Municipal Solid Wastes Conversion into Biomass Energy: Ordering of Technologies for the Case of Iran

Municipal waste disposal can lead to many environmental, social and economic damages requiring effective solutions to manage municipal solid waste (MSW). Moreover, biomass energy produced out MSW is considered as an important source of renewable energy. This paper is an attempt to compare and identify the priority ordering of four available technologies to convert urban waste into biofuels for the case of Iran using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method and Expert Choice software. According to the results Anaerobic Digestion gets the first rank in the priority ordering of urban waste conversion into biofuels.