POLLACK PERIODICA An International Journal for Engineering Structures and Information Sciences DOI: 10.1556/Pollack……… Vol. xz, No. xx, pp. xx–xx (2006) www.akademiai.com WASTE OR ENERGY? 1 Dr Valeria Nagy, 2Prof. Dr. Attila Meggyes 1 Department of Technical Institute, Faculty of Engineering, University of Szeged, Mars tér 7., H-6724 Szeged, Hungary, e-mail: valinagy78@mk.u-szeged.hu 2 Department of Energy Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Műegyetem rkp. 3., H-1111 Budapest, Hungary, e-mail: meggyes@energia.bme.hu Received 2 January 2012; accepted 12 March 2012 Abstract: Production and utilization of renewable energy sources are justified not only by energy-political, but by environmental aspects too. It can be verified the necessity of the complex ecological aspects by biogas production experiments and its utilization tests in gas engines therefore we created a complex biogas production and utilization system, so that both the energy and the environmental goals can be achieved together. In the interest of an optimal solution it is necessary to analyze the two objective functions (the production and utilization functions) together, considering that the principle of the complex optimization focuses just on the environmental-friendly energy utilization. The centre of the system is the integrated wastemanagement. Its advantages are the local and global environmental results, energy production independent of external influences, as well as a near optimum solution ecologically. Keywords: complex system, energy production, waste-management References [1] [2] [3] [4] Crookes R. J.: Comparative bio-fuel performance in internal combustion engines; In: Biomass and Bioenergy, Vol. 30, Issue 5, May 2006, pp. 461-468 Gunaseelan V. N.: Anaerobic digestion of biomass for methane production: A review; In: Biomass & Bioenergy 1997/13(1-2), pp. 83-114 Huang J., Crookes R. J.: Assessment of simulated biogas as a fuel for spark ignition engine; In: Fuel, Vol. 77, Issue 15, 1998, pp. 1793-1801 Mata-Alvarez J., Mace S., Llabres P.: Anaerobic digestion of organic solid wastes. In: Biores Technol 2000/74, pp. 3-16 HU ISSN 1788-1994 © 2006 Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest