Life cycle assessment of waste to energy micro-pyrolysis system: Case study fora n Italia town

Waste disposal represents an important aspect of the policies of developed countries politics. It is well known that waste management, entails several social, economical and environmental aspects. Many different technical solution have been proposed and evaluated, more or less complicated, from a social and economic point of view, but the environmental burden linked to these solutions still remains an open problem not definitively resolved yet. One of the most promising ways for investigating and comparing the environmental consequences connected to different human activities seems to be represented by the LCA analysis. In this work the LCA analysis of a micro- pyrolysis with micro-gas turbine waste to energy plant, has been performed with the aid of a commercial simulation code. The scenario analyzed regards a small, isolated, Italian town. The comparison between the current and proposed case has also been carried out.