Table 3.
Environmental impacts for the MSW thermal conversion, per functional unit.
| Impact categories | Environmental quantities |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Incineration | Regular gasification | Plasma gasification | |
| GWP (kg CO2 eq.) | −170.9 | 27 | −31 |
| EP (kg PO43− eq.) | −38.6 × 10−3 | −2.32 × 103 | −1.55 × 103 |
| AP (kg SO2 eq.) | −24.2 × 10−2 | −39.9 × 10−2 | −39.7 × 10−2 |
| ODP (kg R11 eq.) | −1.16 × 10−10 | 2.08 × 10−8 | −2.13 × 10−8 |
| ADPelements (kg Sb eq.) | −50.1 × 10−6 | −9.35 × 10−6 | −1.62 × 10−5 |
| ADPfossil (MJ) | −2.00 × 103 | 240 | −382 |
| FAETP (kg DCB eq.) | −26.7 × 10−2 | 1.86 × 10−3 | −6.41 × 10−2 |
| MAETP (kg DCB eq.) | −26.3 × 103 | −3.12 × 105 | −2.14 × 105 |
| TETP (kg DCB eq.) | −59 × 10−3 | 1.45 × 10−2 | −2.95 × 10−2 |
| HTP (kg DCB eq.) | −7.45 | −21.8 | −14.7 |
| POCP (kg C2H4 eq.) | −4.29 × 10−2 | −2.33 × 10−2 | −2.23 × 10−2 |