Descrizione del progetto
Generare energia rinnovabile dai rifiuti
Prodotto a partire da cascame recuperabile, il combustibile solido recuperato è una fonte di energia ad alto rendimento per la produzione di elettricità e calore rinnovabili. Questa alternativa di smaltimento dei rifiuti può contribuire al ripristino di quantità significative di rifiuti comunali e industriali. Attualmente, il 30 % dei rifiuti non minerali e non pericolosi finisce nelle discariche, ovvero quasi 70 milioni di tonnellate metriche all’anno di produzione non realizzata di combustibile solido non recuperato in Europa. Il progetto REAL, finanziato dall’UE, sta sviluppando una tecnologia di microgassificazione per superare le attuali sfide in materia di valorizzazione del combustibile solido non recuperato. REAL attuerà un modello aziendale per aumentare lo sviluppo e la gestione di piccole unità di produzione locale competitive sul mercato energetico liberalizzato senza ricorrere a un ulteriore sussidio. Il progetto garantirà un approvvigionamento energetico più accessibile e affidabile.
Obiettivo
Over the past 20 years, Europe has increasingly shifted its focus on the municipal and industrial waste from disposal to prevention and recycling. 30% of non-mineral, non-hazardous waste goes to landfill, which represents a Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) production in Europe of 70 million tons/year. The SRF is a fuel produced by shredding and dehydrating solid waste, typically consisting of combustible components. While promising as thermally recoverable waste, the SRF potential is today underexploited due to technical, economic and regulatory issues. Our company LCEET has thus designed an innovative micro-gasification technology – called REAL – to overcome current challenges of SRF valorisation, reducing the flue gas volume (-40%), the installation size and related capital investment (by up to 45%). Face to other technologies, REAL allows for an energy recovery over 80%. This project also addresses the challenges of the EU energy markets which face a continuous increase of electricity consumption that overloads the power stations and threatens the supply security and power quality. Decentralised energy production is a solution that can complement current central generation supply infrastructures. Despite the advantages, current developers are hindered by: non-shared governance, limited technical solutions, complexity of finances, management of investments, profitability, efficiency and sustainability. REAL aims to implement a business model to boost territorial energy autonomy, by supporting municipalities, industries, citizens in the decision, development and management of small local production units, competitive in the liberalised energy market without any additional subsidy. This project guarantees energy supply & quality at competitive price and a reduction of associated cost to waste management. For LCEET, REAL exploitation will allow us to obtain a lead position in energy production projects for local economies, obtaining a revenue growth over €31.4M by 2026.
Campo scientifico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsmonetary and finances
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- agricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomass
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