Waste-to-Energy Plants in Japan

Adachi Location: Tokyo Operator: Clean Association of Tokyo 23 Configuration: 1 X 16.2 MW CHP Operation: ?? Fuel: refuse Incinerator/boiler supplier: Ebara T/G supplier: ?? Quick Facts: This plant has the Ebara HPCC21 stoker combustion system which features horizontal step grates . The equipment also achieves detoxification, recycling, and volume reduction of incineration ash with its plasma ash melting furnace. Photograph courtesy of Clean Association of Tokyo 23 Posted 7 Jan 2009	Ariake Location: Tokyo Operator: Clean Association of Tokyo 23 Configuration: 1 X 5.6 MW CHP Operation: ?? Fuel: refuse Incinerator/boiler supplier: ?? T/G supplier: MHI Quick Facts: The Ariake complex is connected to Japan's first pneumatic waste-transport piping network. Photograph courtesy of Clean Association of Tokyo 23 Posted 7 Jan 2009	Chiba Location: Japan Operator: JFE Holdings Configuration: 1 X 1.5 MW Operation: 1999 Fuel: refuse-derived syngas E/G supplier: Jenbacher Quick Facts: The Thermoselect system produces syngas, useable mineral substances, and iron rich materials from mixed wastes. Kawasaki Steel Corp (now JFE Holdings) signed a license agreement with Thermoselect in Nov 1997 and began construction on the 300tpd Chiba facility in Jun 1998. NEDO provided financial assistance. The plant mainly supplies syngas to a combined-cycle plant at the adjacent East Japan steel works. Photograph courtesy of Thermoselect Posted 3 Apr 2005
Chitose Location: Tokyo Operator: Clean Association of Tokyo 23 Configuration: 1 X 12 MW CHP Operation: ?? Fuel: refuse Incinerator/boiler supplier: Kawasaki T/G supplier: ?? Photograph courtesy of Clean Association of Tokyo 23 Posted 7 Jan 2009	Maishima Location: Osaka Operator: Osaka City Environmental Protection Bureau Configuration: 1 X 32 MW Operation: 2001 Fuel: refuse Boiler supplier: Von Roll T/G supplier: ?? EPC: Hitachi-Zosen Quick Facts: After a visit to Vienna's Spittlelau WTE plant, the Mayor of Osaka decided that the city's new WTE plant should also have an exterior treatments designed by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. The plant handles about 900 tpd of MSW and is built on a man-made island. Photograph courtesy of City of Vienna Posted 8 Dec 2004	Mutsu Location: Aomori Operator: Mitsubishi Materials Corp Configuration: 2 X 1.2 MW Operation: 2003 Fuel: refuse-derived syngas E/G supplier: Jenbacher Photograph courtesy of Thermoselect Posted 3 Apr 2005
	Tobu Location: Fukuoka Operator: Fukuoka Clean Energy Corp Configuration: 1 X 29.2 MW CHP Operation: 2005 Fuel: refuse Incinerator/boiler supplier: Kawasaki T/G supplier: Kawasaki Quick facts: Fukuoka Clean Energy was set up by Fukuoka City (51%) and Kyushu Electric Power (49%) in Oct 2000 and the Tobu plant commissioned in Aug 2005. Development Bank of Japan structured a funding arrangement between the owners and a banking syndicate. The three-line facility processes 900 tpd of municipal waste. Photograph courtesy of Kyushu Electric Power Co Posted 4 Apr 2009

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