Feedstocks help fuel waste conversion
20 May 2013
Vecoplan LLC has announced the commissioning of an alternative fuel feedstock preparation system for the city of Edmonton, Canada.
The feedstock preparation facility will work in conjunction with an adjacent waste-to-biofuel processing plant.
In an attempt to divert the waste away from landfill sites, and generate a productive use for it, the feedstock preparation system will be capable of producing 100,000 dry tonnes of refuse-derived fuel (RDF) per year.
Vecoplan began construction of the RDF/ waste processing facility, under contract by Edmonton City, in a project that converts otherwise waste materials into a renewable source of fuel from the alternative feedstock supply.
In an effort to minimise carriage, the ‘prepared for fuel conversion’ feedstock is transported via a Vecobelt conveyor to the adjacent facility.
It is then stored in bunkers, which are equipped with Vecoplan’s innovative load-unload system, to be meter fed for conversion into biofuel through a Vecoplan screw conveyor system.
The system incorporates a receiving, pre-shredding, conveying, screening, re-shredding and the separating of ferrous and non-ferrous materials ability.
Vecoplan specialise in systems and equipment to produce alternative fuels from waste to meet a fuel specification, and plants for reception, processing, storage and dosing of alternative fuels to numerous thermal conversion processes.
For more information, please contact Vecoplan on: 0121 222 5492, E-mail: uk-enquiries@vecoplan.co.uk or visit the website at www.vecoplan.co.uk.
