Site selection of municipal solid waste incineration plant using GIS and multicriteria decision analysis

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Figure 1. Location of South Batinah and Muscat Governorate with districts. (Red lines show the boundary of wilaya/districts in the governorates of South Batinah and Muscat).

Table 1. Description and grading values of final criteria.

Criteria	Restricted areas	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Distance to sensitive land uses	<500 m	>500	Equal intervals of 200 m span								>2300
Distance to protected areas	<1000 m	>1000	Equal intervals of 200 m span								>2800
Distance from agricultural land	<500 m	500–700	Equal intervals of 200 m span								>2300
Distance from wadis/valleys	<500 m	500–600	Equal intervals of 100 m span								>1500
Distance to surface water	<1000 m	>1000	Equal intervals of 100 m span								>1900
Distance to landfills	>25,000	25,000–22500	Equal intervals of 2500 m span								<2500
Distance to electricity grid	<200	>9000	Equal intervals of 1000 m span								1000–200
Distance to road network	–	>1800	Equal intervals of 200 m span								<200
Elevation	> 360 m	360	Equal intervals of 40 m span								0–40
Terrain slope	>45°	>30–45	25–	20–	18–	15–	13–	10–	5–10		<5°
Distance from airport	>7000 m	7000–7200	Equal intervals of 200 m span								>8800
Land availability	Occupied land										Derelict land

Sources: World Bank (2000); Tavares, Zsigraiová, and Semiao (2011); WRAP, (2012); Ferretti and Pomarico (2012); Hu et al. (2015); Hassaan (2015); Feyzi et al. (2019); be’ah, personal communication, December 22, 2020; Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs (MECA) Ministerial Decision No. 17/93; Hassaan (2015).

Table 2. Data requirement for each criterion.

Criteria	Data Required	Data Source
Distance to sensitive land uses	Land use map	National Center for Statistics and Information
Distance to protected areas	Map of protected areas
Distance to agricultural land	Land use map
Distance to wadis/valleys	Land use map
Distance to surface water	Map of surface water bodies
Distance to landfill	Location of landfills	Oman Environmental Services Holding Company
Distance to electricity grid	Map of electricity grid network	Oman Electricity Transmission Company S.A.O.C
Distance to road network	Land use map	National Center for Statistics and Information
Elevation	Contour lines
Terrain slope	Contour lines
Distance to airport	Land use map
Land availability	Contour lines	Ministry of Housing and Planning

Table 3. Relative weights of criteria.

Criteria	Rank (Vs)	Weight (wv)
Distance to sensitive land uses	11	16.67
Distance to landfill	10	15.15
Distance to road network	9	13.64
Distance to wadis/valleys	8	12.12
Elevation	7	10.61
Distance to electricity grid	6	9.09
Distance to agricultural land	5	7.58
Distance to protected areas	4	6.06
Distance to surface water	3	4.55
Distance to airport	2	3.03
Terrain slope	1	1.52
Total (Tr)	66

Figure 2. Suitability ranking of individual criteria, i.e., red (0) is restricted area, 1–4 represents low suitability, 5–7 represents moderate suitability, and 8–9 is highly suitable area.

Figure 3. Suitability ranking of individual criteria, i.e., red (0) is restricted area, 1–4 represents low suitability, 5–7 represents moderate suitability, and 8–9 is highly suitable area.

Figure 4. Integrated suitability maps with candidate site.

Figure 5. Integrated suitability maps with road network.

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