Electricity generation in Nigeria from municipal solid waste using the Swedish Wasteto-Energy Model

Akhator, P.E.; Obanor, A.I.; Ezemonye, L I N

doi:10.4314/jasem.v20i3.18

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“…Still, little or nothing has been done in this regard due to overdependence on hydroelectric and thermal energy sources. This trend was emphasised by Akhator et al (2016), who noted that conversion of wastes to energy technology is still at infancy stage in Nigeria's power sector, compared to other countries where it has been utilised to generate heat and electricity in commercial quantity for the benefits of their citizens.…”

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“…Electricity generation from waste is sustainable as long as the appropriate technology is utilised. On the issue and concerns of appropriate technology (Akhator et al 2016) noted that conversion of wastes to energy technology is still at infancy stage in Nigeria's power sector compared to other countries where it has been utilised to generate heat and electricity in commercial quantity for the benefits of their citizens.…”

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Conversion of organic wastes to electricity in Nigeria: legal perspective on the challenges and prospects

Olujobi

Ufua

Olokundun

et al. 2021

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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This study explores the need for conversion of wastes to energy for a sustainable power sector and environmental development in Nigeria, to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and to offer incentives for investments in renewable energy sources, and to mitigate the concerns on disposal of hazardous wastes in the country. The study adopts a library-based doctrinal legal research technique with a conceptual approach, relying on existing literature. It explores the potency of existing laws and other legal provisions binding on the practice of waste management to power in Nigeria. Also, it carries out a comparative appraisal of the renewable system through organic wastes to electricity in other countries. The key finding of the study is that if practical measures are taken by the Nigerian government to control waste disposal, it will minimise wastes from the various sources in conformity with the legal and regulatory requirements and this can be utilised to generate electricity. The study proposes a model for converting wastes to electricity to sustain the ever-intensifying demands for energy and to combat ecological issues in Nigeria. The research concludes with recommendations for the fusion of regulations and non-regulatory incentives for conversion of wastes to electricity in Nigeria’s power sector and advocates coherent legal framework on sources of energy with stringent enforcement of energy laws for stable electricity generation and sustainability in Nigeria’s power sector.

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Conversion of organic wastes to electricity in Nigeria: legal perspective on the challenges and prospects

Olujobi

Ufua

Olokundun

et al. 2021

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…Nigeria has an estimated population of over 200 million people with annual Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) generation of about 32 million tonnes (0.438 kg/person/day) [3]. The country has about 14 million tonnes of combustible waste [4]. The country's annual electricity generation potential from MSW was estimated at 26,744 GWh/year [5].…”

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Site Suitability Analysis for Waste to Energy Facility in Onitsha North Local Government Area, Anambra State, Nigeria

Isma'il

2023

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Onitsha North Local Government Area (LGA) in Anambra State is an industrial and commercial city in south eastern Nigeria that is currently facing serious environmental problems resulting from poor solid waste management system. Also, the city is experiencing poor electricity supply at a time of increasing energy demand for domestic and industrial activities. The rate of solid waste generation in the city has increased with rapid urbanisation, population growth and economic expansion. Exploiting the energy potentials of the huge amount of waste generated in the area through Waste to Energy (WtE) technology is an efficient and sustainable waste management strategy that can be deployed in order to boost the energy supply mix in the area. However, the viability of WtE adoption has not been investigated in the study area. As a first and critical step in that direction, this study combined Geographic Information System (GIS) and Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) techniques to identify suitable sites for WtE facility in Onitsha North with a view to determining the viability of adopting WtE in the area. The factors used for multicriteria evaluation are Land use/Land cover, distance from road, distance from surface water, distance from existing dumpsite and slope. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to assign relative weights to these factors. The Weighted Overlay method was used to integrate these factors in ArcGIS environment to produce suitability map for WtE facility in the study area. Results showed that less than 1% and 77% of the study area were found to be moderately suitable and marginally suitable respectively for siting WtE facility; while 21% and 0.33% of the study area were found to be less suitable and not suitable respectively. The study has provided the basic information required for harnessing waste energy potential for sustainable development in Onitsha North. The waste energy potentials can be exploited to provide alternative energy source for industrialisation and economic activities in the area. The WtE will also serve as an alternative efficient waste management strategy in the study area. The combination of GIS and MCDA techniques has proven to be efficient in site suitability analysis, hence it can be applied in solving multicriteria decision problems.

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“…The study had the ability to generate electrical energy from MSW in RCC city is 5.336 MW and 10.568 MW during the years 2012 and 2025 respectively. In [30], two phases are aimed to examine waste-to-energy development and evaluate its success factors respect to modified Sweden's waste-to-energy model in Nigeria for WTE capacity enhancement purpose. The study results were the proposed model able to generate around 2.0 TWh of electricity from about 5.7 million tonnes of waste in its WTE plants in 2014.…”

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A feasibility study of electrical energy generation from municipal solid waste in Iraq: Najaf case study

Anssari¹,

Alkaldy²,

Almudhaffar³

et al. 2020

IJECE

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In several developing countries, the electricity crisis obstructs both socio-economic and technological sustainable evolution. Also, it leads to reducing job availability due to shut down several industries or relocate to neighbouring countries to such an issue. A Najaf City is an important holy and tourist city in the middle of Iraq country. Indeed, waste management in An Najaf City needs to be reconsidered to be used as an energy source. In this article, we investigated and listed the waste quantity which produced recently (one year) respect to waste types and types of content. Data collected from the waste products for one year and are used as a key factor to study the feasibility of generating electrical energy from collected MSWs. The proposed model was simulated and tested respect to cost analysis factor of the suggested power plant by Homer pro simulation software. Results were very encouraging and competitive to the current energy production cost based on the production cost of the Kwh prospective among the conventional methods in Iraq. The proposed scenario provide proper and secure waste proposal technique with low-cost.

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Electricity generation in Nigeria from municipal solid waste using the Swedish Wasteto-Energy Model

Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

Conversion of organic wastes to electricity in Nigeria: legal perspective on the challenges and prospects

Conversion of organic wastes to electricity in Nigeria: legal perspective on the challenges and prospects

Site Suitability Analysis for Waste to Energy Facility in Onitsha North Local Government Area, Anambra State, Nigeria

A feasibility study of electrical energy generation from municipal solid waste in Iraq: Najaf case study

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