Using STELLA System Dynamic Model to Analyze Greenhouse Gases' Emission From Solid Waste Management in Taiwan

Conference · Wed Mar 31 04:00:00 EST 2004

OSTI ID:826141

Horng, Jao-Jia; Lee, R F; Liao, K Y

Using a system dynamic model (SDM), such as STELLA, to analyze the waste management policy is a new trial for Taiwan's research communities. We have developed an easy and relatively accurate model for analyzing the greenhouse gases emission for the wastes from animal farming and municipalities. With the local research data of the past decade, we extract the most prominent factors and assemble the SDM. The results and scenarios were compared with the national inventory. By comparing to the past data, we found these models reasonably represent the situation in Taiwan. However, SDM can program many scenarios and produce a lot of prediction data. With the development of many program control tools on STELLA, we believe the models could be further used by researchers or policy-makers to find the needed research topics, to set the future scenarios and to determine the management tools.

• Research Organization: National Yulin University of Science and Technology, Touliou (TW)
• Sponsoring Organization: Sponsor not identified (US)
• OSTI ID: 826141
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ANIMALS
COMMUNITIES
FORECASTING
GREENHOUSE GASES
MANAGEMENT
SOLID WASTES
TAIWAN
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES