CE Study

Amsterdam, June 15th, 2011. The study compares the climate effects of the processing of coarse rejects from the paper industry by the Subcoal® route with incineration of the rejects in a waste incineration plant (WIP). A previous study by CE Delft (2000) revealed that for the paper plastic fraction of household waste, the Subcoal® route has a better climate and overall environmental score as compared to the incineration in a waste incineration plant. This new report shows how the climate change comparison between the Subcoal® and WIP route works out for coarse rejects from the paper industry. Also for coarse rejects from the paper industry the Subcoal® route has a significant lower impact on climate change than the WIP route. Per tonne of reject the Subcoal® route avoids 828 kilo CO2 extra as compared to an average WIP and 545 kilo CO2 as compared to high performance WIP

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For the production of lime this means that co-firing Subcoal® at 30% (on caloric base), the CO2 emission of the lime production process can be reduced by 17-18%. The study ‘Climate analysis Subcoal’ will be published on Wednesday June 15th 2011 on: http://www.cedelft.eu -> Publications -> Reports
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