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£40m gasification plant to help lime producer cut fossil fuel use
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An impression of the 5.75MW Energos gasification facility planned for Singleton Birch's Lincolnshire lime works
Lime producer Singleton Birch is bidding to cut its dependency on fossil fuels through a new £40 million energy-from-waste plant at its site in Lincolnshire.
The company that makes lime products for the steel, chemicals and construction industries at the chalk quarry in Melton Ross, has appointed Manchester-based firm Energos to build the new facility.
It will use gasification technology to turn about 80,000 tonnes a year of locally-collected domestic, commercial or industrial waste and biofuels into electricity and heat.
Planning permission was awarded back in November for the project, which will see 5.75MW of electricity generated at the 2.3 hectare plot within the lime production site itself.
Singleton Birch, which is majority owned by a charitable trust, is expecting the plant to "dramatically" cut its use of fossil fuels, while excess electricity will be exported to the National Grid.
The company is working with the Carbon Trust on the possibility of finding a use for heat generated by the plant, with some interest already being expressed by nearby Humberside International Airport.
Martin Haworth, technical director of Singleton Birch, said: "We are delighted to get the go ahead for this pioneering scheme which tackles two of the key environmental challenges of waste disposal and carbon reduction.
"We will lower our carbon footprint by powering our plant from recycled electricity, but we also hope to use the heat that is normally wasted in electricity generation .The government's Carbon Trust has been helping us to explore the feasibility of recycling the heat," said Mr Haworth.
Gasification
Gasification involves solid organic material being heated in limited amounts of oxygen to produce a hydrogen-rich gas, which can be burned to generate steam that drives a turbine to produce electricity.
Ash from the process is to be used as a secondary aggregate or in road construction at the Singleton Birch landfill.
From April, the advanced thermal conversion process is expected to attract double subsidies from the government under the Renewables Obligation scheme.
Energos, part of Salford-based firm Ener-G, already operates a gasification plant on the Isle of Wight, and is aiming to build further plants in Derby and Liverpool.
Energos managing director Nick Dawber said: "Energos offers a proven and world class, low-emission gasification technology that will make a key contribution to the government's landfill diversion targets. We believe that our strategy of providing community sized energy from waste solutions that complement local recycling initiatives is the way forward."
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An impression of the 5.75MW Energos gasification facility planned for Singleton Birch's Lincolnshire lime works
Lime producer Singleton Birch is bidding to cut its dependency on fossil fuels through a new £40 million energy-from-waste plant at its site in Lincolnshire.
The company that makes lime products for the steel, chemicals and construction industries at the chalk quarry in Melton Ross, has appointed Manchester-based firm Energos to build the new facility.
It will use gasification technology to turn about 80,000 tonnes a year of locally-collected domestic, commercial or industrial waste and biofuels into electricity and heat.
Planning permission was awarded back in November for the project, which will see 5.75MW of electricity generated at the 2.3 hectare plot within the lime production site itself.
Singleton Birch, which is majority owned by a charitable trust, is expecting the plant to "dramatically" cut its use of fossil fuels, while excess electricity will be exported to the National Grid.
The company is working with the Carbon Trust on the possibility of finding a use for heat generated by the plant, with some interest already being expressed by nearby Humberside International Airport.
Martin Haworth, technical director of Singleton Birch, said: "We are delighted to get the go ahead for this pioneering scheme which tackles two of the key environmental challenges of waste disposal and carbon reduction.
"We will lower our carbon footprint by powering our plant from recycled electricity, but we also hope to use the heat that is normally wasted in electricity generation .The government's Carbon Trust has been helping us to explore the feasibility of recycling the heat," said Mr Haworth.
Gasification
Gasification involves solid organic material being heated in limited amounts of oxygen to produce a hydrogen-rich gas, which can be burned to generate steam that drives a turbine to produce electricity.
Ash from the process is to be used as a secondary aggregate or in road construction at the Singleton Birch landfill.
From April, the advanced thermal conversion process is expected to attract double subsidies from the government under the Renewables Obligation scheme.
Energos, part of Salford-based firm Ener-G, already operates a gasification plant on the Isle of Wight, and is aiming to build further plants in Derby and Liverpool.
Energos managing director Nick Dawber said: "Energos offers a proven and world class, low-emission gasification technology that will make a key contribution to the government's landfill diversion targets. We believe that our strategy of providing community sized energy from waste solutions that complement local recycling initiatives is the way forward."
Source; newenergyfocus.com
Not much realy but found it of local interest to the airport.