Displaying items by tag: Refuse Derived Fuel
PPC to boost alternative fuels plans in South Africa
19 December 2017South Africa: PPC plans to expand its alternative fuel programme as part of a cost saving drive. The producer plans to start using refuse derived fuel (RDF) at its De Hoek cement plant in the Western Cape, according to the Pretoria News newspaper. This will follow the current use of tyres as a fuel at the unit. RDF will be sourced from Cape Town, Drakenstein and Swartland. Savings are expected to be realised from the change in fuel mix by mid-2019.
PPC added that it didn’t expect any disruption to its supply of waste tyres at De Hoek caused from the shutdown of the government’s Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa (REDISA). Chief executive officer (CEO) Johan Claassen said that the company had anticipated the closure and built up supplies of tyres at the plant and at a site at Vissershok.
Andusia moves into the solid recovered fuel market
09 November 2017UK: Andusia Recovered Fuels says it is moving into the solid recovered fuel (SRF) market following its experience of the refuse derived fuel (RDF) business over the last five years. In this time the waste management company has exported over 0.9Mt of RDF.
“Despite recent claims that the RDF market is beginning to plateau, here at Andusia we are yet to notice that,” said General Manager, Mark Terrell. “The RDF export market will always be a key area for us, however we are now turning our attentions to not only the emerging UK Energy from Waste market but also to SRF exports across Europe.”
Wonder Cement signs waste agreement with Pratapgarh council
18 September 2017India: Wonder Cement has signed a memorandum of understanding with the municipal council of Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh. The agreement will see the council arrange refuse collection, separation and transportation to the cement company’s plant at Nimbahera, according to the Press Trust of India. The council is already processing wet waste to make organic fertiliser.
A Tec launches mobile version of Rocket Mill
15 September 2017Austria: A Tec has launched a mobile version of its grinding mill. The semi mobile A Tec Rocket Mill 2.00 single is a compact version installed in a container. The mill consists of one grinding chamber with approximately a 2m diameter and 315kW installed power at the main drive. This will give roughly the half capacity of the double chamber Rocket Mill 2.50. The throughput when producing refuse derived fuel (RDF) for the main burner (90% < 50mm) is about 10 - 12t/hr.
Telangana state governments orders cement plants to use refuse derived fuel where available
13 July 2017India: The Telangana state government has issued a government order (GO) requesting cement and power plants to buy and use refuse-derived fuel (RDF) when RDF is within 100km of a plant. Local government and RDF plants have been made responsible to pay for the transport costs to transport RDF to plants outside of the 100km zone. The GO has also prohibited the open burning of waste materials on open land and at landfill sites. The government said that the legislation follows a National Green Tribunal order issued in December 2016
US: St Marys Cement’s Charlevoix plant has remained open following a fire that destroyed its alternative fuels storage facility on 7 June 2017. No one was injured in the incident and work on the plant’s expansion project is continuing, according to the Charlevoix Courier newspaper. The warehouse containing refuse-derived fuels (RDF) caught fire on the evening on the day and was swiftly extinguished by fire services. The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has been alerted about the incident.
Brazil: Lindner Recyclingtech is promoting its Urraco 75 moblie shredder for use with refuse derived fuel (RDF) in Brazil and other South American markets. Following the introduction of a landfilling ban in 2015 is hoping to benefit from clients using its products to shred materials such as eucalyptus bark in addition to conventional sources such as municipal waste. The Austrian engineering company uses Siebert & Cia, which operates from Curitiba in Paraná, as its sales partner in the country.
Germany: Thomas Strobl, the Deputy Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg, has opened Alba Nordbaden’s refuse-derived fuel (RDF) plant in Karlsruhe. The plant has an RDF production capacity of 33,000t/yr for use at power and cement plants. The unit uses a Lindner Polaris 2800 shredder that can shred materials to 80mm or less in a single step, according to Construction Cayola. Alba Nordbaden specified a crusher that could handle an input rate of 20t/hr.
Hiriya Recycling Park opens US$111m refuse-derived fuel
27 March 2017Israel: The Hiriya Recycling Park near Tel Aviv has launched a refuse-derived fuel (RDF). The new plant cost US$111m and it will produce about 500t/day of RDF, according to the Jerusalem Post. Partners on the project include the Hiriya Recycling Park, the Dan Municipal Sanitation Association, Nesher Israel Cement Enterprises and the Veridis environmental service corporation. RDF from the plant will be use to substitute about 20% of the Nesher cement plant’s fuel.
India: The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has arranged a deal with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palik (BBMP), an administrative city council body, to remove excess refuse derived fuel (RDF) in Bangalore. The agreement has arranged to transport 1.3Mt of RDF that has accumulated at six recycling plants in the city for a cost of just under US$0.5m, according to the Hindu newspaper.
High transport costs to move the PDF to cement plants in the north of Karnataka despite giving the RDF to the plants for free have been blamed for the excess of RDF in Bangalore in the south of the state. As an interim measure BBMP officials have asked cement plants to use Corporate Social Responsibility funds to cover the costs of transporting the RDF while it arranges policy on the matter. The government body may seek to ask the state government to subsidise transport costs for the RDF.