Waste-to-Energy Plants Elsewhere

Burnaby
Location: Canada
Operator: Montenay Inc
Configuration: 1 X 25 MW
Operation: 1988-2003
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator supplier: Martin/B&W
T/G supplier: Alstom
Quick facts: Burnaby is an 800 tpd WTE plant owned by the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD). The incinerator was completed in 1988 and has been selling steam to a nearby paper recycling facility to replace the use of natural gas. A steam set was added in 2003 along with an air-cooled condenser. The plant has three processing lines.

Photograph courtesy of Montenay Inc
Posted 12 Nov 2003

CACEM UTVD
Location: French West Indies
Operator: Martiniquaise de Valorisation
Configuration: 1 X 7.2 MW
Operation: 2002
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Vinci, CTC
T/G supplier: ??
EPC: Vinci, SDEM
Quick Facts: This facility is near Fort-de-France, Martinique, and was commissioned in Jul 2002. It is owned by CACEM (Communaute d'Agglomeration du Centre de la Martinique), but operated by a private company. Design throughput is 112,000tpy of MSW on two treatment lines. A third line is being considered.

Photograph courtesy of SDEM Entreprises
Posted 5 Oct 2008

Kajang
Location: Malaysia
Operator: Recycle Energy Sdn Bhd
Configuration: 1 X 8.9 MW
Operation: 2009
Fuel: RDF
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Maxitherm
Turbine supplier: Shin, AVK
EPC: Worley
Quick Facts: Kajang is in Semenyih 13km from Kuala Lumpur. It is the only operational WTE plant in Malaysia. Throughput is approx 1,100 tpd of MSW, processed into fluff at the facility. About 5 MW is available for export to the grid. Main equipment for the plant was sourced from China (baghouse), France (CEMs), Germany (generator), India (controls, condenser, and panels), Indonesia (bolier, to DanBolier (DK) design), Japan (turbine), Malaysia (blowers and fans, BOP), and the US (governor).

Photograph courtesy of Power
Posted 10 Dec 2010

La Colette
Location: Jersey
Operator: Jersey Transport and Technical Services
Configuration: 1 X 10.2 MW
Operation: 2011
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: CNIM
Turbine supplier: ??
EPC: CNIM, Camerons Ltd, Spie Batignolles TPCI, Fichtner
Quick Facts: The £120mn La Colette EFW project was approved on 9 Jul 2008 and construction got underway in Feb 2009. First waste was burned in Feb 2011. This was the largest capital project ever for the States of Jersey. An existing WTE plant will be closed after the new unit is fully operational.

Photograph courtesy of Camerons Ltd
Posted 12 Mar 2012

MSZ-3
Location: Russia
Operator: OOO EVN-Ekotechprom MSZ 3
Configuration: 1 X 10.9 MW CHP
Operation: 2007
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Standardkessel, Podoloski
T/G supplier: TGM Kanis
EPC: Abfallverwertung Niederosterreich
Quick Facts: Construction of the MSZ-3 project started in Mar 2005 and EVN has contracted to operate the plant until 2019, after which ownership will pass to the City of Moscow. The plant has two lines and a design throughput of 360,000 tpy of municipal waste. The new plant was constructed on the site of a former waste disposal plant which, after operating for more than 20 years, had to be dismantled almost in its entirety. Final acceptance was on 27 Sep 2007 and it was officially opened on 15 Dec 2007 by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzkov. The total investment was about €175mn.

Photograph courtesy of EVN
Posted 1 Nov 2009

Shadnagar
Location: India
Operator: Selco International Ltd
Configuration: 1 X 6.6 MW
Operation: 2003
Fuel: RDF
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Walchandnagar
Turbine supplier: Triveni, BHEL
EPC: Keppel Seghers
Quick Facts: This facility in Andhra Pradesh is the only operational WTE plant in India. Selco has a 20yr PPA with APTRANSCO at Rs3.48/kWh and connects to the grid through a 33/11kV substation. The plant went commercial in Nov 2003.

Photograph courtesy of Selco International Ltd
Posted 14 Nov 2010

St-Barthelemy
Location: French West Indies
Operator: Ouanalao Environnement SA
Configuration: 1 X 4.5 MWt
Operation: 2001
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Bouillet
Quick Facts: St-Barthelemy is a 25 km² island north of Guadeloupe with about 7,000 inhabitants. The plant has a single line with an oscillating kiln handling 36 tpd of MSW, the island’s entire output. It is coupled to a thermal seawater desalination plant run by UCDEM that is capable of supplying up to 1,350m³ per day of potable water, meeting local requirements even at the height of the tourist season.

Photograph courtesy of Groupe Tiru
Posted 7 Apr 2007

Tuas
Location: Singapore
Operator: Keppel Seghers
Configuration: 1 X 30 MW
Operation: 2009
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Keppel Seghers, Shanghai
Turbine supplier: Siemens
EPC: Keppel Seghers, Jurong Engineering, SEPCO No 3
Quick Facts: In Oct 2006, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for Singapore’s fifth WTE plant, a design-build-operate 22-MW project undertaken by Keppel Seghers. Design through-put is 800 tpd of solid waste, about 48% of Singapore’s waste output. The plant went commercial in Nov 2009.

Photograph courtesy of Keppel Seghers
Posted 27 Jan 2010

Tuas South
Location: Singapore
Operator: National Environment Agency
Configuration: 2 X 23 MW
Operation: 1986
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: MHI
Turbine supplier: MHI, Meidensha
EPC: Mitsubishi, Commonwealth Engineers Co Ltd, JDC Corp

Image courtesy of JDC Corp
Posted 27 Jan 2010

Abbreviations

Data: industcards, Platts UDI World Electric Power Plants Data Base

Updated 05-Nov-2011

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