Abstract
St. Petersburg, as the second most important Russian city in Russia is facing with waste related problems which requires taking immediate actions. The excessive diurnal volume of municipal waste generation and insufficient waste management system ring the bells to warn the decision makers. Focusing on problems, insufficiencies and opportunities of the waste management system, the paper goes through the evaluation of details of the dominant situation in St. Petersburg and two models are introduced to improve the system. At the end, an estimation of biofuel, heat and electricity generation will be provided for four incineration facility installments with design capacity of each 315,000 tons of waste per day. It will be shown that the contributing share of bioconversion processes is significant and an acceptable portion of 8% of annual electricity consumption can be supplied via those processes as well as production of 477 million liters of ethanol.
Highlights
Petersburg (SPB) lies alongside the coastal border with Gulf of Finland and it is surrounded by wide green area which can unlimitedly spread the possible pollutants to the adjacent regions and countries
Almost 50 percent of Municipal Waste (MW) is burnt in 7 incineration and co-incineration facilities in Finland [15]
Russia had stuck to the bottom of the graph fluctuating around 40 Kg per capita
Summary
St. Petersburg (SPB) lies alongside the coastal border with Gulf of Finland and it is surrounded by wide green area which can unlimitedly spread the possible pollutants to the adjacent regions and countries. Industrial sector and agriculture, landfills are known responsible for their polluting emissions in the air [7,8,9,10,11]. Emissions from landfills such as methane and CO2 are pernicious as they are potent to threaten the urban environmental system. Greenhouse gases are made up of such elements and they are blamed for global warming phenomena [12,13,14]
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