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Cost benefit analysis of composting and anaerobic digestion in a community: A review

Currently, population and urbanisation are rapidly growing which causes a tremendous amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) being generated. The MSW management in Malaysia can be considered relatively poor and disorganised. The most preferred MSW disposal method in Malaysia is through landfilling. To...

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Main Authors: Zulkepli, N. E., Muis, Z. A., Mahmood, N. A. N., Hashim, H., Ho, W. S.
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Language:English
Published: Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC 2017
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TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/80648/1/NurEzrinaZulkepli2017_CostBenefitAnalysisofComposting.pdf
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2016.12.001
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spelling my.utm.806482019-06-27T06:12:37Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/80648/ Cost benefit analysis of composting and anaerobic digestion in a community: A review Zulkepli, N. E. Muis, Z. A. Mahmood, N. A. N. Hashim, H. Ho, W. S. TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Currently, population and urbanisation are rapidly growing which causes a tremendous amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) being generated. The MSW management in Malaysia can be considered relatively poor and disorganised. The most preferred MSW disposal method in Malaysia is through landfilling. To address this and to respond to increasing global environmental concerns, composting and anaerobic digestion have been hailed as an environmentally and economically friendly alternative besides landfilling. By capturing the organic materials from MSW and putting it to a more beneficial use as feedstock for composting and anaerobic digestion sounds very ideal. Focusing on the waste landfilling prevention for a small community, this paper discusses on whether composting or anaerobic digestion might be a feasible alternative to landfilling. Both solutions differ in various aspects. The purpose of this study is to know whether composting or anaerobic digestion is more beneficial by performing cost benefit analysis on both situations. In this study we estimated the cost benefit analysis of three different scenarios. First scenario is the baseline for the current practice of solid waste management where the wastes are dumped to landfill. Second scenario is the installation of composting plant and the third scenario will be estimated on the installation of anaerobic digester. Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/80648/1/NurEzrinaZulkepli2017_CostBenefitAnalysisofComposting.pdf Zulkepli, N. E. and Muis, Z. A. and Mahmood, N. A. N. and Hashim, H. and Ho, W. S. (2017) Cost benefit analysis of composting and anaerobic digestion in a community: A review. Chemical Engineering Transactions, 56 . pp. 1777-1782. ISSN 2283-9216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2016.12.001 DOI:10.3303/CET1756297
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topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Zulkepli, N. E.
Muis, Z. A.
Mahmood, N. A. N.
Hashim, H.
Ho, W. S.
Cost benefit analysis of composting and anaerobic digestion in a community: A review
description Currently, population and urbanisation are rapidly growing which causes a tremendous amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) being generated. The MSW management in Malaysia can be considered relatively poor and disorganised. The most preferred MSW disposal method in Malaysia is through landfilling. To address this and to respond to increasing global environmental concerns, composting and anaerobic digestion have been hailed as an environmentally and economically friendly alternative besides landfilling. By capturing the organic materials from MSW and putting it to a more beneficial use as feedstock for composting and anaerobic digestion sounds very ideal. Focusing on the waste landfilling prevention for a small community, this paper discusses on whether composting or anaerobic digestion might be a feasible alternative to landfilling. Both solutions differ in various aspects. The purpose of this study is to know whether composting or anaerobic digestion is more beneficial by performing cost benefit analysis on both situations. In this study we estimated the cost benefit analysis of three different scenarios. First scenario is the baseline for the current practice of solid waste management where the wastes are dumped to landfill. Second scenario is the installation of composting plant and the third scenario will be estimated on the installation of anaerobic digester.
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author Zulkepli, N. E.
Muis, Z. A.
Mahmood, N. A. N.
Hashim, H.
Ho, W. S.
author_facet Zulkepli, N. E.
Muis, Z. A.
Mahmood, N. A. N.
Hashim, H.
Ho, W. S.
author_sort Zulkepli, N. E.
title Cost benefit analysis of composting and anaerobic digestion in a community: A review
title_short Cost benefit analysis of composting and anaerobic digestion in a community: A review
title_full Cost benefit analysis of composting and anaerobic digestion in a community: A review
title_fullStr Cost benefit analysis of composting and anaerobic digestion in a community: A review
title_full_unstemmed Cost benefit analysis of composting and anaerobic digestion in a community: A review
title_sort cost benefit analysis of composting and anaerobic digestion in a community: a review
publisher Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC
publishDate 2017
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