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Date Written: March 25, 2021
Abstract
The deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage technologies in the waste management sector can make municipal and industrial waste a strategic resource for climate change mitigation. The generation of energy, in the form of electricity and heat, via the processing and incineration of waste already avoids methane emissions from landfill. The addition of CCS to Waste-to-Energy plants with CO2 capture levels close to 99% can reduce their CO2 emissions to the atmosphere close to zero. With CCS, biogenic carbon in waste becomes a domestic source of negative emissions with a supply chain that would complement other negative emission technologies, such as Bio-Energy with CCS (BECCS).
The NEWEST-CCUS project is an ongoing €2.5M multidisciplinary (2019-2022) project involving academics and researchers from six organisations and four European countries. It seeks to improve understanding of technologies and opportunities for negative emissions in the waste-to-energy sector. This paper outlines the broad range of activities undertaken by the consortium in response to key challenges facing the sector.
Keywords: negative emissions, waste to energy, CO2 capture, CCUS
Lucquiaud, Mathieu and Herraiz, Laura and Su, Dan and Thomson, Camilla and Chalmers, Hannah and Becidan, Michael and Ditaranto, Mario and Roussanaly, Simon and Anantharaman, Rahul and Moreno Mendaza, Joseba and Schmid, Max and Akram, Muhammad 7 and Finney, Karen N. and Pourkashanian, Mohamed and van Os, Peter and Veronezi Figueiredo, Roberta and Garcia Moretz-Sohn Monteiro, Juliana and Goetheer, Earl, Negative Emissions in the Waste-to-Energy Sector: An Overview of the Newest-CCUS Programme (March 25, 2021). Proceedings of the 15th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference 15-18 March 2021, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3812571 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3812571
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