The huge amount of wastes produced by modern and developed countries involves important aspects for the economical, social and technical fields and also for the environment. For this reason different technologies have been proposed to trying to reduce the impact of waste management and disposal. Generally waste management system consists of different steps like selective collection, recycling and reuse operation, energy recovery from waste and landfilling. A new technology proposed for thermal waste treatment is the Plasma Pyrolysis Vetrification. This system seems to have interesting perspective due to the possibility of thermal treatment of dangerouse slag or waste producing inactivate vetrified substances that can be landfilled or used as building materials with no impact for the environment. In this study, the effect of the application of a Plasma Pyrolysis Vetrification plant to an existing waste management system was evaluated with a Life Cycle Assessment analysis. All the activities connected to the existing system have been carefully analyzed by collecting a large quantity of experimental data. Some assumptions have been made in particular on the PPV plant performance. LCA analysis results illustrates how the environmental benefits arising from the adoption of the new technology, concerns only few aspect of the whole system.

Document Life cycle assessment of a PPV plant applied to an existing SUW management system

DI MARIA, Francesco;SAETTA, Stefano Antonio;
2003

Abstract

The huge amount of wastes produced by modern and developed countries involves important aspects for the economical, social and technical fields and also for the environment. For this reason different technologies have been proposed to trying to reduce the impact of waste management and disposal. Generally waste management system consists of different steps like selective collection, recycling and reuse operation, energy recovery from waste and landfilling. A new technology proposed for thermal waste treatment is the Plasma Pyrolysis Vetrification. This system seems to have interesting perspective due to the possibility of thermal treatment of dangerouse slag or waste producing inactivate vetrified substances that can be landfilled or used as building materials with no impact for the environment. In this study, the effect of the application of a Plasma Pyrolysis Vetrification plant to an existing waste management system was evaluated with a Life Cycle Assessment analysis. All the activities connected to the existing system have been carefully analyzed by collecting a large quantity of experimental data. Some assumptions have been made in particular on the PPV plant performance. LCA analysis results illustrates how the environmental benefits arising from the adoption of the new technology, concerns only few aspect of the whole system.
2003
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