About ZWEDC Webtool
ZWEDC Webtool provides an interactive visualization of atmospheric dispersion of odorous compounds emitted from ZWEDC waste-to-energy site in Alviso, San Jose, CA.
- Odor is very subjective. Unpleasant odors in the 5 to 10 ou/m^3 range usually trigger complaints.
- Odor emission rates from various processing stages are estimated from ZWEDC, a dry Anaerobic Digestion facility with a full capacity of 90,000 ton/year of organic waste.
- Map represents the top 2 percentile in the distribution of the simulated odor concentrations over a three year period.
- No outdoor composting is currently present onsite. A hypothetical onsite outdoor composting emission is estimated based on bagged outdoor composting as practiced at ZBest.
The input data for this visualization tool is described in the
Final Project Repoert: Enabling Anaerobic Digestion Deployment to Convert Municipal Solid Waste to Energy
CEC report cec-500-2020-011
Application accessible at:
https://zwedc.lbl.gov
Further details, please see
"Environmental and community impact assessment of operations at an organic waste-to-energy facility"
Poster presented at the
AGU 2019 Conference in SF
This web-based application is a
collaboration of
Energy Technology Area
and
Scientific Computing
at
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
By:
Tin Ho, Wei Zhou, Ling Jin, Tyler Huntington, Corinne Scown.
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