Municipal solid waste to electricity recommendations for project in Bangkok, Thailand

Technical Report · Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:6342396

Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is charged with the responsibility of public cleansing and waste disposal in the metropolitan area. BMA operates 600 trucks which collect the waste twice a day and dump it at its three sites located in the Huai Kwong, Bangkok Noi and Rataburana districts. Presently these trucks collect 3,000 metric tons of garbage per day. At the waste dump sites, which are rapidly overflowing, BMA presently operates four compost plants, three with input capacity of 320 tons per day each and a fourth which uses about 160 tons of garbage per day--thus utilizing about 1,120 tons of garbage per day. Creation of new sites would require going even farther away from the city, resulting in excessive transportation costs.

• Research Organization: Engineering and Economics Research, Inc., Vienna, VA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6342396
• Report Number(s): PB-99-141772/XAB
• Resource Relation: Other Information: See also PB99-141764 and PB99-141780
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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