Waste-to-energy technology for the brazilian context

a review article

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https://doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol9.iss9.3367

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waste-to-energy, incineration, gasification, pyrolysis, municipal solid waste, energy recovery

Abstract

Waste-to-Energy Technologies (WtE) have been widely used in European countries, in Japan, in some US cities, and have been growing in China. Currently, in Brazil, there are no WtE power plants in operation, but there are studies on the feasibility of this technology. The Systematic Bibliographic Review (SBR) presented in this mini-review article appears as a result of a process of prospecting documents in the following databases: Science Direct, Web of Science and Scopus. The purpose was to map the articles of the last five years on the applications of WtE technologies in Brazil. From the selection of articles relevant to the research, these documents were registered and cataloged, as well as their qualitative and quantitative analyses. During the systematization process, it was possible to raise hypotheses about which professionals have been working the most on this topic, the journals in which these researches are being published and the keywords most addressed for these case studies. In addition, it was possible to identify the characteristics of the publications related to the theme, the central axes of analysis of the studies and the primary techniques studied for the Brazilian reality. It was also considered part of the results of the present work, the systematization of the main definitions of WtE, the presentation of the main WtE technologies operations, and the exposition of the benefits and impacts of each of these technologies.

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Author Biographies

  • Natália Dadario, São Paulo State University

    Doctoral student of the Program in Agribusiness and Development, School of Sciences and Engineering

  • Mario Mollo Neto, São Paulo State University

    Associate Professor, Dept. of Biosystems Engineering, School of Sciences and Engineering

  • Cristiane Hengler Corrêa Bernardo, São Paulo State University

    School of Sciences and Engineering

  • Roberto Bernardo, São Paulo State University

    Post-graduate of the Program in Agribusiness and Development, School of Sciences and Engineering

  • Lu´ís Roberto Almeida Gabriel Filho, São Paulo State University

    Associate Professor, Dept. of Management, Development and Technology, School of Sciences and Engineering

  • Camila Pires Cremasco, São Paulo State University

    Associate Professor, Dept. of Biosystems Engineering, School of Sciences and Engineering

  • Felipe André dos Santos, São Paulo State University

    Associate Professor, Dept. of Biosystems Engineering, School of Sciences and Engineering

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Dadario, N., Mollo Neto, M., Hengler Corrêa Bernardo, C., Bernardo, R., Almeida Gabriel Filho, L. R., Cremasco, C. P., & dos Santos, F. A. (2021). Waste-to-energy technology for the brazilian context: a review article. International Journal for Innovation Education and Research, 9(9), 427-448. https://doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol9.iss9.3367
Received 2021-08-05
Accepted 2021-08-30
Published 2021-09-01

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