Incineration of waste

  • Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    China
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Agriculture
    Energy efficiency
    Industry
    Waste management

    A2N is the company that developed the Smart Pre-Combustion Emissions Reduction and Fuel Saving Technology for use with all Internal Combustion Engines (ICE), industrial incinerators and Coal-Fired Power Plants (CEPP). 

  • Objective

    The most commonly used conversion methods – combustion of waste to produce heat or electricity; anaerobic digestion to produce methane for heat or power production etc. all are well-established and commercial technologies. A further set of conversion processes – for example, the production of liquid fuels from cellulosic materials by biological or thermochemical conversion processes, such as pyrolysis – are at earlier stages of commercialisation or still under development.

  • Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    South Korea
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Carbon fixation and abatement
    Coastal zones
    Early warning and Environmental assessment
    Renewable energy
    Energy efficiency
    Industry
    Infrastructure and Urban planning
    Waste management
    Water

    Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), established in 1918 as the Geological Survey of Korea, is a government-funded Geoscience research organization where the top-notch R&D are ongoing.

  • Objective

    According to the EC (19 November, 2008) “waste means any substance or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard.” Recycling materials and products – that are considered waste - is an ancient practice which shows that in times of resource scarcity (i.e. shortage of virgin materials) societies attach more economic and societal value to their own waste. This implies that throughout time the definition of waste can change as well. Generally speaking longer use or re-use of materials and products this is often mainly to cover a society’s needs.

  • Knowledge partner
    Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    Japan
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Knowledge Partner
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Renewable energy
    Energy efficiency
    Forestry
    Transport
    Waste management

    The Global Environment Centre Foundation (GEC) is an entity that supports the UNEP’s International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC), based in Japan.

  • Publication date
    Objective

    Amidst a visible period of transition with trade unions, employers’ organisations, the private sector and the UN allying themselves to low-carbon and sustainable thinking, this paper reports on the emergence of a “green economy” and its impact on the world of work in the 21st Century. It shows for the first time at a global level that green jobs are being generated in some sectors and economies.

  • Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    France
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member

    Created in 1961, the International Technical Centre on Air Pollution and Climate Change (CITEPA) is a not-for-profit association (1901 Act). CITEPA identifies, analyses and disseminates data and methods on air pollution and climate change.

  • Objective
    Technology

    Händelöverket is today owned by E.ON Värme AB. The first boiler was commissioned in 1982 and the site has since been extended and refurbished many times in order to always exhibit the latest environmental performance, the latest boiler was commissioned in 2011. Händelöverket is one of Sweden’s biggest and most modern power plants and it supplies Norrköping and Söderköping with heat and power and it also supplies process steam to Agroetanol for the production of ethanol. Händelöverket is an efficient system that utilizes 90% of the fuel’s energy. The fuel consists of 95% waste and biomass.