The 14th American Institute of Chemical Engineers, AIChE, Annual General Meeting

Atlanta Marriott Marquis & Hilton Atlanta, Atlanta GA, USA November 16 – 21 2014

Recycling Waste-to-Energy: Studies Carried-out on a Metropolitan City of the North-Eastern Nigeria

Ibrahim A. & Engr. Dr. M. N. Idris*; MAIChE, AMIChemE, MNSE Energy & Process Refining Technology Group Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Maiduguri

Borno State, Nigeria

Tel: +234 (0) 705 877 1096

Email: idrismn@unimaid.edu.ng, muhinu@hotmail.co.uk

ABSTRACT

Studies on municipal solid waste (MSW) were carried-out in some selected locations from the Maiduguri metropolis. These wastes are produced and/or accumulated due to various human activities. Amongst the many factors that these wastes will course to the environment are: environmental degradation, insects, atmosphere (air) pollution, diseases, and disfigure the image of the city. In the effort to meeting the millennium development goals (MDGs) specification on environment, this paper is advocating that an appropriate solid waste management system/mechanism must be applied in this context. It is reasonable to recover energy from MSW through a variety of a process as such combustion pyrolysis and gasification. In the studies, we estimated the energy content of the MSW from the Maiduguri metropolis in order to achieve its optimal system performances.
It was determined that the quantity of solid waste that we are depositing on daily bases at some selected/various locations were respectively 10,000kg/m2, 20,000kg/m2 ,
40,000kg/m2, 20,000kg/m2 , 10,000kg/m2 from Bagga road, Mairi ward, Monday Market,
Post Office, and University of Maiduguri campus. These values determined were compared with the reported data from the literature, were energy values of different materials when incinerated to arrive at the corresponding energy (power) that can be produced from Maiduguri metropolis MSW.

Keywords: MSW, MDGs, metropolis, environment, degradation.

Correspondence about this article: Please for all correspondence on this article, kindly contact the principal author (Engr. Dr. M. N. Idris) as stated above. Thank you.