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Waste Recycling: Waste To Energy System, Basheer Abdulrazzak Ghani, Nadhim Mejbil Faleh

Al-Bahir Journal for Engineering and Pure Sciences

The current economic growth trend of increased urbanization has resulted in huge amounts of municipal waste and energy consumption. Many emerging countries, such as Iraq, suffer from the worsening of such a problem. Thus, an adequate municipal waste management system and the innovation of renewable energy alternatives are the fundamental issues that need to be addressed. Two test rigs were used in this study: the first separates waste based on the principle of gravity and the difference in density between the constituent elements of the waste, The test rig consists of a conveyor belt (0.5 meter) width and (1.5 meter) …