ABSTRACT
In emerging economies like India one of the major side effects of urbanization, industrialization, and globalization is the generation of huge amounts of solid waste. Biochemical conversion of organic waste into energy is more environmentally friendly, economical, and sustainable in relation to other techniques. Thermal conversion technologies integrate processes, such as incineration, gasification, and pyrolysis, that create energy in the form of electricity, fuel, or heat from solid waste. Municipal solid waste management is one of the most overlooked techniques in the area of policy and strategy making, societal awareness, and research, and is one of the major environmental crises in urban cities. Management of solid waste is one of the major issues that need to be addressed in Asian countries such as India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. Pyrolysis is the thermochemical decomposition of the organic fraction of waste in oxygen-free environment.
