Largest French waste incinerator unveiled in Paris

16 June 2008

• Waste Management

The largest energy from waste plant in France has been unveiled in Western Paris, on the banks of the Seine.

Waste disposal authority SYCTOM, which represents the Western suburbs of Paris and neighbouring towns, has built the facility at Issy-les Moulineaux to treat 460,000 tonnes of residual waste a year, alongside a recycling facility for 50,000 tonnes.

The €580 million (£460m) plant is operated by a consortium called TSI, which is lead by French renewable energy firm TIRU Groupe. Waste firm SITA is the other partner, and takes control of the recycling facility.

The energy from waste plant uses a twin-stream moving grate system manufactured by Swiss firm Von Roll to burn over 30 tonnes of waste an hour.

This produces steam which is fed into a 52MW turbine to generate electricity and is also used to provide district heating for buildings including the Musée D'Orsay.

The plant, called ISSÉANE, came online in December 2007 and was unveiled this month. A spokeswoman for Tiru explained: "ISSÉANE is already an essential contributor to the production of renewable energy in the Paris region. More than 182,000 inhabitants rely on it for their district heating every year."

Acceptance

In order to fit in with its surroundings, two thirds of the ISSÉANE facility is constructed underground - which the company claims has played a "crucial role" in its acceptance by residents.

The facility has also been given a green roof and wooden cladding, and small chimneys - making it stand out from the energy from waste plant it has replaced, which still stands 500 metres away.

All of the communities the facility serves are within a 10km radius of the sites, which helps to limit transportation to the site and therefore its carbon footprint.

The spokeswoman said: "The building itself begins 31 metres (or six storeys) below ground level and all traffic movement associated with waste deliveries takes place underground. The site's twin chimneys protrude no further than 5 metres above the green roofline, minimising visual impact."

Waste

Inside the facility, refuse collection vehicles deliver their waste in one of seven bays, from which it drops into a huge waste hall with an aspiration system to limit odour. Here the waste is picked up by two grabber cranes which load it into two hoppers, which feed the boiler.

Combustion gases from the process are treated by an electrostatic precipitator which recovers more than 99% of the particles contained in them, according to the company. Flue gases are also treated to remove pollutants.

Bottom ash produced in the process is taken away on barges for re-use in aggregates, scrap metal is recycled and fly ash is sent for hazardous waste disposal.

Fee

Bart Fourment, UK liaison for Tiru, estimated that the gate fee for the facility was about €85 a tonne, inclusive of energy sales and residue disposal costs. He explained that Tiru charged €30 a tonne which fell to €17 if energy revenue was taken away, and added: "This is incredibly cheap due to size factors, the sale of the steam and other factors."

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Japan Stanches Stench of Mass Trash Incinerators

By Blaine Harden

Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

TOKYO -- It doesn't smell like a dump.

If it did, there are a quarter-million neighbors to complain about Tokyo's Toshima Incineration Plant, which devours 300 tons of garbage a day, turning it into electricity, hot water and a kind of recyclable sand.

Japan burns more garbage in the heart of its big cities than any developed country. The Toshima plant is one of 21 factory-size incinerators that operate around the clock amid Tokyo's 12 million densely packed residents.

Remarkably, this does not create a big stink, literally or politically.

"There is no smoke or odor coming from the incinerators," said Hideki Kidohshi, a garbage analyst at the Japan Research Institute.

While the United States buries most garbage in landfills, Japan burns about three-quarters of its trash in the world's largest armada of incinerators. All this burning raised dioxin levels in Japan to dangerously high levels in the 1990s, but technological advances have since corrected the problem. "All in all, the dioxin issue has been conquered," Kidohshi said.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/17/AR2008111702968.html

Govt to call international tender for incinerators next year

MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012 - 22:04 Malay mail

by Ikram Ismail

SHAH ALAM: International tenders, open to capable local and foreign contractors, will be called next year to built waste incinerators in the country.

Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Chor Chee Heung said the decision was made following a three-week working lab in March aimed at identifiying the best incineration system to be implemented in the country.

"The tender will be open so we can find participants who can offer us the latest technology," he said after visiting Worldwide Holdings Berhad's Solid Waste Transfer Station at Section 21 today.

Chor said his ministry had visited plants in several countries including Singapore to identify the suitable technology for Malaysia.

"We will consider those who can incorporate green technology and offer a system that will not cause adverse effects on people's health and the environment," Chor said.

"We target the plants to be constructed at high-density areas such as Kuala Lumpur, Johor Baru and others," he said, adding that a proposal by Kuala Lumpur City Hall to built an incinerator at Taman Beringin was still being studied.

The plant is expected to accommodate 800 and 1,000 tonnes of waste daily and estimated to cost between RM500 million to RM800 million.

At present, there are four incinerators in Malaysia, one each in Pulau Langkawi, Pulau Tioman, Pulau Pangkor and Cameron Highlands. The fifth incinerator in Labuan, Sabah is expected to be completed soon.