Current status and review of waste-to-biogas conversion for selected European countries and worldwide

Zupančič, Matevž (author), Možic, Valerija (author), Može, Matic (author), Cimerman, Franc (author), Golobič, Iztok (author)

Growing world population and increasing population density are leading to increasing waste production with biological waste amounting to several billion tonnes annually. Together with the increasing need for renewable energy sources, waste-to-biogas conversion as a prime example of waste-to-energy technology represents a facile way of solving two problems simultaneously. This review aims to address the recent progress in the field of waste-to-biogas technology, which is lately facing intensive research and development, and present the current status of this waste treatment method both in technological and legislative terms. The first part provides an overview of waste and waste management issues. This is followed by a detailed description of applicable waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies and their current implementation in selected European countries. Moreover, national energy and climate plans (NECPs) of selected EU Member States are reviewed and compared with a focus on implementation of WtE technologies. In a further section, biogas production from waste around the world is reviewed and compared country wise. Finally, an outlook into the future of WtE technologies is provided alongside the conclusions based upon the reviewed data.

• Language: English
• Keywords: waste, biogas, methanation, waste-to-biogas, waste-to-energy, gas separation
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 25 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 14, iss. 3, art. 1823
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-134923
• UDC: 628.385:66.071
• ISSN on article: 2071-1050
• DOI: 10.3390/su14031823
• COBISS.SI-ID: 97006595
• Publication date in RUL: 11.02.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sustainability
• Shortened title: Sustainability
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2071-1050
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5324897

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 05.02.2022

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: odpadki, bioplin, metanacija, predelava odpadkov v bioplin, predelava odpadkov v energijo, separacija plinov

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0223
• Name: Prenos toplote in snovi