Abstract
SUSTAINABLE TREATMENT OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE WITH PLASMA GASIFICATION AS AN OPTION IN GHANA
Yesuenyeagbe A. K. Fiagbe*
ABSTRACT
Everybody generates waste and some attempt to manage what they generated. However, the local authorities have the most responsibility to manage the generated waste within its community. Most authorities somehow utilises some available technologies in their attempt to manage the municipal solid waste. Most of these methods in Ghana, including open burning, land filling, incineration, composting and recycling, are either not sustainable or employed unsustainably. With The current methods, management of these solid wastes is also increasingly becoming a problem. One of the sustainable methods of waste treatment that can result in sustainable waste management is the plasma gasification technology. The technology takes electrical energy as an input source. This is, however, recoverable if coupled with marching generation system. Plasma Gasification is advantageous since it allows for the disintegration of waste with energy recovery and without the air pollution that is characteristic of other thermal methods. The technology when apply in Ghana will produce a net energy of 35.88 MW and 27.60 MW respectively in Accra and Kumasi. Sorting is also unnecessary since the technology does not discriminate between materials.
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