Efficient Energy Recovery from Textile Waste and Biomass Mixture

22nd International Scientific Conference "Engineering for Rural Development" : Proceedings, Volume 22 2023
Jānis Kramens, Edgars Vīgants, Sai Pavan Kanukuntla, Dmitri Goljandin

The efficient energy recovery from the fuel pellets consisting of waste textile materials and biomass depends on many factors. One of the main is to create a competitive form for the newly offered fuel (pellets from a mixture of biomass and textile), as well using a new generation of small-scale energy production facilities. Roughly estimated that the quantities of textiles separately collected will increased from 65 000 to 90 000 tons per year across the EU-27 from 2025. Reuse and recycling outlets will need to be created, as the current sorting and recycling capacities are not sufficient to process the anticipated volumes. However, it is also expected that at least half of these additional volumes will comprise non-reusable textile waste with specific flame retardant (FR) treatment. It is known that flame retardant is hazard by its adverse environmental impacts of FRs in their production and disposal phases. The objective of the paper is to review opportunities of elaboration a new type of the fuel pellets and using them in small-scale pellet boilers and combined heat and power CHP. The new pellets from biomass (prepared by plasticization method) and chopped textile waste sized up to 2-3 mm (by method separative milling) were elaborated and tested in controlled combustion processes. Experiments were carried out by adding different proportions of textile waste to biomass pellets and the results obtained are summarized in the article

Keywords
textile waste, energy recovery, GHG, efficiency
DOI
10.22616/ERDev.2023.22.TF161
Hyperlink
https://www.tf.lbtu.lv/conference/proceedings2023/Papers/TF161.pdf

Kramens, J., Vīgants, E., Kanukuntla, S., Goljandin, D. Efficient Energy Recovery from Textile Waste and Biomass Mixture. In: 22nd International Scientific Conference "Engineering for Rural Development" : Proceedings, Volume 22, Latvia, Jelgava, 24-26 May, 2023. Jelgava: Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, 2023, pp. 817-825. e-ISSN 1691-5976. Available from: doi:10.22616/ERDev.2023.22.TF161

Publication language
English (en)