This publication focuses on the health and safety issues of the supply chain of solid biofuels with the objective to highlight commonly used mitigation methodologies to promote a better working environment when dealing with solid biofuels. It has been compiled as a joint effort by experts active in Tasks 32, 36, 37 and 40 of […]
read moreAn overview of the source separation and separate collection of the digestible fraction of household waste, and of other similar wastes from municipalities, aimed to be used as feedstock for anaerobic digestion in biogas plants Teodorita Al Seadi Nia Owen Hanna Hellström Ho Kang
read moreIntegration of Thermal Energy Recovery into Solid Waste Management. Pat Howes and Kathryn Warren, IEA Bioenergy Task 36.
read moreThis report investigates the apparent growth of the use of Advanced Conversion Technologies (gasification and pyrolysis) for the treatment of waste in the UK, and identify the number of projects in development and in operation, and state the reason for the growth experienced.
read moreThis report discusses the definition of RDF within the UK context and describes the export of RDF that has occurred during 2015, being over 2.8 million tonnes. It then presents an approach using mass balance derived from data issued for 2015 by the UK Government Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), and deduces […]
read moreThe International Energy Agency Bioenergy Task 36 – ‘Integrating Energy Recovery in to Solid Waste Management Systems’ (Task 36) reviewed small scale energy from waste (EfW) systems in (Stein and Tobiasen, 2004). That review examined the technology and economics of small-scale energy conversion systems and reported on the level of commercial availability in IEA Bioenergy […]
read moreThis is the final report for the IEA Bioenergy Agreement Task 36 – Integrating Energy Recovery in to Solid Waste Management for the period 2013-15. In this period, the Task aimed to examine issues that are important to policy development and implementation of energy recovery systems for solid wastes. In the period 2013-15 Task 36 […]
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