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98 Evaluation of Opportunities for Converting Indigenous UK Wastes to Wastes and Energy AEA/ED45551/Issue 1 Table 50 MBT Plants in the UK 166 Name and Location Volume Operational Bursom Industrial Estate MBT plant in Leicester 150,000 tonnes p.a. The organic fraction is processed with AD (at Wanlip, see later) 2004 New Earth Solutions in Poole, Dorset 50,000 tonnes p.a. The organic fraction is composted, producing 9000 tonnes/yr. 2006 Frog Island, Rainham, Shanks Group Plc, East 180,000 tonnes p.a. 2006 London Waste Authority The material bio-dried before being biologically treated and sorted. After removal of glass, metals and aggregates the remainder is used as SRF. Jenkins Lane, Newham, East London Waste 180,000 tonnes p.a. 2007 Authority, Shanks Group The process requires bio-drying Plc before materials are refined for energy recovery. Earth Tech in Stornoway, Western Isles 21,000 tonnes p.a., Uses AD for the source separated waste and composting for the residual waste (see later) 2006 Civic Environmental Systems in 37,000 tonnes p.a. 2003 Durham Commercial development scale Ellington, 40,000 tonnes p.a. of fine, pre- 2006 Northumberland graded material Shanks Ecodeco plant in Dumfries and Galloway 60,000 tonnes p.a. 2006 At least six MBT plants are currently under construction or have planning permission already granted: • A site that will be operational within a few months is the 250,000 tonnes/yr site at Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire. Alongside this the composting capacity of the facility will double to 100,000 tonnes/yr. 167 • Two sites in Lancashire are under construction, one in Leyland near Preston, the other at Thornton near Blackpool. These will use the Global Technology (3R-UR) process and have a combined capacity of over 300,000 tonnes per annum of household waste. • Southwark MBT plant, intended to process 87,500 tonnes per annum and to be operational by 2011. The site will produce SRF (solid recovered fuel) to be burnt at the nearby SELCHP EfW plant in Lewisham. 168 • A site near Colchester, Essex has been granted permission for throughput of 250,000 tonnes per annum, with an attached AD plant capable of handling 50,000 tonnes/yr. 169 166 Mechanical Biological Treatment of Municipal Solid Waste, 2007, Defra Brief, http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/wip/newtech/pdf/mbt.pdf 167 ENDS Report, 389, June 2007, p.17, http://www.endsreport.com/index.cfm?action=report.article&articleID=17363&q=MBT%20plants&boolean_mode=all 168 ENDS Report 397, Feb 2008, p.17, http://www.endsreport.com/index.cfm?action=report.article&articleID=18636&q=MBT%20plants&boolean_mode=all
Evaluation of Opportunities for Converting Indigenous UK Wastes to Wastes and Energy AEA/ED45551/Issue 1 • The potential Westbury MBT plant in Wiltshire has been given planning permission for a 45,000 tonnes per annum site that is now due to open in 2011. 170 • Bioessence have received planning permission for a 400,000 tonne per annum plant in Merseyside as a pre-treatment step for a pyrolysis/gasification technology to generate 40 MW of electricity. The plant is scheduled to start operating in 2011. 171 Further sites that are planned, but do not yet have planning permission are a plant in West Sussex that will use the Haase process, a plant in Norwich, Norfolk which would use the Dranco process and a plant in Manchester using the BTA process. In addition the INEOS Chlor incinerator site discussed above plans to receive the 275,000 tonnes of stabilised fuel waste from five MBT and AD sites in Manchester. The contract was announced in January 2007, and funding was secured April 2009. 172 Internationally, MBT is a well established technology, with many operational facilities using a range of the processes described above. Several of the larger scale ones are detailed below in Table 51. Some of the sites also convert this fuel to electricity on site. Table 51 Examples of best practice large scale international facilities that convert MSW into SRF. City Year Capacity tonnes/yr Luebeck, 173 2005 150,000 Germany Corteolona, Italy 174 Eastern Creek, Australia 175 2004 60,000 9MW 2004 175,000 176 1.5 MW Lauta, 177 2004 225,000 20MW Germany Generation Capacity Comments 1.9MW This site uses the Haase process to sort electricity, the waste into SRF fuel, inerts, 2.3MW recyclables and an organic rich fraction, heat which is processed further using AD. This site is operated by Ecoenergia S.r.l. and uses the ‘Ecodeco’ process technology. The SRF produced is used to produce electricity. The facility is currently being expanded to 220,000 tonnes/annum. It utilises the 3R-UR process and produces three products; metals for recycling, a fuel product, and an organics rich product which is converted to compost like products onsite. This plant is part of the regional waste plan for Upper Lusatia, Lower Silesia (RAVON). The plant uses SRF derived from the local area. 169 ENDS Report 393, October 2007, p.20, http://www.endsreport.com/index.cfm?action=report.article&articleID=17938&q=MBT%20plants&boolean_mode=all 170 Wiltshire Approves Hills MBT Plant, 23 March 2009, LetsRecycle.com, http://www.letsrecycle.com/do/ecco.py/view_item?listid=37&listcatid=217&listitemid=31269 171 Plan to develop 40MW gasification plant on Merseyside. News item at www.newenergyfocus.com, 28 January 2009. 172 News item at Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority - http://www.gmwda.gov.uk/news.htm 173 173 Visit by AEA staff to Luebeck Plant, June 2008 174 Ecogergia, http://www.ecoenergia.it/ecoenergia_ing/its_termocorteolona.html 175 Eastern Creek in Sydney – A member of AEA visited this plant in 2007 176 Energent Capital, http://www.emergentcapital.com.au/globalrenewables/ 177 Lauta, http://www.industcards.com/wte-germany.htm 99
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