Nat Aniekwu

Municipal solid waste has become more challenging to manage as the population and the use for land increases, the estimation of the energy value of waste is essential to the409kj management of the solid municipal waste and the production of wealth to the community. the aim is to estimate the amount of energy by the waste produced the designated study area can produce using Dulong’s formula, In the study, the energy valued waste was collected from the faculty of engineering of the University of Benin, Benin city, Edo state. Different waste components, such as food, plastic, papers, agricultural and wood waste were collected and there elemental components such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulphur, potassium and nitrogen were analysed to get the dry weight, wet weight, Percentage of mass base, moisture content, chemical compositions, molar mass, chemical formula and the energy content The Estimating of energy content from municipal waste was performed successfully, all objectives were accomplished, the examination of the composition of municipal waste was performed and we discovered the percentage dry mass basis of each component, the percentage mass of each of the component of solids where determined, the overall moisture content was also determined from the sample collected and the energy value was calculated to be 897.409kj, the sustainability was checked and it was discovered that it could generate about 4.01% of energy needed for the University which is a great way of converting waste to wealth.