) are limited in their ability to achieve [...]
May 12, 2011
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The high rate of population growth, urbanization and economic expansion in Middle Eastern region is not only accelerating consumption rates but [...]
May 2, 2011
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Biomass energy technology is inherently flexible. The variety of technological options available means that it can be applied at a small, [...]
April 23, 2011
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Biomass is the material derived from plants that use sunlight to grow which include plant and animal material such as wood from forests, material [...]
April 21, 2011
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This article makes an attempt at collating some of the most prominent issues associated with biomass technologies and provides plausible [...]
April 9, 2011
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Renewable energy in South Africa Issue 4 2010 / 13 December 2010 / Salman Zafar, Renewable Energy Advisor South Africa, the most industrialised [...]
April 4, 2011
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The issues enumerated below are not geography-specific and are usually a matter of concern for most of the biomass energy projects: Large Project [...]
March 27, 2011
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Combined Heat and Power (CHP) is the simultaneous generation of multiple forms of useful energy (usually mechanical and thermal) in a single, [...]
March 25, 2011
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Anaerobic digestion is a favorable technological solution which degrades a substantial part of the organic matter contained in the sludge and [...]
March 23, 2011
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Depending on the use of the biogas, most trace components must be removed from the biogas. Water vapour can be particularly hazardous because it [...]
March 20, 2011
