Evaluating municipal organic solid waste treatment technologies based on Analytic hierarchy process

Abstract

Analytic hierarchy process; Technology assessment; Abstract. As municipal organic solid waste problems become increasingly serious. According to the actual engineering situation, taking into account the social, economic, technical, environmental factors and so on, which is imperative to select waste treatment technologies. In this paper, based on the relevant literature, considering the economic, technological, environmental, social indicators as the four major categories for a hierarchy construction. It uses fuzzy math method (Multi-criteria decision methods) to deal with the problem of objective factors existence, but is unable to quantify. So it is necessary to establish a complete fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model combined with the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), so that determining the weight of all indicators. It uses the AHP to make technology assessment and to evaluate organic waste treatment mode, so that decision-makers can make better choices.