Waste heat recovery from a landfill gas-fired power plant

Waste treatment and management is a certain challenge especially in areas with high population density. One of the options for waste treatment is landfilling, where the amount of municipal waste also produces landfill gas through anaerobic digestion. The heating value of the landfill gas is high enough to use it as a fuel in combustion processes, e.g. in internal combustion engines (ICES) to produce electric power.In Ano Liosia, Athens (Greece) up to 6000 tons of waste are landfilled every day and the landfill gas is used in an ICE power station directly at the site of the landfill. The power station consists of 15 ICEs and has an installed capacity of 23.5 MW. The major advantages of using ICE for power generation are the high electrical efficiency of ICEs and their fast load response. However, more than 50     «

Waste treatment and management is a certain challenge especially in areas with high population density. One of the options for waste treatment is landfilling, where the amount of municipal waste also produces landfill gas through anaerobic digestion. The heating value of the landfill gas is high enough to use it as a fuel in combustion processes, e.g. in internal combustion engines (ICES) to produce electric power.In Ano Liosia, Athens (Greece) up to 6000 tons of waste are landfilled every day a...     »