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FEASIBILITY STUDIES AND BASIC ENGINEERING PROJECTS FOR THE CONSUTRUCTION OF DIVERSE WASTE TO ENERGY PLANTS USING PLASMA GASIFICATION TECHNOLOGY IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

Client: SOLENA GROUP, GLOBAL PLASMA VALENCIA (GPV), GRUPO INE, SERVICIOS CORPORATIVOS PABAN S.A., GRUPO USVAC, SPV, Hornonitrianske Bane Prievidza, A.S. (HBP), Recyclo Power Ltd., Mirabella SPA, EKOPARK, LKSur

Objectives

Plasma gasification is the only available technology that addresses three of the most important and complex issues existing in the world today, which are; a) the damage to the environment caused by wastes being produced by man and his industrialization, and b) the depletion of fossil fuels, and c) climate change caused by the increasing amounts of methane being released from landfills and carbon dioxide released from the combustion of fossil fuels. The extremely high temperatures reached in the reactor (about 3.000ºC) and the strictly controlled operation conditions make that by means of this technology a pure and high quality syngas with a calorific value high enough to run a combined cycle is obtained. As a consequence, several potential clients have required feasibility studies for the application of plasma gasification technology to their particular needs, as well as the basic engineering projects for going forward in the technical and economic valuation for the construction of a plasma plant for the optimal solution to their problems related to waste management.

Results

In this sense, EKOTEK has realized several feasibility studies and basic engineering projects for worldwide clients. Some of these studies and engineering projects are the following: Monovar (Valencia, Spain), Meruelo (Cantabria, Spain), Cancún (State of Quintana Roo, Mexico), State of Puebla (Mexico), Istanbul (Turkey), Hekimbasy (Turkey), Deeside (Wales, United Kingdom), Prievidza (Slovakia), Caserta (Napoles, Italy), Pruzskow (Poland), Thessaloniki (Greece), Montevideo (Uruguay), etc. Scenarios, type of wastes and capacities of the plants have been varied, from plants to process 50.000 Tn/year of hazardous wastes with high caloric value, to plants of more than 500.000 Tn/year of MSW designed to operate in various parallel lines.