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Waste Management & Research, Vol. 23, No. 6, 527-533 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X05060710

Quality control of waste to incineration - waste composition analysis in Lidköping, Sweden

Cecilia Mattsson Petersen

Department of Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Dalarna University College, Borlänge, Sweden, cma{at}du.se

Per E.O. Berg

Department of Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Dalarna University College, Borlänge, Sweden

Lars Rönnegård

Department of Social Science and Economics, Dalarna University College, Borlänge, Sweden

In order to decrease environmental impacts in waste management the choice of treatment method must be based on the characteristics of the waste. Present sampling procedures do not provide statistically representative samples of solid waste and this provides difficulties in characterization. The objective of this study was to develop a procedure for waste component analysis and sampling of waste after collection and at plant level. A further objective was to characterize the waste delivered to an incineration plant for physical and chemical properties and to determine the amounts of delivered waste that could be classified as biofuels and fossil fuels. The proportions of recyclables and hazardous waste were also examined. Samples were taken randomly from waste trucks and divided by square implementation. Statistical analysis of the results showed that the number of sub-samples could be decreased with only a moderate increase in the confidence interval. This means that future waste composition analyses could be made more efficient and thereby less expensive. The analysis of the waste delivered to the Lidköping incineration plant (Central Sweden) showed that 66.4% of the household waste was composed of biofuels and 21.3% of non-renewable combustibles, of which 40.3% were recyclables. In addition, 11.6% of the household waste was non-combustible and 0.6% hazardous waste. The heat value for the biofuels was 18.0-19.7 MJ kg-1 dry mass (DM) and for the fossil fuels 28.2-33.9 MJ kg-1 DM. The industrial waste consisted of 35.9% biofuels, 62.0% fossil fuels, 1.6% non-combustible and 0.5% hazardous waste. The heat value was 19.5 MJ kg-1 DM for the biofuels and 31.4 MJ kg-1 DM for the fossil fuels.

Key Words: Characterization • household waste • industrial waste • heat value • waste composition analysis • wmr 736-8


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