Determination of Energy Content of the Municipal Solid Waste of Ado – Ekiti Metropolis, Southwest, Nigeria
Journal Title: Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology - Year 2017, Vol 23, Issue 1
Abstract
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is a: material discarded as worthless to the city and this has been a serious threat to the eco-system. This can be channeled into a very useful form to generate energy and thereby converting it to wealth. The waste samples were harvested, sorted, sundried, pulverized and sieved using a sieve size of 500 μm. The moisture content of the constituents of the waste sample was determined. The digital bomb calorimeter (Cal – 2k Eco Calorimeter) was used to test the calorific value of the prepared waste samples. The results indicated that the polythene products waste has the specific energy content of 35,959 kJ/kg while the bones component of the waste sample has 6,994.39 kJ/kg. The mean specific energy content is 17.57 MJ/kg. The total energy content of the MSW generated within the urban metropolis is 4,449,426.14 MJ/day. This implies that when used per day for steam production 51.5 MW of electricity could be generated in Ado-Ekiti.
Authors and Affiliations
O. L. Rominiyi, O. P. Fapetu, J. O. Owolabi, B. A. Adaramola
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP318324
- DOI 10.9734/CJAST/2017/32340
- Views 131
- Downloads 0
Geochemical Analysis of the Groundwater Quality along the Vrishabhavathi River Basin
Aim: The current study aims at assessing the groundwater quality along the Vrishabhavathi river basin for various water quality variables. Study Design: Conventional Titrimetric and Spectrophotometric methods were employ...
Simulation of Steady State Heat Conduction Using an Hybrid Floating Walk and Markov Chain Technique
Markov chain technique had been developed for numerical simulation of steady state heat conduction. However the technique could only be used to handle domain with regular boundaries. An hybrid of floating walk and Markov...
Dual-layer SDN Model for Deploying and Securing Network Forensic in Distributed Data Center
Many data centers nowadays begin to switch to SDN (Software-Defined Networking), to gain the main features like predictability, centralized management, quality of service and enhanced security. Comparing with traditional...
Effect of Different Combination of Nitrogen and Organic Manure on Leaf Nutrient Content of Japanese Pear (Pyrus pyrifolia) Cv. Punjab Beauty
Field experiment was conducted to assess the effect of nitrogen and farmyard manure (FYM) on leaf content of pear cv. Punjab Beauty. The 15 treatments comprised of nitrogen levels i.e. 0, 200, 400, 600 and 800 g per plan...
The Effect of Heat Input on the Mechanical and Corrosion Properties of AISI 304 Electric ARC Weldments
The mechanical and corrosion performances of austenitic stainless steels arc weld joints in service environments have been established to be influenced by the process parameters used in carrying out the welding process....