International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies ISSN 2028-9324 Vol. 9 No. 3 Nov. 2014, pp. 1176-1179 © 2014 Innovative Space of Scientific Research Journals http://www.ijias.issr-journals.org/ Corresponding Author: F M Anim Hossain 1176 Model of an Improved Waste Power Plant in Dhaka Masuda Akter Tonima 1 and F M Anim Hossain 2 1 Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Stamford University Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT: The amount of waste in the developing Dhaka city is reaching a point where the Metropolitan is running out of space for discarding. This increasing waste is becoming an issue not only for the lack of space but also due to it being the cause of illness, pollution, destruction of natural beauty of the city. The city has already successfully polluted its once primary water source, the Buriganga River. In the current scenario, waste management has become an essential factor. Both quantitative and qualitative disposal is absolutely crucial. In this study a new model of a waste power plant has been proposed which will require less manpower, will create lesser pollution than existing waste power plant models and will put use to a large mass of waste that goes unused in the city. KEYWORDS: Waste Minimization, energy from waste, waste management, waste power plant, power generation. 1 INTRODUCTION The inevitable byproduct of any process of production is waste. Whether is it something as small and regular as cooking or production of something as massive as airplane; any processes is bound to produce a certain amount of waste. With the growing economy, population and urbanization this waste has equally gown in complexity as well as in amount, this not only hampers the growth in the processes causing them but also causes pollution resulting into various problems, such as: decrease in fertility of soil, increase in production of greenhouse gas, human health risks …etc. Along with this, mismanagement [e.g.: open dumping] also causes problems such as clogging the urban drainage system and contaminating the water supply. The waste is a definite by product which cannot be helped, management and disposal of the waste can definitely help decrease the degradation of the environment- this is an aspect that has been explored to a certain extent in Bangladesh. The process had begun in 1995, when a national research organization for waste concern was established. A decade later (in 2005) the Waste Concern Group was formed as a Social Business Enterprise that involved numerous social purpose companies. With the main objective of using the waste as a resource the Waste Concern put into perspective the categorization of waste and identifying the type of management involved with such. Numerous initiatives have been taken by both the Concern and the Govt. of Bangladesh; keeping the 3R strategy in mind the focus has been on the composting and reduction of the area of landmines used. Even though the concerned sectors have accomplished much to mention and is still being worked on at every level, the prospect of energy conversion and recovery has been nearly untouched. Combination of energy shortage with this gives the issue a new potential. This aspect has been explored by various countries in Europe [1]. In this paper we explore the possible ways of energy extraction from disposed waste, along with which possible improvement of existing methods of waste disposal and possible use of other renewable sources is mentioned