Displaying items by tag: Solid Recovered Fuel
Tarmac installs waste fuel unit at Tunstead plant in the UK
11 October 2019UK: CRH companies Tarmac and Sapphire Energy Recovery have installed a waste-derived fuel processing unit at the Tunstead cement plant in Derbyshire. The unit will produce 'specialised fuel,' a type of solid recovered fuel (SRF) for the cement plant.
"Using waste-derived fuels is well established in the industry but having our own fuel processing plant on site is a first for us. This project from initial concept to actual results, has been a fantastic collaborative experience between Sapphire's commercial, technical, operational and environmental teams, with strong support from the Tarmac kiln and permitting teams,” said David Wilson, Sapphire’s commercial manager. He added that the companies can adjust the blend and amount they use to suit the production process.
LafargeHolcim France and ADEME Occitanie inaugurate waste recovery unit at Port-la-Nouvelle cement plant
11 October 2019France: LafargeHolcim France and ADEME Occitanie, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency for the region, have inaugurated a waste recovery unit at the Port-la-Nouvelle cement plant. The project has an investment of Euro7.5m with support from ADEME. It has included the installation of a drying workshop, a storage and feeding system to the kiln and a chlorine bypass for the kiln. It is intended to help the cement plant use solid recovered fuel (SRF) achieve a co-processing rate of over 90% by 2022.
The cement plant in Occitanie has been using alternative fuels including used tires, animal meal or industrial wood since 1988. Following the installation of a crushed solid waste valorisation workshop in 2011 it achieved a substitution rate of over 60% in 2018.
UK: Andusia has formed a partnership with Mid UK Recycling to export over 20,000t/yr of solid-recovered fuel (SRF) to two unnamed cement plants in the Mediterranean region. Mid UK Recycling is part of Beauparc Group. It incorporates Panda and Greenstar in Ireland and Mid-UK Recycling, WSR, Scotwaste and AWM in the UK. The group produces over 0.5Mt/yr of SRF.
“We have been assisting Mid UK Recycling with their RDF offtake in recent years and are delighted to now be able to take their SRF as an alternative fuel. They are such a like-minded company, passionate about the future of waste management and diverting from UK landfill and we look forward to working with them going forward,” said Stewart Brackenbury, director and founder of Andusia.
Tarmac Dunbar cement plant orders solid recovered fuel system from Saxlund International
10 July 2019UK: Tarmac has ordered a solid recovered fuel (SRF) handling system from Saxlund International to increase the capability to utilise alternative fuels at its Dunbar integrated cement plant. The SRF system will be installed in the second half of 2019. It is designed for the reception of trucks and storage of fuel in two bunkers. The new system includes processing of fuel to remove ferrous and oversize particles before weighing and dosing into a pneumatic conveying system for kiln injection. The Dunbar plant will use SRF supplied by Hamilton - Solid Recovered Fuel.
“We are delighted to be involved in the development of this new SRF facility at the Dunbar Cement works. The overall system for the reception, storage and conveying of SRF fuel will help to ensure a highly resilient and robust solution for our client,” said Mark Neal, sales manager at Saxlund International.
Geminor opens waste management office in Poland
27 June 2019Poland: Norway’s Geminor has opened a new national office in Sopot and appointed Andrzej Zientarski as Country Manager. Kjetil Vikingstad, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Geminor, says that the resource management company’s presence in Poland comes as a response to the ‘booming waste market.’ Although company is focusing on recycled waste wood the territory is also seeing a growing energy recovery sector in Poland, and it has numerous refuse-derived fuel (RDF) and solid recovered fuel (SRF) projects underway.
UK/Ireland: Geminor says it has been engaged in a partnership with MSC transporting refuse-derived fuel (RDF) and solid-recovered fuel (SRF) from the UK and Ireland since February 2019. The first shipments were transported from Barking and Nottingham, UK to Aalborg, Denmark. This will be followed up by container shipments from Birmingham, UK to Habberstad, Sweden and Dublin, Ireland to Greece. The shipments are based on so-called ‘backload,’ where empty containers are used to reduce the price.
“Moving waste from the UK to Scandinavia can also be completed with trailers, but we will continue to use containers where this is the best option. Currently we are moving containers with RDF and SRF from Dublin to Greece and Spain, where container shipment is a more efficient way of transport,” said Oliver Caunce, Senior Account Manager at Geminor UK.
UK: Andusia has signed a solid recovered fuel supply (SRF) supply contract with Powerday, a recycling and waste management company based in London. Powerday can process up to 1.6Mt/yr of construction, demolition, municipal, commercial and industrial waste.
Powerday completed a Euro2.25m upgrade to its materials recovery facility (MRF) in west London in mid-2018. Andusia and Powerday have formed a partnership in order to export 10,000t/yr of SRF to be recovered at a cement plant in the Mediterranean. This is one of Powerday’s first SRF trades since completing its MRF facility upgrade.
US: BioHiTech Global started operations at a waste treatment plant in Martinsburg, West Virginia in March 2019. It has completed the first phase of plant commissioning including the facility's reception area, overhead bridge cranes, and its primary mechanical sorting equipment. It has begun the next phase of plant commissioning and progressing operations, which includes receiving limited amounts of waste and beginning runs of its mechanical and biological treatment process for producing solid recovered fuel (SRF). The limited processing runs are expected to result in the production of SRF in the coming weeks with the facility reaching full operations in the second quarter of 2019. The unit uses Entsorga Italia’s proprietary high efficiency mechanical and biological treatment process (HEBIOT)
The majority of the waste, to be delivered as feedstock to the facility, is covered under a ten year agreement with a local waste hauler owned by Gold Medal Group, a regional waste management services company. The SRF will be supplied to cement producer Argos USA under a similar ten-year deal.
"The initiation of revenue generating operations at this first facility of its kind in the US is a pivotal moment for our company and an important step forward in the movement to lessen the environmental impact of waste management,” said Frank E Celli, the chief executive officer (CEO) of BioHiTech Global.
BioHiTech is the largest owner of the Martinsburg SRF plant through a majority owned subsidiary company with a 78% controlling interest in its operations. Gold Medal Group owns the remaining minority stake in the subsidiary.
UK: Hanson’s Ribblesdale cement plant plans to upgrade its automatic feed system to increase its usage of solid recovered fuel (SRF). It is part of a three-phase fuel strategy to reduce the amount of coal the unit uses. The subsidiary of Germany’s HeidelbergCement has been using SRF since 2011.
“Successful trials have also been carried out to burn waste paper residues from motor oil filters in the kilns and use of this as an additional alternative fuel will start in 2020,” said Simon Moorhouse, Hanson Cement’s operations manager.
Andusia exports solid recovered fuel to European cement producer
12 November 2018UK: Andusia has exported its first consignment of solid recovered fuel (SRF) to an unnamed cement producer operating a Mediterranean plant. The deal is the company’s first SRF contract.
“As Andusia diversifies into other forms of recovered fuels exported to Europe and also within the UK, we hope this further demonstrates how knowledgeable and diverse our business and the Andusia team is,” said Mark Terrell, director at Andusia.