SITA Gasification - Sita Waste Management Introduces Gasification of Municipal Solid Waste in the UK
Gasification of MSW produces a gas which is used to produce electricity from waste

In 2009 SITA UK joined up with waste control development company Cyclamax, to develop 6 gasification and recycling-led Resource Parks, which would treat over 600,000 tons of commercial and business waste annually.

The contract is among the largest ever commitments to developing gasification capacity in the United Kingdom and will produce sufficient electricity to power more than 85,000 houses.

Following public consultation all though summer 2010, SITA UK also submitted a planning application for a gasification facility at Binn Farm in October 2010.

The suggestion is for a sixty thousand tonne per annum gasification facility that may treat borough waste and little amounts of business waste, and use it to generate enough electrical energy to warmth and light equivalent to nearly eight thousand houses.

Each Cyclamax facility will be market led and use only technologies and waste processes relevant to that market. These technologies will uniquely allow waste facility manages and producers to conform to legislation and local environmental needs.

Facilities will be sized according to local marketplace demands and their scale will be decided by the locality principle. Common to all developments will be an advanced conversion technology, like gasification that underpins Cyclamax's ladnfill avoidance philosophy.

Gasification is preferred as a combustion technology for waste management, for reduced emissions from burning in smaller scale waste treatment plants. Procees gas can in principle be used off-site, but this depends on the design of the gasification plant has not been implemented so far in the UK, as far as the author is aware.

by Steve Evans - April 2011

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Source: http://www.sita.co.uk/your-environment/our-plans/binn-farm/?searchterm=gasification