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Allington Quarry
Location: Kent
Operator: Kent Enviropower Ltd
Configuration: 1 X 51 MW
Operation: 2007
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Lurgi
T/G supplier: Siemens
EPC: Lurgi, Hochtief
Quick Facts: This is the largest single-unit WTE plant in the UK. Throughput is 500,000 tpy of municipal refuse and the
facility will also supply up to 65,000 tpy of sorted materials for recycling. In 2000, Kent County Council granted planning permission for the
project, which is sited in an abandoned ragstone quarry, and the
Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control permit from the Environment
Agency was granted in 2002. Kent Enviropower is part of Waste Recycling
Group Ltd, which worked with turnkey project contractor and CFB boiler supplier Lurgi, plus Fortum,
the O&M contractor, and the Royal Bank of Scotland, which helped to raise
over £150mn in funding.
Photograph courtesy of Kent Enviropower
Posted 10 Jan 2007 |
Bolton
Location: Lancashire
Operator: Greater Manchester Waste Ltd
Configuration: 1 X 10 MW
Operation: 2000
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Volund
T/G supplier: Ansaldo
Quick Facts: The plant was converted from a mass-burn incinerator to a WTE
plant in 2000. The capacity of the plant is about 120,000 tons MSW/yr.
Photograph courtesy of Greater Manchester Waste Ltd
Posted 16 Aug 2003 |
Chineham
Location: Hampshire
Operator: Veolia ES Hampshire Ltd
Configuration: 1 X 8 MW
Operation: 2003
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: CNIM
T/G supplier: ??
Quick Facts: The capacity of the
plant is about 90,000 tons MSW/yr. This is the first of three WTE plants
developed as part of the Hampshire Waste Strategy known as ‘Project
Integra’. This is a partnership between Hampshire County Council, the
cities of Southampton and Portsmouth, 11 District Councils, and Hampshire
Waste Services, part of Veolia Environmental.
Photograph courtesy of Veolia Environmental Services plc
Posted 24 Nov 2004 |
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Coventry
Location: Warwickshire
Operator: Coventry & Solihull Waste Disposal
Configuration: 1 X 12.9 MW, 1 X 4.5 MW
Operation: 1992-2000
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Martin
T/G supplier: GEC
Quick Facts: This is a two-line plant
with a capacity of about 250,000 tons MSW/yr.
Photograph courtesy of Coventry & Solihull Waste Disposal
Posted 30 Oct 2004 |
Dudley
Location: Staffordshire
Operator: Dudley Waste Services Ltd
Configuration: 1 X 7.4 MW
Operation: 1998
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: CNIM
T/G supplier: ??
Quick Facts: CNIM and Martin Engineering Systems won the build/own/operate contract for
this facility in 1994 and formed the project company. Dudley Waste
Services is jointly owned by CNIM (39%) and two private investors,
Innisfree and CIBC.
The plant has a capacity of about 90,000 tpy
of MSW.Photograph courtesy of
PPP Forum Ltd
Posted 4 Nov 2004 |
Grimsby
Location: Lincolnshire
Operator: NewLincs Development Ltd
Configuration: 1 X 3.45 MW CHP
Operation: 2004
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Bouillet
T/G supplier: Peter Brotherhood
EPC: Earth Tech
Quick Facts: In Dec 1999, Tiru won a 25yr disposal and recycling contract
from the North East Lincolnshire Council. Planning permission for a new
WTE plant was granted in Jan 2001 and construction started in Feb 2002. Up
to 56,000 tpy of MSW is burned in a single incineration line with a Cyclergie oscillating kiln.
All heat and electricity is sold to an adjacent industrial estate.
Grimsby has a dry FGD system.
Photograph courtesy of Groupe Tiru
Posted 7 Apr 2007 |
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Lerwick
Location: Shetland Islands
Operator: Shetland Heat Energy and Power Ltd
Configuration: 7 MWt (heat only)
Operation: 1999
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: ??
EPC: Bruun & Sørensen Energiteknik AS
Quick Facts: Project development by the Shetland Island Council started in
1993. The plant cost £10mn. MSW throughput is about 22,000 tpy and heat is supplied to around 1,100
homes and businesses. The plant DCS was changed out in 2010.
Photograph courtesy of Shetland Islands Council
Posted 20 Mar 2011 |
Marchwood
Location: Hampshire
Operator: Veolia Environmental Services
Configuration: 1 X 14 MW
Operation: 2004
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: CNIM
T/G supplier: ??
EPC: CNIM
Quick Facts: This WTE plant has a unique exterior treatment consisting of a 36m high, 110m diameter hemispherical
structure clad in aluminum. The two 65m chimneys rise from the center and the base has a skirt of windows. The plant
has a capacity of about 165,000 tpy of MSW.
Photograph courtesy of
Veolia Environmental Services
Posted 12 Feb 2006 |
Portsmouth
Location: Hampshire
Operator: Veolia Environmental Services
Configuration: 1 X 14 MW
Operation: 2005
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: CNIM
T/G supplier: ??
EPC: CNIM
Quick Facts: The Portsmouth ERF cost
£50mn.
The plant has a capacity of about 165,000 tpy
of MSW.
Photograph courtesy of
Veolia Environmental Services
Posted 20 Feb 2006 |
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SELCHP
Location: Middlesex
Operator: Onyx Selchp
Configuration: 1 X 31 MW
Operation: 1994
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Steinmuller
T/G supplier: ABB
EPC: Martin Engineering
Quick Facts: In 1988, the London Boroughs of Lewisham,
Southwark and Greenwich joined together develop this WTE plant.
It has a capacity of about 420,000 tpy of MSW.
Photograph courtesy of
Onyx Selchp
Posted 3 Nov 2004 |
Teeside WTE
Location: Durham
Operator: SITA UK
Configuration: 1 X 19.2 MW
Operation: 1998
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Volund
T/G supplier: Ansaldo
Quick facts: This plant is a joint venture between SITA UK and the four
Teesside local authorities of Stockton, Middlesborough, Redcar & Cleveland, and Hartlepool. The plant has two furnace lines
and a processing capacity
of 250,000 tpy of MSW.
Photograph courtesy of
Babcock & Wilcox Volund
Posted 30 Oct 2004 |
Thetford
Location: Norfolk
Operator: Fibrothetford Ltd
Configuration: 1 X 38.5 MW
Operation: 1998
Fuel: poultry litter
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: FW, Detroit Stoker
T/G supplier: Ansaldo
EPC: Taylor-Woodrow
Quick Facts: Thetford is the world's third poultry litter fired power
station and burns over 400,000 tpy of poultry litter. At completion,
the £70mn project was the largest yet built under NFFO.
Photograph courtesy of
Fibrowatt Ltd
Posted 15 Mar 2001 |
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Tyseley
Location: Warwickshire
Operator: Veolia Environmental Services
Configuration: 1 X 28 MW
Operation: 1996
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Steinmuller
T/G supplier: ??
Quick Facts: The first waste incinerator at Tyseley went online in 1928 and
a more modern facility was built in the 1970s. In 1994, a £95mn
redevelopment of the site got underway including a new WTE plant. This
was finished in Aug 1996 after 29mos of construction and shortly
afterwards, the old plant was retired to comply with new EU air quality
regulations. An award winning lighting system illuminates the
plant at night. The two-stream incinerator has a combined capacity of over
350,000 tpy of MSW and a 15yr Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation (NFFO) contract.
A separate clinical waste incinerator shares the gas cleaning equipment
with the main plant.
Photograph courtesy of
Veolia Environmental Services
Posted 20 Feb 2006 |
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Westfield
Location: Fife
Operator: Energy Power Resources Ltd
Configuration: 1 X 11.8 MW
Operation: 2000
Fuel: poultry litter
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Austrian Energy
T/G supplier: Austrian Energy
EPC: Abengoa
Quick facts: This £18mn facility was Scotland's first modern biofuels
power plant. It has a BFB boiler and burns up to 110,000 tpy of chicken
litter.
Photograph by Ingo Tschanun of AE
Energietechnik
Posted 21 Oct 2001
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