Register Now

EUBCE 2025 - Liang WANG - Forecasting End Products in Food Waste Management System for a Circular Future

Forecasting End Products in Food Waste Management System for a Circular Future

 Print

Municipal and industrial bio-wastes

Forecasting End Products in Food Waste Management System for a Circular Future

Short Introductive summary

The aim of this study is to quantify the household food waste flows and end-products from generation to final treatment today and in the future to assess their circularity potential. The analysis is done for a large Scandinavian city with forecasting based on historical data. A hypothetical case was developed for future's food waste management system to handle the changing food waste amount assuming that there might not be sufficient biogas plant capacity in the future, and eventually the “surplus” of food waste may be sent to energy recovery. The energy recovery from food waste through incineration is considered as a temporary solution and a way to address a mismatch between the current system and upcoming needs.

Presenter

Moderator portrait

Liang WANG

SINTEF Energy Research, Thermal Energy Dpt., NORWAY

Presenter's biography

Liang Wang is a research scientist at SINTEF Energy Research in Trondheim Norway. His research focuses on thermal conversion and utilization of biomass and wastes for renewable energy and green fuel production and substainable metal prodcution processes.

Biographies and Short introductive summaries are supplied directly by presenters and are published here unedited


Co-authors:

C. Birgen, SINTEF Ocean, Trondheim, NORWAY
L. Wang, SINTEF Energy Research, Trondheim, NORWAY
M. Becidan, SINTEF Energy Research, Trondheim, NORWAY

Session reference: 1DV.1.21