Energos Gasification Plant Case Studies
More Plants are Being Developed by Specialist in Waste Gasification

Energos has a 12-year track record at its six Northern Euro¬pean advanced thermal conversion facilities. The recent open¬ing of its Isle of Wight plant brought the total of operational plants to seven with an eighth on target to open next year in Norway.

Five UK plants - others are at Newport, Irvine, Lincolnshire and Knowsley - are expected to begin operation in 2012. The Newport, Irvine and Doncaster projects are all in partnership with Biogen Power which has plans to build a further nine En¬ergos plants in the UK.

Energos Gasification Plant Isle of Wight

This plant is the first UK plant and is now operational.

Energos Gasification Plant at Forus

The Energos plant at Forus (Stavanger) in Norway is a powerful illustration of how gasification technology can play a pivotal role in a local waste management strategy. 

Energos Gasification Plant Stavanger Region

In the Stavanger region (population 275,000), kerbside collections of paper/card, garden and kitchen waste, together with recycling at “bring sites” enabled the area to achieve 56 per cent recycling in 2006. Of the regional municipal solid waste (MSW), 32 per cent was delivered as residual waste and treated at the Energos plant. In addition to residual MSW the plant also received some commercial waste, taking 18 per cent of its capacity.

From a total dependence on landfill, only 10 per cent of the MSW collected in 2006 was sent to landfill. The 40,000 tonnes per annum energy from waste plant has been providing an important community function since opening in 2002. The recovered energy provides electricity into the local grid and hot water into a district heating system for an adjacent industrial and commercial estate.

The 30,000 tonnes per annum Energos plant at Averøy in the Nordmore region of Norway opened early in 2000 - serving  a population of just 66,000 people. In 2004 the region produced 32,000 tonnes of MSW of which 26% was recycled and 19% (of which one third was inert) was sent to landfill. Of the MSW collected, 50% was residual waste treated by the plant and as an established regional waste treatment facility it treats waste from the commercial sector too. The majority of recovered energy goes as steam to an adjacent fish feed factory, displacing fossil fuel previously used in its boiler and helping to support the local fish farming industry.

Energos Gasification Plant Knowsley, Merseyside

The company has recently submitted a planning application to build a further facility in Knowsley, Merseyside which would form part of the recently awarded Integrated Waste Management PFI Contract for the sity.

The application by Energos is for a £40m plant to convert non-recyclable waste into green elec­tricity for up to 10,000 homes and for local industry. The fa­cility would be an international training centre for Energos.  

The proposed scheme would use patented gasification tech­nology involving a two-stage process that converts the waste into a gas by using the heat of partial combustion. The gas is then fully combusted to gener­ate heat which is used to pro­duce steam and electricity.

Last month residents and busi­nesses were invited to open days to find out more about the scheme and put their questions to Energos. More than 60 people attended open days and their feedback was incorporated into the planning application.

 Nick Dawber, managing direc­tor at Energos, said: "We are pro­posing a community sized solu­tion for local waste that would otherwise fill up landfill sites and emit damaging greenhouse gases. We offer a proven and world class, low-emission gasifi­cation technology that can help the UK build a much needed sus­tainable waste infrastructure."

If the scheme gets the go-ahead it would take two years to build and would become only the second advanced thermal conversion plant built in the UK. The first, on the Isle of Wight, was judged by the Renewable Energy Association to be an outstanding achievement.

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