Design development of waste-to-energy system for Canadian communities

满足日益增长的人口的能源需求，同时确保对环境的影响降到最低，正成为全世界的优先目标。ATCO致力于向低排放能源过渡的复杂挑战，同时继续提供可靠性，弹性和可负担性的优势。根据ATCO目前的商业利益，目前的合作项目旨在调查从住宅和商业废物中提取能源的潜力，为大型混合用途社区提供热量和电力。该项目的实施将达到以下主要目标：（ii）设计和开发适合加拿大混合能源使用社区（包括住宅和商业建筑）满足其电力和区域供热需求（也称为热电联产，CHP）的最佳WtE技术；（iii）适宜的水热电联产技术的环境影响分析及其与传统发电技术的比较。该项目的成功完成将通过利用回收的废热进行空间/水加热来减少建筑运营的碳足迹。它将有助于降低对煤炭和天然气等化石燃料的依赖，有助于实现政府实现90%的电力来自非排放源的目标。在大规模社区示范WtE的可行性有可能减少使用传统燃料的建筑作业的温室气体净排放，同时减少垃圾填埋场（富含甲烷的气体）和废物运输的温室气体排放。此外，通过将废物转化为能源显著减少废物量（高达80%）可以帮助该国建立一个高效的废物管理系统。

Fulfilling energy needs of the increasing population while ensuring a minimum impact on the environment is becoming a priority worldwide goal. ATCO is committed to the complex challenge of transition to a lower-emitting energy while continuing to deliver the benefits of reliability, resiliency and affordability. In line with current business interests of ATCO, the present collaboration project aims at investigating the potential of extracting energy from residential and commercial wastes, to supply heat and electricity of a large scale mixed use community. The project will be carried out to meet the following key objectives: (i) Canadian waste assessment and technological review of advanced waste to energy (WtE) methods, (ii) design and development of best WtE technology suitable for a Canadian mixed energy use community (including both residential and commercial buildings) serving its electricity and district heating demands (also called combined heat and power generation, CHP), and (iii) environmental impact analysis of suitable WtE-CHP technology and its comparison with conventional energy generation technologies. The successful accomplishment of this project will result in reduced carbon footprint of building operations by using recovered waste heat for space/water heating. It will assist in reducing the reliability on fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas, contributing towards the government's goal of achieving 90% electricity from non-emitting sources. Demonstration of feasibility of WtE on large scale community has the potential to reduce net GHG emissions from building operations using conventional fuel, while simultaneously reducing GHG emissions from landfills (methane rich gases) and waste transportation.. Additionally, the significant volume reduction of waste through waste to energy conversion (upto 80%) can help the country to establish a high performing waste management system.