Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Water Quality, Resource and Waste Management, 1040 Vienna, Austria.
Waste Manag Res. 2009 Nov;27(9):907-13. doi: 10.1177/0734242X09349763. Epub 2009 Oct 6.
At Vienna University of Technology, the so-called balance method (BM) was developed to determine fossil and biogenic CO(2) emissions from waste-to-energy (WTE) plants. Meanwhile, the BM has been routinely applied to several WTE plants for some years, providing a large set of data. The average site-specific emission factors for fossil CO(2) were found to be in the range of 260- 780 kg CO(2) t(-1) waste, and 30-67 kg CO(2) GJ(-1) energy of the waste incinerated. These values are significantly different from the values that are found in the literature. Our results show that there is no such typical emission factor for WTE which could be applied to national CO(2) measurements or accurate emission trading. This study reveals that instead of generic emission factors the BM can be used as a standard for WTE plants, since its application requires either no or only a few additional installations.
在维也纳技术大学，开发了所谓的平衡方法（BM）来确定废物能源化（WTE）工厂的化石和生物源 CO(2)排放。同时，该方法已在一些 WTE 工厂中常规应用了数年，提供了大量数据。发现化石 CO(2)的平均特定地点排放因子在 260-780kg CO(2)t(-1)废物和 30-67kg CO(2)GJ(-1)废物焚烧能源之间。这些值与文献中发现的值有显著差异。我们的结果表明，对于 WTE 没有可以应用于国家 CO(2)测量或准确排放交易的典型排放因子。本研究表明，BM 可以用作 WTE 工厂的标准，而不是通用的排放因子，因为其应用不需要或只需要很少的额外安装。
