The treatment of MSW according to suggested MBT technology would reduce the amount of incinerated waste by 90%. The calculated yearly energy generation of incinerated waste fuel (without accounting for incineration efficiency) is presented in Fig. 2.
Heat generation efficiency of the modern waste incineration boilers is approximately 80% [16]. Assuming that only waste collected in Kaunas city would be incinerated, this alternative would yield only 2.4-2.8% of the heat distribution network’s capacity of Kaunas Heat and Power Plant in the case of Scenario 1, and 2.1-2.4% and 2.4-3.2% in scenarios 2 and 3, respectively.