Process Economy of Alternative Fuel Production from Sewage Sludge and Waste Celluloses Biomass

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985858%3A_____%2F23%3A00565261" target="_blank" >RIV/67985858:_____/23:00565261 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/68407700:21230/23:00363346 RIV/00027073:_____/23:N0000039

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/1/518" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/1/518</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en16010518" target="_blank" >10.3390/en16010518</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Process Economy of Alternative Fuel Production from Sewage Sludge and Waste Celluloses Biomass

Original language description

The treatment and disposal of sewage sludge is one of the most important and critical problems of wastewater treatment plants. 8.7 million tonnes of dry matter of sewage sludge were produced annually in the European Union in the year 2020. Due to the fact that sewage sludge contains a large number of substances that are not beneficial for human health, the conditions for sludge management will be significantly tightened in the EU countries. One option for sludge liquidation is the production of biofuel in a form of granules or pellets from sewage sludge enriched by waste celluloses. The achieved results show that the resulting quality of such alternative biofuel is fully comparable to conventional fossil fuels. The economic analysis is based on the simulation of cash flows associated with the implementation of the project over the lifetime and the calculation of levelised cost (LCOE). Results shows (under the current economic situation) that solar dryer technology ensures the lowest LCOE at the level of 26 EUR/GJ in fuel. If the LCOE of the alternative biofuel includes the price of the saved emission allowance and the future costs of sewage sludge disposal, the resulting price is directly competitive with lignite. The results thus clearly show that there is an ecological and economically competitive substitute for solid fossil fuels, which may be an important step for the future use of local combustion sources such as district heating plants.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20402 - Chemical process engineering

Project

<a href="/en/project/TN01000048" target="_blank" >TN01000048: Biorefining as circulation technology</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Energies

ISSN

1996-1073

e-ISSN

1996-1073

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

518

UT code for WoS article

000909143400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85145649972