Rapid urbanization and population growth have increased the generation of sanitary and municipal solid waste, creating challenges for collection, treatment, disposal, and environmental protection. Sanitary waste streams may include biodegradable organic matter, paper, packaging, plastics, and other nonrecyclable or contaminated materials. If waste is not segregated and treated appropriately, it can contribute to land and water pollution, greenhouse-gas emissions, public-health risks, and loss of recoverable energy. Waste-to-energy (WtE) approaches can recover useful heat, electricity, or fuel from suitable waste fractions while reducing the volume of material requiring final disposal. This report presents a conceptual design for a Sanitary Waste-to-Energy System that integrates waste segregation, preprocessing, conversion, energy recovery, and monitoring. The proposed system separates biodegradable and combustible fractions from recyclables and hazardous or biomedical materials. Depending on feedstock characteristics, conversion pathways may include anaerobic digestion for wet biodegradable waste, controlled thermal treatment for suitable dry combustible fractions, or refuse-derived fuel (RDF) preparation. Energy conversion is coupled with appropriate gas cleaning, emission control, residue handling, and safety monitoring. An IoT-based monitoring layer is proposed for measuring process temperature, pressure, moisture, pH, gas composition, flow, and energy output, with data logging and alarms through a local controller and cloud dashboard. The report discusses the motivation, literature, problem definition, existing and proposed systems, architecture, requirements, waste-conversion methodology, monitoring and cloud integration, operational reporting, algorithm, implementation plan, evaluation metrics, limitations, future scope, and references. The appropriate conversion route depends on local waste composition, contamination, moisture, scale, regulatory requirements, and economic feasibility. No specific plant capacity, measured energy yield, emission result, or experimental performance is claimed because project-specific feedstock data and test results were not supplied.
Keywords : Sanitary waste management, waste-to-energy, anaerobic digestion, biomass, refusederived fuel, thermal conversion, IoT monitoring, biogas, energy recovery, pollution control.
Author : Dr K RAJESH , D HATHIRAM , G RAMESH
Title : AN IOT-ENABLED SMART SANITARY WASTE-TO-ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM FOR SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT
Volume/Issue : 2026;03(08)
Page No : 877-887