ENERGY FROM WASTE
Gasification set to light up east London
Digging it: Boris Johnson gives an official launch to work on the £80M advanced gasification plant
Building work has begun on an £80M gasification plant that will process solid recoverable fuel from MBT facilities to provide a closed loop renewables solution
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, climbed into a JCB digger to officially kick off work on the £80M facility, which has received funding to the tune of £8.9M from the London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB). The plant will be owned by Biossence East London, and will be built on a site bought from Ford Motor Company.
C Ford’s Dagenham plant located close by will also ben-
efit from the energy generated by the facility – the use of renewable energy plays an important role in the running of Ford’s factory, which has two existing wind turbines with a planned third on the way. The majority of the energy how- ever will be exported to the National Grid.
Fuelled for supply
The plant is expected to create 25 permanent skilled jobs once operational in 2013 as well as up to 100 construction jobs during the building works. It will process solid recover- able fuel (SRF) under a long-term fuel supply contract from the nearby Frog Island and Jenkins Lane MBT plants oper- ated by Shanks East London.
Shanks operate these facilities under the 25-year PFI contract with the East London Waste Authority. The SRF is residual household waste left after recycling, and the gasi- fication process will break this down through thermal and chemical processes to create a synthetic gas fuel which is then used to generate electricity.
The gasification plant will take household waste from the four local boroughs that form the East London Waste Authority – Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Newham and
onstruction has started on one of the UK’s first large scale advanced gasification plants in Dagenham, east London, which will con- vert almost 100,000 tonnes of waste into 19MW of energy each year.
Redbridge. “This will be a fantastic facility taking our every- day rubbish and miraculously transforming it into a valuable resource – electricity,” said Mayor Johnson at the launch. James Cleverly, chair of LWARB, added:“The Biossence plant demonstrates how waste can be used as a resource and it will make a valuable contribution to sustainable waste management in the capital. Not only will it help divert waste from landfill, cut carbon emissions and generate renewable energy, it will also create skilled jobs.”
The gasification plant will take household waste from the four local boroughs that form the East London Waste Authority
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Biossence currently holds a UK and Irelance licence for the technology that will be employed at the plant, developed by Canadian firm Enerkem. Enerkem is a waste-to-biofuels company whose process is well developed and operational at commercial demonstration scale. One of the benefits of this technology is its flexibility to operate on a number of differ- ent waste feed stocks and generate either power and heat, or liquid fuels such as methanol and ethanol. Stefan Doeblin, director of Biossence East London, com- mented: “We are encouraged to progress the development of this exciting advanced gasification facility given the support of London Waste & Recycling Board, Shanks and Ford. This, together with subsequent projects that we are seeking to develop, would make a significant contribution towards the UK’s renewable energy targets.”
www.biossence.com April 2011 Local Authority Waste & Recycling 27
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