Assessment of Renewable Energy and Emissions from Domestic Sewage Treatment in Brazil

Fatima Aparecida de Morais Lino; Kamal Abdel Radi Ismail

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Assessment of Renewable Energy and Emissions from Domestic Sewage Treatment in Brazil

Fatima Aparecida de Morais Lino, Kamal Abdel Radi Ismail

Published in International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering (Volume 3, Issue 5)

Received: 25 September 2014 Accepted: 29 October 2014 Published: 10 November 2014

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Abstract

With the growth of the world population, in recent decades, the generation of domestic sewage has increased. In Brazil about 28 million cubic meters of sewage are generated daily and needs to be collected and treated. This task has been one of the biggest challenges for municipal administrators. Disposition of domestic sewage without treatment is a risk to public health and environment. This paper presents scenarios for treatment of domestic sewage with energy recovery and minimization of environmental impacts based on the biodigestion and incineration with the objective of demonstrating to the public administrators the economic and environmental energy potential. The results show that the electrical energy from the biodigestion of sewage sludge is equivalent to the consumption of 1.5 million households and electricity resulting from incineration corresponds to consumption of 1.3 million homes while the emissions are about 0.875 MtCO2 per year compared to 3.585 MtCO2/year released in the biological treatment. In addition, in both processes of treatments, it is possible to recover half of the volume of wastewater for reuse. In this way, adequate treatment of domestic sewage can protect the environment from the drastic charges of sewage while being a source of energy and water, which are indispensable assets for maintenance of life on the planet.

Published in	International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering (Volume 3, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijepe.20140305.16
Page(s)	254-260
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2014. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Domestic Sewage, Wastewater, Biodigestion, Incineration, Energy, Emission

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Fatima Aparecida de Morais Lino, Kamal Abdel Radi Ismail. (2014). Assessment of Renewable Energy and Emissions from Domestic Sewage Treatment in Brazil. International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering, 3(5), 254-260. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijepe.20140305.16

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Fatima Aparecida de Morais Lino; Kamal Abdel Radi Ismail. Assessment of Renewable Energy and Emissions from Domestic Sewage Treatment in Brazil. Int. J. Energy Power Eng. 2014, 3(5), 254-260. doi: 10.11648/j.ijepe.20140305.16

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Fatima Aparecida de Morais Lino, Kamal Abdel Radi Ismail. Assessment of Renewable Energy and Emissions from Domestic Sewage Treatment in Brazil. Int J Energy Power Eng. 2014;3(5):254-260. doi: 10.11648/j.ijepe.20140305.16

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Fatima Aparecida de Morais Lino

Energy Department, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, State University of Campinas, Bar?o Geraldo, Campinas, Brazil
Kamal Abdel Radi Ismail

Energy Department, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, State University of Campinas, Bar?o Geraldo, Campinas, Brazil

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