Sourced conceptual inventory per tonne of mixed municipal solid waste burnt on a moving grate with district-heating CHP: the waste by its ultimate analysis, combustion stoichiometry, energy, reagents, residues and air emissions from EU WI BREF ranges, N2O and CH4 from IPCC 2006. The net electricity and heat are the products. No flowsheet; not reviewed.
Waste incineration with energy recovery (mixed MSW, moving grate, heat-oriented CHP)
Sourced conceptual inventory per tonne of mixed municipal solid waste burnt on a moving grate with district-heating CHP: the waste by its ultimate analysis, combustion stoichiometry, energy, reagents, residues and air emissions from EU WI BREF ranges, N2O and CH4 from IPCC 2006. The net electricity and heat are the products. No flowsheet; not reviewed.
Research outputNot engineering advice and not an approved design: do not use it for construction, operation or safety decisions. What this means
Overview
- Capacity
- per tonne of mixed municipal solid waste (the dataset's basis); no plant size
What goes in and out
In
- Municipal solid waste, mixedFeedstockfeed:msw-water, feed:msw-carbon-fossil, feed:msw-carbon-biogenic, feed:msw-hydrogen, feed:msw-oxygen, feed:msw-nitrogen, feed:msw-mineral: 1 t of mixed MSW by its ultimate analysis, free (cut-off)
- AirFeedstockfeed:O2: combustion oxygen from ambient air, free; nitrogen and excess oxygen pass through
- MethaneFeedstockfeed:natural-gas: support burners, natural gas taken as methane, linked by its factor (no inventory_key, as utility-steam-ng-boiler)
- Calcium oxideReactantfeed:quicklime: semi-wet flue-gas cleaning
- AmmoniaReactantfeed:ammonia: NH3 of the 25 % ammonia water for SNCR, linked to ammonia-1 in lca/mappings.yaml
Out
- ElectricityMain productproduct:electricity: net export (generation less own use), kWh; no inventory_key (see the header)
- SteamCo-productproduct:heat: net heat export to district heating from 1.7 bar(a) steam, kWh; no inventory_key (see the header)
- Carbon dioxideEmissionfossil CO2 of the waste and the support fuel
- Carbon dioxideEmissionbiogenic CO2 of the waste
- WaterEmissionwater vapour in the flue gas
Life cycle assessment
No footprint assessed yet; the process is part of the life-cycle inventory below.
In the open LCI database (cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-a3c52e4) as Electricity, net export (generation less own use) Preliminary; Heat, net export as 1.7 bar(a) steam to the district-heating exchanger (gross heat less own use) Preliminary.
Download it for Brightway, openLCA and other tools.
In the LCI database: system model, datasets and KPIs against the benchmarks
In the LCI database
- Status
- Preliminary 4 unmapped exchanges. Some exchanges have no background mapping yet: they are exported unlinked and count no burden, so the inventory is incomplete.
- System model
- attributional, cut-off (methodology 1.1.0)
- Allocation
- exergy (deviation, from mappings) · product:electricity 49.3 %, product:heat 50.7 %
- Allocation findings
- none
- Change report
- Not available: this build has no change report against an earlier release.
- Dataset pages
- Electricity, net export (generation less own use) Preliminary · Heat, net export as 1.7 bar(a) steam to the district-heating exchanger (gross heat less own use) Preliminary
KPI benchmark positions
| KPI | Value | Reference range | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bottom ash (dry) per t of municipal solid waste | – kg/t | 150 to 350 kg/t | not evaluated |
| CO2 (fossil and biogenic) per t of municipal solid waste | – t/t | 0.7 to 1.7 t/t | not evaluated |
| Electricity exported per t of municipal solid waste | – kWh/t | 7 to 899 kWh/t | not evaluated |
| Heat exported per t of municipal solid waste | – kWh/t | 4 to 3,267 kWh/t | not evaluated |
Maturity and review
Design maturity Concept (claimed): An idea or first flowsheet; numbers are rough. No independent engineering review yet. Automated checks passing is not a review.
Calculation maturity, from the checked evidenceNot assessed
The process has no maturity report (cheme maturity, checks/maturity.json), so no calculation maturity is established.
No level shownThe design maturity (Concept) is the manifest's claim, not evidence. A level appears here once the process's repository holds a current report from
cheme maturity --write.Artifact completeness
Which deliverables exist. They never raise a calculation maturity level: a drawing from unchecked numbers is still unchecked.
Not reported without a maturity report.
Independent review
Not independently reviewed
No independent engineering review yet. Automated checks passing is not a review.
Set by people only. Reaching a calculation maturity level or passing automated checks is not an independent review or an approval.
Where the evidence comes from
- Report
processes/waste-incineration-1/checks/maturity.json(not in the library)- Method
- How ChemE-as-Code checks the levels (requirement by requirement)
Open items
0 open items · 0 closed
New action itemNew engineering holdNew technical queryNew design changeAll issues
Sources
- Library version
- a3c52e4 (process last changed in a3c52e4)
- Data
- Catalog record (JSON) · CC-BY-4.0
- Files
- View the files on GitHub · change history and authors
References
- Neuwahl, F., Cusano, G., Gómez Benavides, J., Holbrook, S., Roudier, S. (2019) Best Available Techniques (BAT) Reference Document for Waste Incineration. JRC Science for Policy Report EUR 29971 EN (JRC118637) · doi:10.2760/761437
- IPCC (2006) 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Volume 5 Waste, chapter 5 Incineration and Open Burning of Waste. IGES, Hayama
- IPCC (2006) 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Volume 2 Energy, chapter 2 Stationary Combustion, Table 2.2 (CH4 of municipal wastes). IGES, Hayama
- Channiwala, S.A., Parikh, P.P. (2002) A unified correlation for estimating HHV of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels. Fuel 81(8):1051-1063 (the waste's LHV from its ultimate analysis) · doi:10.1016/S0016-2361(01)00131-4
- Reimann, D.O. (2012) CEWEP Energy Report III (Status 2007-2010). Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants, Brussels (benchmarks and context only: own heat use, exported energy)
How to cite
For the data, cite the Process Atlas paper; for the platform that builds and checks it, the ChemE-as-Code paper.
Schweidtmann, A. M. & Weber, J. M. (2026, in preparation). Process Atlas: an open, git-native, reproducible library and life cycle inventory of chemical processes (working title).
For this process: "Waste incineration with energy recovery (mixed MSW, moving grate, heat-oriented CHP)", ChemE-as-Code process library, version a3c52e4.
BibTeX
@unpublished{schweidtmann_process_atlas,
author = {Schweidtmann, Artur M. and Weber, Jana M.},
title = {{Process Atlas: an open, git-native, reproducible library and life cycle inventory of chemical processes (working title)}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://atlas.cheme-as-code.org},
note = {in preparation}
}Schweidtmann, A. M. (2026). ChemE-as-Code: An Open-Source Platform for Agentic AI in Chemical Engineering. arXiv:2611.07947. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2611.07947
BibTeX
@misc{schweidtmann_cheme_as_code,
author = {Schweidtmann, Artur M.},
title = {{ChemE-as-Code: An Open-Source Platform for Agentic AI in Chemical Engineering}},
year = {2026},
eprint = {2611.07947},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2611.07947},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07947}
}