Pruning urban waste use to generate electricity

Author

Cortez, Cristiane Lima ; Coelho, Suani Teixeira

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electrotechnics & Energy, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

16-18 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

5389

Lastpage

5392

Abstract

From the estimated amount of pruning waste in urban Eletropaulo\´s Concession Area, results of R&D project "Study of Potential Use of Biomass Resulting from Pruning and Removal of Trees in the Concession Area of Eletropaulo", funded by the Brazilian National Electric Energy Agency and developed by the Brazilian Reference Center on Biomass of the Institute of Electrotechnics and Energy of the University of Sao Paulo, in partnership with AES Eletropaulo, the potential use of this waste to generate electricity was studied, with two technologies being analyzed: steam cycle and anaerobic digestion. The power plant was more viable than the anaerobic digestion one. It is expected that the results presented collaborate for the use of pruning urban waste to generate electricity, and stimulate the creation of public policies to encourage this practice.

Keywords

distributed power generation; waste-to-energy power plants; anaerobic digestion; electricity generation; steam cycle; urban waste use; Biomass; Boilers; Electricity; Fuels; Investments; Power generation; Production; Anaerobic digestion; Biomass energy; Eletrical energy; Solid residues; Steam cycle; Urban pruning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Control Engineering (ICECE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Yichang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8162-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECENG.2011.6058168

Filename

6058168