Objective Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) and biomass from urban vegetation, agricultural residues or non-food production have a significant potential as energy sources for electric energy and heat production. Gasification seems to be the emerging technology because of its lower environmental impact and higher energy efficiency respect to incineration and landfill. The possibility of managing in the same plant MSW and agricultural biomass has the advantage of a constant supply throughout the year and offers the opportunity in the future to substitute increasing fractions of MSW, that could be collected and valorised separately, with the biomass production from marginal land areas that will be incentivated to convert to cultivations for energy production. The project objective is the feasibility evaluation of a full scale gasification plant, located in a well-defined area, and the extension of the results to other typical European conditions. The study will be operated referring to the location selected by the regional waste plan for the future waste handling unit of the Municipality of Catania, in the Sicily island, Italy. The plant size will consider two gasification technologies: circulating fluidized bed and slagging gasifier. The proposed techniques will be evaluated in technical, economic, occupational, environmental and marketing terms. A comparison between the two technologies will be produced. The diffusion potential of a combined biomass+MSW system of this type will be assessed. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectrical engineeringelectric energyengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesagricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomassengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsenergy conversion Programme(s) FP3-RENA - EU Preparatory action on renewable energies, 1994 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator CONPHOEBUS SCRL - ISTITUTO DI RICERCHE PER LE ENERGIE RINNOVABILI E IL RISPARMIO ENERGETICO Address Passo martino zona industriale 95030 Catania, piano d'arci Italy See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Ansaldo Ricerche Srl - Societá per lo Sviluppo di Nuove Tecnologie Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Corso perrone 25 16161 Genova See on map Ansaldo Volund A/S Denmark EU contribution € 0,00 Address 2,centervej 6000 Kolding See on map Biopresse France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 9 rue benoît malon 92150 Suresnes See on map Comune di Catania Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via pulvirenti 4 95100 Catania See on map
