It’s time for Africa to look for engineering solution to turn waste into energy
It’s time for Africa to look for engineering solution to turn waste into energy By Reda Kabbaj, Research Associate, [...]
Inventory of U.S. Dioxin Emissions
By Henri Dwyer, Nickolas J. Themelis
Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University, 500 West 120th St., NY, NY 10027, USA
Potential for Reducing Global Methane Emissions From Landfills, 2000-2030
By E. Matthews1, Prof. Nickolas J. Themelis2
1 NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, NY, NY 10025, USA
2 Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University, 500 West 120th St., NY, NY 10027, USA
Sardinia 2007, Eleventh International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium
7th International Training Workshop on Waste to Energy October 25th to November 8th, 2023, Hangzhou, China (Online)
The 7th International Training Workshop on Waste to Energy will be held from October 25th to November 8th, 2023, [...]
Waste Recovery & Final Sinks for a Sustainable Ecological Transition – June 5th-7th, 2023 Politecnico di Milano, Italia
MatER Study Center-WtERT Italia, organizes its 6th MatER Meeting together with the 7th International Conference on Final Sinks. The conjunction of the two events [...]
10th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management Chania, Greece, 21 – 24 JUNE 2023
The CHANIA 2023 10th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, 21-24 June 2023, Chania, Crete, Greece aims to [...]
The importance of landfill gas capture and utilization in the U.S.
The importance of landfill gas capture and utilization in the U.S. By Patrick Sullivan, Senior [...]
Discussion of ZWE report on dioxins from WtE plants
In January Zero Waste Europe published an article on dioxin emissions in three European waste-to-energy plants. Here Prof. Nickolas J. [...]
Energy and materials recovery from post‐recycling wastes: WTE
Authors: Nickolas .J. Themelis
Affiliation: Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University
Published in: Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy (2023)
Systematic study of the formation and chemical/mineral composition of waste-to-energy (WTE) fly ash
By Yixi Tian*, Nickolas J.Themelis, A.C. (Thanos) Bourtsalas*, Shiho Kawashima, Yuri Gorokhovich
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UNECE Releases Guidelines on Sustainable PPPs in Waste Management: Contributions from WtERT Experts
Guidelines on Public-Private Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals in Waste-to-Energy Projects for Non-Recyclable Waste: Pathways towards a Circular [...]
Training Workshop of Waste-to-Energy for North Africa
The Training Workshop of Waste-to-Energy for North Africa was successfully held online on December 5th-6th, 2022. This training workshop [...]
The Global WtERT Council represented by more than 24 Universities and Research Institute share an open letter for world leaders at COP27
Letter from Prof. Nickolas J. Themelis1 and all members of the Global WtERT Council2 an international consortium of universities [...]
2022 EEC|CCNY WtERT Bi-Annual Conference | Sustainable Waste Management: The Forefront of Innovation
The WtERT Bi-Annual Conference 2022, hosted by the Earth Engineering Center at the City College of New York (CCNY), [...]
Stabilization of Waste-to-Energy (WTE) fly ash for disposal in landfills or use as cement substitute
By Yixi Tian*, Nickolas J.Themelis, Diandian Zhao, A.C. (Thanos) Bourtsalas*, Shiho Kawashima
Link to the article in journalReview of WTE ash utilization processes under development in northwest Europe
By A.C. (Thanos) Bourtsalas
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2020 Survey of European WTE plants
The 2021 Waste-to-Energy (WtE) survey shows that WtE plants are still much needed. Thermal treatment in WtE plants continues [...]
2022 Waste-to-Energy Research And Technology (WtERT) Asia Meeting
Recent catastrophic events have made climate change a major environmental issue. The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate [...]
Performance of Waste-to-Energy fine combined ash/filter cake ash-metakaolin based artificial aggregate-Publication by Columbia University and GWC
By Yixi Tian*, A.C. (Thanos) Bourtsalas*, Shiho Kawashima, Xiaoxuan Teng, Nickolas J.Themelis
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Performance of structural concrete using Waste-to-Energy (WTE) combined ash-Publication by Columbia University and GWC
By Yixi Tian*, A.C. (Thanos) Bourtsalas*, Shiho Kawashima, Siwei Ma, Nickolas J.Themelis
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Analysis of Reshaping Plastics Report
Prof. Nickolas Themelis reviewed the data presented in the Reshaping Plastics report of April 2022 These data show that [...]
European MBT Plants Study 2022: Materials & Energy Recovery Insights from Six Facilities
By Prof. Nickolas J. Themelis and Prof. A.C. (Thanos) Bourtsalas
Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University, 500 West 120th St., NY, NY 10027, USA
Journal: Waste Management 141 (2022) 79–91 A
Waste to energy (WTE) in China: from latecomer to front runner
Authors: Nickolas J. Themelis, Wenchao Ma
Affiliation: Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University & City College of New York
Published in: Journal of Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy (2021)
Waste to energy (WTE) in China: from latecomer to front runner. This paper discusses the 2000–2018 evolution of energy and metals recovery from urban wastes in the European Union and China.
Methane emissions of U.S. Landfills
By Nickolas J. Themelis and A.C. (Thanos) Bourtsalas