Municipal Solid Waste Incineration: Recovery or Disposal. Case Study of City Timisoara, Romania

MSW incineration is found to be the most advanced level of the waste disposal/treatment hierarchy. It might be classified as either a recovery operation or a disposal operation. Municipal solid waste and bio-coal is converted into electricity and district heating by incineration. The considered waste incineration plant will be located in Timisoara, Romania. Moreover, the energy efficiency (R1) and primary energy savings (PES) were calculated. The obtained results, for three scenarios, exceed the limits imposed and qualify incineration as a recovery operation into a high efficiency cogeneration process.