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Techno-economic assessment of waste sorting scenarios regional case study: Madaba sorting plant, Jordan

Authors: Arwa Abdelhay, Amro Al-Hroub, Munjed Al Sharif

Published in: Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management | Issue 1/2023

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Material Recovery Facilities (MRF) shall play a strategic role in developing countries to satisfy the sustainable development. The aim of this paper is to carry out a scenario-based techno-economic assessment of a local government MRF located in Madaba, Jordan. Two operational scenarios were identified to improve the recycling process and to increase the economic revenues. The first scenario includes a sorting process with and without a ballistic separator and the second is a Refused Derived Fuel (RDF) production scenario. An economic model was developed and it relied on the investment indices namely, NPV, ERR and the payback period. The results indicated that a product-recycling scenario with three working shifts is feasible starting from a process feed capacity of 14,500 and 12,700 ton/y with and without a ballistic separator, respectively. The External Rate of Return (ERR) achieved with and without the ballistic separator was 24.6% and 21.3%, respectively and the payback period was 4 years for both cases. The second scenario consisted of exploring the economic feasibility of RDF production, which was feasible starting from an 80% MSW collection level and a selling price of 70 JOD/ton of RDF. An RDF price higher than 117 JOD/ton is cost effective at the other proposed collection levels.

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Title: Techno-economic assessment of waste sorting scenarios regional case study: Madaba sorting plant, Jordan
Authors: Arwa Abdelhay
Amro Al-Hroub
Munjed Al Sharif
Publication date: 08-11-2022
Publisher: Springer Japan
Published in: Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management / Issue 1/2023
Print ISSN: 1438-4957
Electronic ISSN: 1611-8227
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-022-01543-1

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