PMID- 35404762
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220902
LR  - 20221026
IS  - 2162-2906 (Electronic)
IS  - 1096-2247 (Linking)
VI  - 72
IP  - 9
DP  - 2022 Sep
TI  - Site selection of municipal solid waste incineration plant using GIS and 
      multicriteria decision analysis.
PG  - 1027-1039
LID - 10.1080/10962247.2022.2064002 [doi]
AB  - Fast population growth and urbanization has increased the generation of municipal 
      solid waste in Oman. Currently, Oman relies on landfills to handle growing 
      amounts of waste, which has burdened the existing solid waste management 
      infrastructure. This situation calls for establishing incineration plants that 
      can considerably reduce the volume of waste, and can simultaneously produce 
      electricity. However, one of the crucial steps in the planning of an incineration 
      plant is the selection of an appropriate site that can overcome environmental and 
      economic implications and eliminate community dissatisfaction. Therefore, to 
      select an optimal site for incineration plant in Muscat and South Batinah 
      governorates, where landfills receive the highest waste amounts per day, this 
      research identified 11 criteria that cover the environmental, economic, and 
      social concerns. These criteria were processed by combining the multicriteria 
      decision making (MCDM) method and geographical information system (GIS) software 
      where the suitability of individual criteria were evaluated and then integrated 
      using the weighted overlay analysis to generate a final suitability map for 
      incineration site selection. The final suitability map indicated that only 2% of 
      the land is suitable for setting up an incineration plant in the study area, and 
      the most suitable location with adequate area was found in Barka wilaya of South 
      Batinah governorate.Implications: Due to the escalation in MSW generation, Oman 
      is looking for alternative strategies to reduce the volume of MSW. This has led 
      to country's interest in establishing a waste-to-energy plant (particularly 
      incineration) in the future. However, locating a suitable site for the 
      installation of an MSW incineration plant in Oman has never been studied before. 
      Therefore, to bridge the gap in knowledge, this research focuses on selecting a 
      suitable site for a municipal solid waste incineration plant using GIS and 
      multicriteria decision analysis. This study highlights the suitability of Muscat 
      and North Batinah governorates of Oman where landfills receive huge amounts of 
      MSW on a daily basis and are close to becoming saturated. Moreover, the 
      suitability of land in both governorates is assessed to overcome environmental 
      and economic implications and eliminate community dissatisfaction. This research 
      not only provides the level of suitability of land in both governorates, but also 
      selects a suitable site, which will be beneficial for the government of Oman in 
      future when making a decision regarding the location of the plant.
FAU - Abushammala, Mohammed F M
AU  - Abushammala MFM
AD  - Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East College, Rusayl, Muscat, Sultanate 
      of Oman.
FAU - Qazi, Wajeeha A
AU  - Qazi WA
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1631-4683
AD  - Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East College, Rusayl, Muscat, Sultanate 
      of Oman.
FAU - Frrag, Siham
AU  - Frrag S
AD  - Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East College, Rusayl, Muscat, Sultanate 
      of Oman.
FAU - Alazaiza, Motasem Y D
AU  - Alazaiza MYD
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6957-4131
AD  - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, 
      A'Sharqiyah University, Ibra, Ash Sharqiyah North, Sultanate of Oman.
FAU - Younes, Mohammad K
AU  - Younes MK
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5548-4821
AD  - Department of Civil Engineering, Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20220613
PL  - United States
TA  - J Air Waste Manag Assoc
JT  - Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)
JID - 9503111
RN  - 0 (Solid Waste)
SB  - IM
MH  - Decision Support Techniques
MH  - Geographic Information Systems
MH  - Incineration
MH  - *Refuse Disposal/methods
MH  - *Solid Waste/analysis
MH  - Waste Disposal Facilities
EDAT- 2022/04/12 06:00
MHDA- 2022/09/03 06:00
CRDT- 2022/04/11 17:21
PHST- 2022/04/12 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/09/03 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/04/11 17:21 [entrez]
AID - 10.1080/10962247.2022.2064002 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Air Waste Manag Assoc. 2022 Sep;72(9):1027-1039. doi: 
      10.1080/10962247.2022.2064002. Epub 2022 Jun 13.