[en] The escalating crisis of waste mismanagement underscores the need for innovative treatment strategies, highlighting the inadequacy of conventional evaluation methods in the face of evolving waste management techniques. This study introduces a robust tool applying two decision-making methodologies to an existing multi-objective optimization framework. This framework can assess various waste-to-resource transformation processes, which was applied to the case of mixed plastic waste management within the circular economy. It yielded a set of 16 Pareto optimal recycling pathways according to four competitive objectives. Here, this new decision-making tool is applied to those Pareto solutions using user inputs as weight parameters to systematically rank them according to criteria weighting. Eventually, its capability is tested by a sensitivity analysis, assessing the robustness of solutions.
Disciplines :
Chemical engineering
Author, co-author :
Cabo, Virgil; Department of Chemical Engineering, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium ; Department of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Pacheco-López, Adrián; Department of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Léonard, Grégoire ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Department of Chemical Engineering > PEPs - Products, Environment, and Processes
Espuña, Antonio; Department of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Language :
English
Title :
Optimizing Circular Economy Pathways: MultiCriteria Decision-Making Tool for Chemical Recycling of Plastic Wastes
ERDF - European Regional Development Fund EC - European Commission
Funding text :
Grant CEPI, PID2020-116051RB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and \u201CERDF A way of making Europe\u201D, by the \u201CEuropean Union\u201D.
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