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Techno-economic assessment of turning gasification-based waste char into energy: A case study in South-Tyrol.

Published in Waste management (New York, N.Y.)

In the South-Tyrol region (Italy), 46 gasifiers are currently operating and €200,000 are annually paid to dispose of as a waste 1300 tons of char. Therefore, there is a considerable interest in finding alternatives for the valorization of this solid by-product. The aim of this work is to assess the potential of char as energy source and to compare ...

Health effects associated with proximity to waste collection points in Beitbridge Municipality, Zimbabwe.

Published in Waste management (New York, N.Y.)

Population growth, urbanisation and economic development have led to the increasing generation of municipal solid waste while environmentally sustainable management remains a challenge the world over. This study sought to investigate health effects associated with proximity to waste collection points in Beitbridge Municipality, Zimbabwe. A cross-se...

'Designing a Waste Innovation Centre'

Many people do not see waste as a necessity, not being able to see that it has become an unavoidable part of our daily lives. Everything we do involves waste and even in seconds the things we use are considered as waste. The design of a waste facility in a high-density work-live area can create more awareness about waste management and material rec...

A critical review of waste resources, synthesis, and applications for Zeolite LTA

This review not only provided a summary of the state of the art with regards to commercially important zeolite LTA technology, but also identified strategies to further promote uptake of this material in industry. The hypothesis was that application of SWOT analysis principles would assimilate data regarding zeolite LTA in a manner which provided a...

Public policies for household recycling when reputation matters

An important strand in the economic literature focuses on how to provide the right incentives for households to recycle their waste. A growing number of stud- ies, inspired by psychology, seek to explain waste sorting and pro-environmental behavior, and highlight the importance of social approval and the peer effect. The present theoretical work ex...

Mesoporous silicate/carbon composites derived from dye-loaded palygorskite clay waste for efficient removal of organic c...

Published in The Science of the total environment

Palygorskite (Pal) is a natural abundant environment-friendly adsorbent that has shown high efficiency to decontaminate dye in water. However, the dye removal results in transformation of Pal to a very stable Maya Blue-like structure or waste Pal clay (WPal), which could not be easily regenerated by a commonly used desorption process. This paper pr...

Ternary diagrams as a tool for developing ceramic materials from waste: relationship between technological properties an...

Published in Environmental science and pollution research international

The present work proposes the manufacture of ceramic construction materials using raw materials which are only industrial wastes from different production processes (electric arc furnace steel slag, coal bottom ash, carbon fly ash, and oil-filtering diatomaceous-earth). From them, the SiO2-Al2O3-CaO equilibrium phase diagram has been used to formul...