Potential of windrow food and green waste composting in Tunisia

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Solid waste management and disposal is one of the most significant challenges facing urban communities around the world. There is a wide range of...     

合肥城市污水处理系统分布及污泥产量与性质分析

合肥为安徽省省会城市,市域城镇人口270万,污水处理分为八大系统,成为产生大量的城市污水污泥的来源,目前其产量达500吨/天;其中既含有大量N、P等丰富的养分资源,并含有主要有Cu、Pb、Zn、Ni、Cr、Hg、Cd等重金属、大量难降解的有机污染物、20%-30%的无机物和病原物、寄生虫卵等有害物质,处理后的污泥,含水率约80%左右,平均总菌数为4.55×108个/ml,pH值为6.31,干污泥的热值平均为10 350.54 J/g,约合2 476.21 kcal/kg,此外对挥发分、灰分和固定碳含量等指标也进行了测试。对污泥的无害化、减量化处理及资源化利用提出了多元综合处理的方式与途径。     

Waste disposal technology transfer matching requirement clusters for waste disposal facilities in China

Even though technology transfer has been part of development aid programmes for many decades, it has more often than not failed to come to fruition. One reason is the absence of simple guidelines or decision making tools that help operators or plant owners to decide on the most suitable technology to adopt. Practical suggestions for choosing the most suitable technology to combat a specific problem are hard to get and technology drawbacks are not sufficiently highlighted. Western counterparts in technology transfer or development projects often underestimate or don’t sufficiently account for the high investment costs for the imported incineration plant; the differing nature of Chinese MSW; the need for trained manpower; and the need to treat flue gas, bunker leakage water, and ash, all of which contain highly toxic elements.This article sets out requirements for municipal solid waste disposal plant owner/operators in China as well as giving an attribute assessment for the prevalent waste disposal plant types in order to assist individual decision makers in their evaluation process for what plant type might be most suitable in a given situation. There is no ‘best’ plant for all needs and purposes, and requirement constellations rely on generalisations meaning they cannot be blindly applied, but an alignment of a type of plant to a type of owner or operator can realistically be achieved. To this end, a four-step approach is suggested and a technology matrix is set out to ease the choice of technology to transfer and avoid past errors. The four steps are (1) Identification of plant owner/operator requirement clusters; (2) Determination of different municipal solid waste (MSW) treatment plant attributes; (3) Development of a matrix matching requirement clusters to plant attributes; (4) Application of Quality Function Deployment Method to aid in technology localisation.The technology transfer matrices thus derived show significant performance differences between the various technologies available. It is hoped that the resulting research can build a bridge between technology transfer research and waste disposal research in order to enhance the exchange of more sustainable solutions in future.     

Higher education institutions,SDG2 and agri-food sustainability: lessons from Chulalongkorn University and Thailand

Environment, Development and Sustainability - This paper examines higher education efforts linking United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) and agri-food system sustainability given...