Waste to energy technologies in India: A review

Abstract

In recent past years,municipal solid waste generation and management are the challenging problem to the developing countries. However, waste to energy technologies are used to produce various by-products like electricity, heat, compost and biofuels. The present study focuses on different waste to energy technologies used in India along with their working status in different states and union territories of the country.The waste to energy technologies mainly are incineration, pyrolysis, gasification, composting and anaerobic decomposition. Furthermore, it also assesses the future aspects of waste to energy in India.