Energy facility
The energy recovery facility will be completely enclosed within an environmentally controlled building. Waste will be delivered to a reception area within the building. Automated conveyors will take it to the two combustion chambers where the heat will be used to produce steam to power the electricity generators.
Newhurst energy recovery facility
The plant will incorporate environmental treatment and air pollution control systems to ensure clean emissions to air. Ash from the combustion process will be recycled as aggregate for the building and construction industry. The separate fly ash will be taken off site for disposal.
- A reception hall for the delivery of waste.
- A boiler hall with two combustion chambers and heat recovery boilers
- A turbine hall with a steam turbine for the generation of electricity
- Flue gas treatment with equipment to clean combustion gasses
- Two flue stacks to discharge the treated flue gasses
- Air cooled condensers for cooling the steam from the generating process
- Covered storage areas for recycling of combustion process ash
- Tanks and infrastructure for the collection and recycling of rainwater
- A visitor’s centre
- Office accommodation for staff
Final details have yet to be agreed but the building will be around 47m high and cover a ground area of approximately 350m by 70m.
Two flue stacks will be positioned to the western side of the building and will be approximately 90m high.
Construction is likely to take three years and the facility will have a design life of at least 25 years. The plant will operate to produce electricity continuously.
Delivery of waste will be over the same hourly period as already approved for the existing planning consent for the landfill and treatment plant – 0600 hours to 2200 hours Monday to Friday and 0730 hours to 1600 hours on Saturday. There will be no waste deliveries on Sundays.
200 –300 workers are expected to be employed during the construction phase with around 40 operational staff employed thereafter on a shift basis.