A Review on the Quality of Solid Bio-Fuel Produced from Municipal Solid Waste

Municipal solid wastes (MSW) has become a menace to the environment, causing a lot of environmental challenges as a result of greenhouse gas emission which contributes to the climate change, global warming and pollution issues and this is escalating due to population increase, economic and industrialization growth. Thus, causes huge volume of MSW deposition on landfills and other areas in an uncontrolled manner thereby causing a significant environmental, economic and social challenges with a trend that will not be good for the future, couple with fossil fuel and greenhouse gas emission. Therefore, it is imperative to intensifies efforts in converting such wastes into valuable products such as solid biofuels. As so many studies reveals that MSW contains combustible materials which makes it suitable for renewable energy generation. However, MSW briquettes have emerged with a good quality such as higher heating value, less flue gas emission and ignition period compared to firewood, charcoal and sawdust briquettes. Therefore, the aim of this review is to affirms the quality of MSW in the production of solid biofuel and its gas emission which have been proven by many researchers that MSW can be transformed into fuel briquettes with less flue gas emission and high calorific value. It can be concluded that MSW is a good feedstock for solid biofuel production and can be blend with other residues in the renewable energy production to reduce the menace of greenhouse gas emission and environmental pollution.