Environmental management regarding resource recovery in Malaysia
List of Authors
  • Begum, Rawshan Ara , Mir, Masoud Aghajani , Noor Ezlin Ahmad Basri , Noor Zalina Mahmood , Saheri, Sanaz

Keyword
  • Refuse Derived Fuel, Municipal Solid Waste, Resource Recovery Center, Waste to Energy plant

Abstract
  • Waste disposal is a global problem contributing to the ongoing climate change due to large emissions of greenhouse gases. So, by using a waste material as a resource instead of land filling, the greenhouse gas emissions from landfills will be reduced. Also, Waste material can be used for waste incineration with energy recovery, thus decreasing the greenhouse gas emission from energy utilization by changing from fossil fuels to a partly renewable fuel. The production of Refuse Derived Fuels (RDF) involves the mechanical processing of household waste using screens, shredders and separators to recover recyclable materials and to produce a combustible product Regarding Resource Recovery Center/Waste to Energy (RRC/WtE) Facility in Malaysia that located in Semenyih. This System involves the removal of inert and compostable materials followed by pulverization to produce a feedstock which be incinerated in power stations. The purpose of this study is to evaluate and forecasting of the number of these facilities that Kuala Lumpur will need regarding to potential of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) generation and Refuse Derive Fuel that will be produce from that in the future. This plant can produce average 7.5 MWh electricity from 700 tons MSW or 200 ton RDF per day that approximately is used 1.8 MWh per day inside the pant, and it can sell around 5.7 MWh daily. Kuala Lumpur will generate around 7713 tons MSW per day, and it is able to produce 2466 ton RDF per day. Regarding to potential of MSW and RDF generation by 2020 in Kuala Lumpur it will need around 11 plants to treatment of MSW that this number of plant are able to produce around 62.7 MWh electricity per day.

Reference
  • BioGen. 2003, Biogen awareness and information session: renewable energy in Malaysia - potential and "the way forward‘‘.
    Hitam.S. 1999. Sustainable energy policy and strategies: a prerequisite for the concerted development and promotion of the renewable energy in Malaysia.
    Mariyappan. K. 2000. Country report from Malaysia: status of renewable energy and energy efficiency in Malaysia.
    Mohamed.A.R. and Lee, K.T.2005. Energy for sustainable development in Malaysia: Energy policy and alternative energy.
    Mohd.M.N. Mujeebu,M.A. 2009. Assessment of municipal solid waste generation and recyclable materials, potential in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
    Mohamed Osman Saeed. International Energy Outlook. 2004. World energy and economic outlook.
    PTM.2004. (Malaysia Energy Centre. Biomass power generation & cogeneration project (BioGen).
    Rogner. H.H. and Popescu, A. 2001 .World energy assessmen.
    Spalding-Fecher, R. and Winkler, H.S. 2005. Energy and the world summit on sustainable development. Energy Policy.
    Thaddeus. J. 2002. Complementary roles of natural gas and coal in Malaysia. Eighth APEC coal flow seminar/nineth APEC Clean fossil energy technical seminar/fourth APEC coal trade, investment, liberalization and facilitation workshop, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
    Tsai.W.T. and Chou, Y.H. 2004. An overview of renewable energy utilization from municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration in Taiwan. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews in press, available online.
    UK Trade & Investment, 2003. Power market in Malaysia. Available at: http://search1.tradepartners.gov.uk/text/energy/malaysia/profile/overview.shtml .
    WIIAD . 1996. Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, Mining the urban waste stream for energy: options, technological limitations and lessons from the field.
    World Employment Report. 2001.National report on the ICT sector in Malaysia.