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Design and Simulation of Incineration Plant for Municipal Solid Wastes Management in Kano Metropolis

Wosu, Chimene Omeke, Shaba, Hassan Idris, Ojong, Ojong Elias

Abstract

The design and simulation of incineration plant for municipal solid waste (MSW) in Kano Metropolis using Aspen plus has been successfully achieved. The study investigated the three (3) major dumpsites (Court Road, Maimalari and Kuka Bulukiya) in the city’s eight (8) Local Government Areas, for collection and discharging of Municipal Solid Waste. The incineration plant for the waste’s conversion process was manually designed by carrying out material and energy balances on the units in the plant. The experimental data obtained from ultimate and proximate analysis of the solid wastes’ materials is used for the design and simulation of the plant. Aspen plus with Peng Robinson equation of state and Simulink embedded in MATLAB of version 4.0 were used to simulate the plant unit’s operations, based input data obtained from the characterized combustible solid wastes with incineration capacity of 5000kg/day, and operating conditions of 300OC and 500OC at 1atm pressure respectively. The simulated design results revealed that carbon and hydrogen component were produced more while oxygen and chlorine were least produced in the incineration process. Other noticeable components include water vapor, CO, CO2, N2, methane and Sulphur. A total of 3,897.35 kg/day of CO2 equivalent was produced in the stream, 865,866 Cal/s of heat was generated, while 319.051 kg/day of ash was produced from 5000 kg/day MSW feed.

Keywords

Designsimulationincinerationmunicipal solid wastesand metropolis

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