Comparative study of municipal solid waste incinerator fly ash reutilization in China: Environmental and economic performances

Liu, Fang; Liu, Hanqiao; Yang, Na; Wang, Lei

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105541

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“…The environmental protection tax of corresponding pollutants is not paid for enterprises that dispose of solid waste in China and used to estimate externality costs. Missed data on externality cost are mainly obtained from the study . Detailed technical descriptions, life-cycle inventories, and data are shown in the Supporting Information(PDF and XLSX, Sheet A).…”

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“…Details are in Supporting Information, Section B and XLXS, Sheets C and D. Estimation of WLC is based on the standard BSI ISO 15686-5 . Externality costs were calculated using eq () …”

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“…To explore the technical transition strategies and pollution migration in different media from incineration to spent AC regeneration, pollutants that affect externality cost are divided into four impact categories, that is, climate change–human health–water quality–indeterminate , according to information in Supporting Information, Section A. The working procedures of energy–environment–economy assessments, as well as the corresponding relationships with data in our manuscript and Excel file (Supporting Information) are shown in Supporting Information,Figure S4.…”

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“…Indicators, such as break-even years and net present value (NPV), could provide insights for decision/policymakers from economic aspect. Nevertheless, eLCC is responsible for only internalized or expected-to-be internalized cash flows, ignoring the potential environmental externalities. LCA and eLCC have been widely used for environmental and economic analysis. , However, not all the analysis results of LCA and eLCC were better or worse for one technology than for another .…”

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“…Nevertheless, eLCC is responsible for only internalized or expected-to-be internalized cash flows, ignoring the potential environmental externalities. LCA and eLCC have been widely used for environmental and economic analysis. , However, not all the analysis results of LCA and eLCC were better or worse for one technology than for another . In this study, whole life costing (WLC) defined in BSI ISO 15686-5 (2008) is used to integrate both environmental and economic aspects by adding the externality costs (i.e., the monetary value of environmental pollutants for each technology) to the eLCC.…”

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Environment–Energy–Economy Analysis and Related Technical Transition Strategies for Spent Activated Carbon Regeneration in China

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ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng.

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Spent activated carbon (AC) regeneration attracts growing interests due to the increased waste amounts and limited AC resources. Herein, environment–energy–economy performances of four spent AC regeneration technologies demonstrated in China were compared with conventional incineration via life cycle assessment (LCA), energy-efficiency analysis (EEA), and environmental life-cycle costing. Their energy efficiencies are lower than 42%, which should be improved. Tradeoffs between environmental and economic performances found such as tunnel kiln regeneration technology were handled by integrating both performances with emission monetization model by internalizing environmental externalities as economic metric. Results indicated that microwave and rotary-kiln regeneration are preferred and break even in 2 years even with externalities. Potential pollution migration (in air–water–human medium) analysis illustrates that technical-sustainable transition from spent AC incineration to regeneration may relieve GHG emissions but add human risks due to dioxins and heavy metal emitted. Regeneration rate and energy use are sensitive to environmental and economic result.

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“…Details are in Supporting Information, Section B and XLXS, Sheets C and D. Estimation of WLC is based on the standard BSI ISO 15686-5 . Externality costs were calculated using eq () …”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%