REFUSE DERIVED FUEL

Abstract

Since last decade it has been characterized by a drastic increase in the demand for fossil fuels, which has
caused a steep rise in oil price. At the same time, several environmental catastrophe have increased the sensitivity of
world-wide public opinion towards the effect that environmental pollution has on human health and climate change.
These conditions have increased a renewed interest in renewable energy like solar energy, wind energy, biomass and
solid wastes. However, the disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW) has become a critical and costly problem. The
traditional landfill method requires large land and contaminates air, water and soil.
The study was, therefore, started to assess the potential of power generation from refused derived fuels (RDF) from
Municipal Solid Waste in order to reduce the dependency on fossil fuels. There are 337 tons which is equivalent to 12
tons/h of RDF that can be generated daily from the MSW and this would generate 19.2 MW power.

Refuse derived fuel (RDF) generally refers to the product of “CHEMICAL” plus “MECHANICAL” processing
of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) produce as per specific output. The current research work is the assessment of the
energy available from the municipal solid waste (MSW) and from the rural Village for the Self-Sustainable development
of new (RDF), as a green fuel and development of the new site for MSW management. The study also contained the
Collection and Segregation of all the energy available in the villages as well as Municipal corporations. From the study
it is found that the green village as well as Municipal Corporation has considerable energy potential.. The energy &
green fuel density will also help for the development of the green fuel at one particular village as well as at Municiple
Corporation locations.