The employment of sustainable technologies for waste biomass conversion process: a case study

The aim of this paper is to analyse a ciclic system in which natural wastes are reintegrated in a new economic model. It will be analysed a feasibility study of a firm operating in Italy, in the agribusiness industry, which use for the energy cogeneration the biomass generated from the agricultural and livestock production. We will focus also on the economic aspects by examining the investment costs, the revenues of energy sales and the cost/benefit analysis, in order to evaluate the investment usefulness and effectiveness. Finally, it will be investigated the environmental and social utility resulting from the co-digestion and cogeneration processes.