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Table D-2 Details <strong>of</strong> calculation <strong>of</strong> the material flow <strong>of</strong> plastics <strong>in</strong> <strong>Thailand</strong>, 2010 (cont<strong>in</strong>ued)<br />

No. Description<br />

45<br />

46<br />

Industrial<br />

<strong>in</strong>c<strong>in</strong>eration<br />

(cement)<br />

Off-gas from<br />

<strong>in</strong>dustrial<br />

<strong>in</strong>c<strong>in</strong>eration<br />

Value<br />

(Tonnes/year)<br />

42,500<br />

1,316,378<br />

200<br />

Assumption and Calculation<br />

From the Geocycle company presentation <strong>in</strong> 2012, this company prepare 100,000 tonnes/year <strong>of</strong><br />

RDF for the two cement plants <strong>of</strong> Siam City Cement (SCC) company (GEOCYCLE, 2011). This<br />

amount <strong>of</strong> RDF is made from landfill excavation. From PCD report <strong>in</strong> 2010, there was 17% <strong>of</strong><br />

plastic waste <strong>in</strong> the municipal solid wastes. Thus, the composition <strong>of</strong> plastic waste <strong>in</strong> RDF is 17,000<br />

tonnes/two plants/year.<br />

Accord<strong>in</strong>g to the Department <strong>of</strong> Industrial Work (DIW) report <strong>in</strong> 2011, there were five cement<br />

plants <strong>in</strong> <strong>Thailand</strong> which use solid wastes as fuels. These five plants are from SCC, Siam Cement<br />

Group (SCG), and TPI Polene company. The assumption is 5 cement plants <strong>in</strong> <strong>Thailand</strong> use the<br />

landfilled waste as fuels.<br />

The one cement plant uses 8,500 tonnes/year <strong>of</strong> landfilled plastic waste, so the five cement plants<br />

will use 42,500 tonnes/year <strong>of</strong> landfilled plastic waste to feed <strong>in</strong> the <strong>in</strong>dustrial <strong>in</strong>c<strong>in</strong>eration.<br />

From the efficiency <strong>of</strong> municipal <strong>in</strong>c<strong>in</strong>eration at Phuket prov<strong>in</strong>ce, the amount <strong>of</strong> ash generation is<br />

15%-20% <strong>of</strong> waste feed<strong>in</strong>g (PCD, 2006). The assumption is 80% <strong>of</strong> plastic waste which is burnt <strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>in</strong>dustrial <strong>in</strong>c<strong>in</strong>eration will become <strong>of</strong>f-gas.<br />

The amount <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>f-gas generation <strong>in</strong> the <strong>in</strong>dustrial <strong>in</strong>c<strong>in</strong>eration was calculated by us<strong>in</strong>g the<br />

comb<strong>in</strong>ation <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>dustrial wastes and MSW for <strong>in</strong>c<strong>in</strong>eration before multiply<strong>in</strong>g by this percentage.<br />

Thus, <strong>of</strong>f-gas generation from <strong>in</strong>dustrial <strong>in</strong>c<strong>in</strong>eration = (42,500 +<br />

1,602,973)*0.8 = 1,316,378 tonnes/year.

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