Master's thesis of Engineering: Life cycle assessment of the management of residual waste from material recovery facilities by landfill, incineration and gasification-pyrolysis in Victoria

The goal of this thesis is to evaluate and compare the environmental impacts of alternative thermal treatments processing MRF residual waste in Victoria. By doing so the following objectives are to be addressed: The development of a baseline model of existing waste management systems, including all inputs and outputs from transportation, reprocessing and waste treatment in landfill; The development of alternative waste management systems models (including gasification-pyrolysis and incineration with energy recovery for electricity production) against the baseline model of landfill; To assess and compare the environmental performance of these three waste management systems;…