Capacity estimation of solid waste fuelled power plant in Peshawar, Pakistan

Author

Aatif, Salman ; Arbab, Naeem

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Eng. & Technol. Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The serious issue of power shortages in developing countries like Pakistan leads to the search for developing renewable, economical and environment friendly re.sources of energy. Generating electricity through Waste To Energy (WTE) Plants can be a good choice for densely populated cities and is becoming popular in Asia as an economical and environment friendly technology. In this paper, capacity of Solid Waste Fueled Power Plant (SWF.PP) for city of Peshawar, Pakistan has been djscussed and for its effective results of waste incineration and Power generation a precise estimation of waste quantity collected its characteristics and ultimate power generation has been analyzed.

Keywords

bioenergy conversion; incineration; power generation economics; renewable energy sources; waste-to-energy power plants; Asia; Pakistan; Peshawar; SWFPP; developing countries; economical energy resources; electricity generation; environment friendly energy resources; power shortages; precise waste quantity estimation; renewable energy resources; solid waste fuelled power plant capacity estimation; waste incineration; waste-to-energy plants; Biomass; Electricity; Municipal Solid Waste Fueled Power Plaut; Pakistan Power crisis; Power generation; Renewable Energy; Waste to Euergy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power System Technology (POWERCON), 2014 International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/POWERCON.2014.7127313

Filename

7127313