Abstract
There is no doubt that waste products from fruit and vegetable processing are difficult to manage. In that context, partial substitution of conventional energy substrates by industrial waste is an alternative, as it helps to utilize residues and at the same time to reduce the fixed cost of running business. The aim of the article is to analyse the possibilities of using fruit processing wastes for energy purposes in Poland. The assessment on a country scale was based on the data of the Central Statistical Office. Analogical analysis was based on the data collected from selected production plant. The obtained results show that the fruit processing waste can be successfully utilized for energy purposes. At the same time, problems of organizational nature should not be overlooked, as they can significantly decrease that potential. Although the amount of energy obtained from this source is basically negligible in the Polish energy balance, the environmental factor should not be ignored also. Therefore, the utilization of waste products from fruit processing should be a topic of interest, as it works in two ways, i.e., through reducing the amount of waste and increasing production of renewable energy.
Highlights
Waste products from fruit and vegetable processing are difficult to manage
Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management (2018) 20:1878–1883 the aim of this article is to investigate the possibilities of using waste from a fruit and vegetable processing for energy purposes based on a case study
The company is located in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodship, which is a province in north-eastern Poland
Summary
Waste products from fruit and vegetable processing are difficult to manage. Management should be understood as its storage and especially disposal [1,2,3]. The main problem here is the variety of waste depends on the production in a particular region and on different specifications of substrates [4]. In case of production plants that deal with many different species of fruits and vegetables, the quantity and variety of waste can be very rich. There are many ideas leading to minimizing the amount of waste products. The most popular is using them as a fuel in a solid form [5, 6], or in the form of pellet [7], biogas [8, 9] or biofuel [10, 11]
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