Singapore group to build Manchester waste-to-energy plant

London- Keppel Seghers, the environmental technology division of Keppel Integrated Engineering Limited (KIE), has secured a £233-million EPC contract to build an energy-from-waste CHP (combined heat and power) plant for the Greater Manchester region.

Keppel Seghers will provide the technology and also build the plant for Ineos Runcorn TPS Ltd – a joint venture between Ineos Chlor, Viridor Waste Management Ltd and John Laing PLC, which was set up for the procurement, operation and maintenance of the plant. The contract, will be one of the largest waste and renewable energy projects in the UK, is part of a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) waste management project by the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority (GMWDA).

With a capacity to treat up to 420ktpa of solid recovered fuel derived from household waste it will be able to supply at full capacity some 270,000 MWh of electricity and 500ktpa of steam into the internal network of the Ineos Runcorn site. Around 275,000 tonnes of waste will be delivered by GMWDA and the remaining will be delivered by Viridor. ?

The horizontal boiler design for the CHP plant will be one of the larger EFW facilities in the UK when completed in 2012, according to KIE, part of Keppel Corp Ltd of Singapore. The unit will employ Keppel Seghers’ water-cooled grate and enhanced heat recovery technologies as well as the company’s double dry flue gas cleaning system.

The CHP plant, said KIE, will contribute significantly towards meeting UK’s targets under the EU Landfill Directive, as GMWDA handles 5% of UK’s municipal waste. The European regulation requires a reduction in municipal solid waste being disposed of to landfill and that municipal solid waste are treated to reduce the biological content prior to landfilling.