Implementation, operation and economical assessment of the first 3MW biomass distributed energy resource: A case study of Iran

Biomass distributed energy resources are also known as waste-to-energy plants. The heat from the combustion process is used to generate superheated steam in boilers. Municipal solid waste incineration is a greenhouse gas emitter; however, if greenhouse gas emitter reductions, achieved by accounting for waste-to-energy, exceed greenhouse gas emitter emissions, incineration can be considered as a net greenhouse gas emitter reducer. A metropolitan city like Tehran of Iran has the sufficient potential to construct biomass distributed energy resources. In this paper, the technical report of implementation, operation and economical assessment of waste incineration plant of Tehran as a practical case study is presented. The plant nominal capacity is 3MW that is located in the suburb of Tehran in Kahrizak region. The paper approaches are divided into three parts of economic, environmental and technical studies that the main factors of each section are studied. In this paper, the furnace technology of the plant is based on Pyrolysis incinerator that has the optimum combustion rather than other technologies. In addition, the installed filter is poly tetra flour ethylene that could observe 99.8% remaining dusts in the output gas that effect directly to improve the environmental standards.