Systems analysis for the development of small resource recovery systems: description of solid waste modular simulator. Final report

Technical Report · Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6928708· OSTI ID:6928708

Crnkovich, P G; Helmstetter, A J

The technologies that should be developed to make small-scale solid waste processing facilities attractive and viable for small municipalities with solid waste between 50 and 250 tons per day are identified. The resource recovery systems investigated were divided into three categories: mechanical separation, thermal and thermochemical energy recovery, and bioconversion processes. This report describes the Solid Waste Modular Simulator (SWIMS), a computer program for simulating the performance of solid waste processing/resource recovery systems. The current program data enables the simulation of systems with design throughput rates of 100 and 200 TPD of solid waste. Systems with larger throughput capacities can also be simulated by supplying the program with their performance data. The main line of this program is basicaly an accounting routine which totals the costs, revenues, and mass balances for all components in a simulated waste processing line. In addition, the main line controls the input of all information required to execute the program and the output of the resultant system performance data. (MCW)

• Research Organization: Systems Technology Corp., Xenia, OH (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-77CS20026
• OSTI ID: 6928708
• Report Number(s): DOE/CS/20026-01(Vol.2)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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