Taim Weser kit for Valencia waste processing plant
3 May 2011
Zaragoza, Spain – Spanish group Taim Weser is to supply the equipment required for the modernisation of the Los Hornillos waste processing plant in Quart de Poblet, Valencia, a facility that has received and processed urban waste (UW) from the districts of the Valencia metropolitan area since 1968.
After 40 years in operation, the plant is being completely renovated in order to adapt the UW management to current technological and environmental requirements. To do this, three new facilities have been planned, which will be equipped with the most advanced waste processing and elimination systems.
TW will supply a facility to process the organic fraction sorted out from the UW collected in order to obtain compost, with a processing capacity of 62,000 tons per year. This facility will be formed by a biostabilisation system in a covered bay with automatic turning machine (bucket wheel), while the following composting phase, will be done in a covered bay with forced air collection.
These systems will be installed in the new Los Hornillos waste processing and composting plant, called Facility 1.
This plant, in operation since August 2009, has 120,000 m2 floor area and a waste processing capacity of 400ktpa. It has four processing and classification lines and will manage waste of the random, selective organic, food, pruning and gardening and type I and II hospital types.
The project’s promoter is Entidad Metropolitana de Tratamiento de Residuos “EMTRE” (waste processing company) and the contractor UTE Los Hornillos – a joint ventureformed by Valoriza Servicios Medioambientales SA, CYES SA and Corporacion F.Turia.
The new composting plant via turning machine is scheduled to start its tests in late 2011. The facility to be supplied by TW consists of an organic fraction of urban waste plant by means of stabilisation of this fraction in trapezium-shaped piles in enclosed and covered fermentation bays.
This stabilisation process is carried out in a bay of approx. 135x36 m2 with forced air collection, with a feeding system and a turning machine. This turning machine stabilisation system works in a fully automatic mode, inside an enclosed bay, without any personnel requirement, throughout the 6 weeks of the process.
The air collected inside the bay is sent to the biofilters area for treatment, thereby avoiding the emission of noxious air and bad smells to the atmosphere.
The new processing area for the organic fraction of UW is currently under construction, including an automatic loading system inside the bay, an automatic bucket wheel turning machine, the discharge system and the aeration system.
TW’s scope of the supply also includes the electrical control system with PLC, the assembly and supervision, the start-up and the personnel training.
