Teppo Vartiainen, Ari Happonen, Paulo Afonso, Timo Karri
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Currently, most of the municipal solid waste generated in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region is sent straight to landfill. Landfills cause multiple problems, such as CH4 and CO2 emissions, landfill fires, odors, and groundwater pollution. Waste-to-Energy (WtE) incineration is a way to recover the waste\'s energy in the forms of electricity and heat. In this study, a model for estimating the profitability of a WtE incineration plant is presented and applied to the city of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region. Based on the data used, WtE incineration is economically feasible in the area, however changes in estimates impact the economic feasibility, and the changes in the revenues have the highest impact on the outcome.
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Interciencia has been published uninterruptedly since 1976. Its Founding Director, Marcel Roche (endocrinologist and sociologist of science) was editor until 2008, and thereafter Miguel Laufer (neurobiologist) has been in charge. It has been included since 1978 in the Science Citation Index and other international indexes, and since 2008 it maintains an open access electronic version with material from 2005 onwards.
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