Abstract
It is noted that integrated waste management systems are one of the greatest challenges in order to develop the green environment. The objective of the research was to produce the refuse-derived fuel (RDF) from paper and plastic wastes besides investigating the potential of rice straw as a binder in RDF and identifying which RDF ratio can give the best performance. In this research, the samples of paper and plastic wastes are mixed with rice straw that acts as a binder to produce RDF. In order to identify the optimum ratio of RDF, 45 samples were prepared. The parameters being studied are moisture content, carbon content, sulfur content, chlorine content, and calorific value. Samples were divided into 3 ratios (the ratio of paper and plastic wastes to the binder) which are 3:1, 3:1.5, and 3:2. The result indicated that sample 1 with a ratio of 3:1 gives the optimum ratio with the following values: carbon content 50.88 %, moisture content 5.49 %, chlorine content 0.0049 %, sulfur content 2.08 %, and calorific value 29.0 MJ/kg. Hence, this sample’s ratio has a great potential to produce refuse-derived fuel (RDF) for application purposes.
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