EASTCROFT INCINERATOR
Picture by Cara
GENERAL
Plant
Name Eastcroft
Incinerator
Authorisation
No. AH0653 Variations: AZ8196,
BJ6755, BF2129, BE1445, AX9109
Address Incinerator Road
Off Caste
Market Road
Nottingham
NG2 3AF
Operator WasteNotts (Reclamation)
Ltd.
Parent
Company is Waste Recycling Group PLC
Nottingham's Eastcroft Incinerator, near Trent
Bridge has three incinerators. The main plant (two streams) is owned by
Waste Recycling Group (WRG). Although the name might suggest otherwise, they do not recycle waste at this site,
other than ferrous metals, which are recovered after they have gone through the
incinerator process.
WRG incinerators burns most of the City's household
waste, this includes recyclable materials. They also incinerate industrial
waste including reject cigarettes, plastics, chemicals, tyres, PVC, animal
tissues etc. On the site there is also a clinical waste incinerator owned
by White Rose, this burns hospital waste including low-level
radioactive waste.
The municipal incinerator currently burns 150,000
tonnes pa. WRG are planning to expand this by a further 100,000
tonnes pa. This will mean that they will be importing more household
and industrial waste into the city to pollute our air, along with the
additional transport required.
PROCESS
The
incinerator comprises of two incinerator streams each capable of burning 11.5
tonnes per hour, 150,000 tonnes per year (250,000 proposed expansion) of
municipal and industrial waste.
Waste
is tipped into two refuse silos, each capable of holding 1250 tonnes (4 days
supply). The waste is transferred by grab crane onto feed chutes (one for each
combustion chamber). Hot gasses are passed through dust hoppers and material
collected here is discharged directly into ash quenching troughs. Gases are
cooled to about 1500C to achieve the correct temperature for acid
gas treatment. Each incinerator stream has its own flue gas treatment system.
Gases are dosed with a mixture of hydrated lime powder, activated carbon powder
and recirculated reagent, in order to reduce acid gases, organic compounds and
mercury. The exhaust gases and reagent particles are then passed through a
fabric filter to reduce the dust burden, before discharged from the 91M high chimneystack.
Fly
ash from the dust filters is collected and discharged to a silo. Some of the
fly ash is used with the recirculated reagent. The silo is emptied into skips
and transferred to a hazardous waste landfill site. Bottom ask from the
furnaces is disposed of in ordinary landfill.
WHERE DOES THE WASTE COME FROM?
The
waste is household waste, including recyclable material from the city and county, which is
blended and burned with industrial waste from the chemical and pharmaceutical
industries.
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HISTORY
The
incinerator was originally built in 1972, following a partnership between
British Coal and the Local Authority who signed a 60-year contract to dispose
of the waste and produce heat and electricity.
In
1996, Waste Recycling Group bought the incinerator. Since then they have
carried out extensive refurbishment works to meet newer emission standards.
This work included the installation of a gas treatment process using lime and
activated carbon.
Heat Recovery
Some
of the heat generated by the burning process is used to heat water into steam.
This steam purchased by EnviroEnergy and sent to the London Road heat station.
EnviroEnergy, owned by the city council is a loss making company, losing over
£5000,000 of council tax payers money in the past 4 years.
Enviroenergy
sell the heat to homes in St. Ann’s to Nottingham Trent
University and businesses in the city, including Victoria Centre and the
new TAX office.
Enviroenergy
brand their product as Nottingham Green Energy, they claim on their website that;
q
The
energy can save us money.
q
It helps
the environment by saving finite supplies of fossil fuels
q
Fossil
fuels are saved and less land is lost to landfill sites.
However, what they don’t tell you on their website is that;
q The company
is losing over millions of pounds of Nottingham council taxpayers
money.
q
If the
waste was recycled, far more fossil fuels would be saved.
Replacing paper, cardboard, glass etc from raw materials uses massive amounts
of energy, far more than recovered from incineration.
q Waste
still has to be sent to landfill, some of which is classified ad toxic waste
once it has been through the incineration process.
q Calling
the energy green blatantly misleading. How can energy from a plant that pollutes
the air and land with global-warming and acid rain gases, toxic heavy metals
and dioxins and PCB’s every be classed as green?
Click Here - Enviroenergy Website
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