Balkan Energy News
Summary
The hottest summer is coming to an end, but the temperatures in Serbia and the region remain extremely high. More and more fires are breaking out in thousands of landfills: from small waste dumps next to roads and waterways to relatively arranged sites with sorting units. Environment Engineering Group picked the right moment to present its Serbian White Book on Waste-to-Energy, written by domestic and Austrian authors.
The combination of ever more intensive droughts, heat and a constant rise in the quantities of generated waste contributes to fires. They are caused by self-ignition or other factors. The authors and other members of the team pointed out that the solution is to establish a separation system. All recyclable waste would be used for other purposes, so the energy is produced only from what remains after all the other stages in the hierarchy.
Incinerators can generate both power and heat – in particular, hot water, district heating and cooling energy and process steam for industrial consumers. Some kinds of waste are an alternative fuel, for instance in cement kilns.
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