Challenges and Opportunities to Produce Power and Energy from Municipal Solid Wastes

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In 2018, the United States generated approximately 292.4 million tons of trash and recycled or composted only about 34% of it. While the waste stream of high-income countries is composed of 28% biodegradable, 54% recyclable, and 18% inert materials, among lower income countries, a full 64% is biodegradable and only 19% recyclable and 17% inert. Despite this, municipal solid wastes (MSW) still remains as an environmental, societal, and economical liability, as almost all of it are currently landfilled or incinerated. Several major challenges of MSW are heterogeneity, instability, wetness, and low bulk density. As a result, MSW often alters chemical composition, and physical and biological properties, which present a significant challenge for utilization and conversion to power, energy, and fuel. This lecture will provide an overview of the MSW characteristics, current practices of MSW handling, and challenges of MSW upcycling to power and energy. The lecture will also introduce emerging technologies to overcome the challenges related to MSW utilization to achieve U.S. Department of Energy’s 2030 cost goal of bioenergy of $2.50/gasoline gallon equivalent.

 


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  • Dr. Toufiq Reza is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences of Florida Institute of Technology. 

  • Co-sponsored by IEEE Melbourne, Power and Energy Section
  • Starts 15 March 2022 02:00 PM UTC
  • Ends 27 April 2022 05:00 PM UTC
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Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering of Florida Institute of Technology

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Challenges and Opportunities to Produce Power and Energy from Municipal Solid Wastes

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Dr. Toufiq Reza is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences of Florida Institute of Technology. He has received his Ph.D. from University of Nevada, Reno in 2013. Dr. Reza leads the Biofuels Research Lab at Florida Tech with primary research interest on waste-to-energy. Dr. Toufiq Reza has published seventy-four peer-reviewed journal articles and more than one hundred oral and poster presentations. Dr. Reza was named to the I&EC Research 2021 Class of Influential Researchers – The Americas. In 2019, he received the Marvan E. and Ann D. White research award. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and Sugarbush Foundation. 

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Address:Florida Institute of Technology, OPS 330, 150 W. University Blvd, Melbourne, Florida, United States, 32901




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