Earth Engineering Center Publications
The State of Garbage in America
The 15th Nationwide Survey of MSW Management in the U.S.
From BioCycle Magazine - April 2006
Capture and Utilization of Landfill Gas
Renewable Energy, 2005
by Professor N.J. Themelis and Priscilla Ulloa
What is the potential for additional utilisation of landfill gas in the USA and around the world?
Investigations on Corrosion Protective Layers in Waste Incineration Plants
Peter Crimmann, Dietmar Bendix, Martin Faulstich, Sulzbach-Rosenberg / D WTERT-Germany 2005
Corrosion in the hot gas area of waste incineration plants is a severe problem that often causes premature damage of components. In general, these components are made of base materials, which are not stable in corrosive conditions (boiler steel). Thermal spraying is an alternative to the most usual process cladding, which has the potential to create cost-efficient protective coatings. Until now, there are still not enough experiences about quality assurance (porosity, oxides) and long run behaviour inside the incineration plants with sprayed coatings. Since many years, ATZ Entwicklungszentrum is involved in the development and/or advancement of materials, technologies, and applications of thermal spraying for corrosion protection. Currently, pipes, coated with different materials and different technologies are tested by different strategies (corrosion tests under laboratory scale and/or directly in incineration plants).
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by P. Crimmann, D. Bendix, G. Tegeder, M. Faulstich WTERT-Germany 2005
Download Publication (pdf)Making Energy from Waste
The Earth Institute Newsletter for Cross-Cutting Research, Summer 2005
Download Publication (pdf)Management of Solid Wastes in Vietnam
In the past decade, strong economic growth and uncontrolled urbanization have greatly magnified the problems with Vietnam’s solid waste management system, pushing waste management to the forefront of environmental challenges with which it must contend. Not only has there been an increase in the amounts of waste generated, the composition of the waste has changed as well. The current system is already overtaxed due to lack of institutional capacity and insufficient human and capital resources as can be evidenced by low collection rates and inadequate waste facilities. Given socio-economic trends, the issue of how to deal with its solid waste will only become more critical as Vietnam industrializes.
Download Publication (pdf)Waste in a Land of Plenty – Solid Waste Generation and Management in the US
Waste Management World, ISWA (www.iswa.org), September-October 2004 Issue
By Nickolas J. Themelis and Scott M. Kaufman
The US generates the highest amount of waste per person in the world and continues to rely on landfilling at the expense of recycling and waste-to-energy, according to the latest in an annual series of national surveys on municipal solid waste generation and management.
Waste Incineration and the Community -The Amsterdam Experience
By Thomas McCarthy
The successful community relations strategy followed by the operator of Amsterdam's waste-to- energy plant has convinced the public and other stakeholders of the benefits of incineration for treating the city's waste.
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The 14th Nationwide Survey of MSW Management in the U.S.
From BioCycle Magazine - January 2004
Collaboration leads to new methodology for the 2003 survey. And the numbers are ... 26.7% of MSW recycled, 7.7% combusted in waste-to-energy plants and 65.6% landfilled.
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