Environmental assessment of amending the Amager Bakke incineration plant in Copenhagen with carbon capture and storage.

ABSTRACT: Amending municipal solid waste incineration with carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a new approach that can reduce the climate change impacts of waste incineration. This study provides a detailed analysis of the consequences of amending the new Amager Bakke incinerator in Copenhagen (capacity: 600,000 tonnes waste per year) with CCS as a post-combustion technology. Emphasis is on the changes in the energy flows and outputs as well as the environmental performance of the plant; the latter is assessed by life cycle assessment. Amending Amager Bakke with CCS of the chosen configuration reduces the electricity output by 50% due to steam use by the capture unit, but introducing post-capture flue gas condensation increases the heat output utilized in the Copenhagen district heating system by 20

SUBMITTER: Bisinella V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8832551 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature