Comparative Analysis of the Possibility to Use Urban Organic Waste for Compost or Biogas Productions. Application to Rosario City, Argentina

World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium - WMCAUS

土木建筑工程

Piacentini, Rubén D.^1,2 ; Vega, Marcelo^2

Instituto de Física Rosario (CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Rosario), Rosario, Argentina^1

Laboratorio de Eficiencia Energética, Sustentabilidad y Cambio Climático, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina^2

关键词: Biogas production;    Comparative analysis;    Compost production;    Final disposals;    Greenhouse gases (GHG);    Quality of life;    Urban problems;    Waste production;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/245/5/052029/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/245/5/052029

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The city waste is one of the main urban problems to be solved, since they generate large impacts on the environment, like use of land, contamination of the soil, water and air, and human diseases, among others. In Rosario city, placed in the Argentina Humid Pampa and having about 1 million inhabitants, the Municipality is developing different strategies in order to reduce the waste impact (295 000 Tons in 2016). One of the most important actions was the construction of the Bella Vista compost plant in 2012 (within the largest in South America). In the present work we analysed the possibility to use urban organic waste (that for Rosario city represents about 58% of the total waste in the last years) for: A) compost production and b) biogas production, with compost as a by-product. We determined the produced compost and biogas and the corresponding greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions, considering three possible scenarios: A reference scenario (Sr) where 24 100 Tons of urban solid waste per year is transported from the city houses and buildings to a transfer landfill and then to the a final disposal landfill; a scenario number one (S1) in which the same fraction of waste is transported to the Compost plant and transformed to compost and a scenario number two (S2) where the same quantity of waste is used for the production of biogas (and compost). Applying the IPCC 2006 Model, we compare the results of the annual GHG emissions, in order to select the best alternative: To expand the Compost plant or to build a Biogas (plus compost) plant. We also discussed the extension of the present analysis to the situation in which all the capability of the Compost plant (25% of the 2016 waste production of the city) is used and the impact these plants are having for a better quality of life of persons involved in the informal waste activity.