Trackwork Waste and Thermal Treatment Facility

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A Biomass Waste EFW facility Trackwork Waste and Thermal Treatment Facility is permitted to incinerate up to 35,000 tonnes per annum of Wood Waste generating 3.0MWe to the grid.


Trackwork Waste and Thermal Treatment Facility
Operational
Site Location
Site Location

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Operator Trackworks Ltd
Capacity 3 MWe
Feedstock Waste Wood
EPR (Waste Licence)
ROC Yes
CfD
CHP Unkwn

Operators Annual Report


Input Data

Year Wood Litter RDF Other Total
2021 17823 0 0 0 17823
2022 0 0 0 0 8732


Output Data

Year IBA IBA %ge of Tot IN APC APC %ge of Tot IN
2021 1282 7.19% 392 2.20%
2022 782 8.96% 268 3.07%

Picture of Trackwork Biomass EFW site, source Google Streetview
Picture of Trackwork Biomass EFW site, source Google Streetview


Summary

A Biomass Waste EFW facility Trackwork Waste and Thermal Treatment Facility is permitted to incinerate up to 35,000 tonnes per annum of Wood Waste generating 3.0MWe to the grid.

The Trackwork site was developed by Trackwork Ltd to process used railway sleepers from the rail network. Due to the hazardous nature of this particular material, the site is permitted as a hazardous waste incinerator. The permit was consolidated with an adjacent transfer station and processing site in November 2010, the consolidated permit allows up to 12,500 tonnes per year on non-hazardous and 42,000 tonnes per year of material to be handled.

Plant

The plant was reported as becoming operational in 2010 and was built at a cost of £8m[1].

Annual Sustainability Tonnage Input/Fuel

The tonnage[2] received by the plant in the most recent Annual Sustainability Report and for the previous 3 years for 2020/21 was reported by Ofgem as below[3]:

Year Waste Wood (m3) Waste Wood (t) Straw Miscanthus Arboricultrual Waste Sawmill Residue Foresrty Residue Round Wood Short Rotation Coppice MBM Other Material
2020/21 0 12160 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2019/20 0 1227 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2018/19 0 1507 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2017/18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Waste Tonnage, By Origin

The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit MP3030BY, that has arrived into sites as reported to the Regulator and then publicised in their reported statistics. The Data was last updated on October 2023. The total reported tonnage arriving at the site was: 4,200.13t. Where this tonnage exceeds that reported in year of the corresponding annual report, this may be due to the following reasons:

  • Tonnage may have been received but not incinerated, i.e. the material is held pending incineration (the operator return to the EA reports as received whereas the annual report focuses on when the waste is incinerated.)
  • Material may have been received into the site but treated in some other way than incineration.
  • Material may have been received on the but transferred out of site for disposal/treatment at another site rather than incineration on the site.
EWC Code Origin of Waste Tonnes In
17 02 04* West Berkshire 29.78
17 02 04* Shropshire 33.82
17 02 04* Worcestershire 25.20
17 02 04* Devon 110.40
17 02 04* Suffolk 52.60
17 02 04* Derry City and Strabane 19.42
17 02 04* Bristol 36.46
17 02 04* West Midlands 48.92
17 02 04* Leicestershire 18.10
17 02 04* Ayrshire and Arran 5.76
17 02 04* Isle of Anglesey 79.16
17 02 04* Greater London 460.27
17 02 04* Wiltshire 57.26
17 02 04* Newcastle upon Tyne 176.68
17 02 04* Lancashire 40.74
17 02 04* North Lanarkshire 23.86
17 02 04* Staffordshire 80.02
17 02 04* East Riding of Yorkshire 1.96
17 02 04* Oxfordshire 52.84
17 02 04* Flintshire 666.59
17 02 04* West Sussex 9.20
17 02 04* Hertfordshire 22.84
17 02 04* Hampshire 4.50
17 02 04* Dorset 25.88
17 02 04* East Sussex 1.22
17 02 04* Carmarthenshire 14.32
17 02 04* Northamptonshire 9.76
17 02 04* Merseyside 22.92
17 02 04* Kent 152.54
17 02 04* Stirling 4.00
17 02 04* Lincolnshire 117.94
17 02 04* Norfolk 40.92
17 02 04* North Yorkshire 335.98
17 02 04* Newcastle-under-Lyme 31.28
17 02 04* Cornwall 40.20
17 02 04* Vale of Glamorgan 73.36
17 02 04* Northumberland 27.72
17 02 04* Falkirk 1.32
17 02 04* Pembrokeshire 12.86
17 02 04* Gloucestershire 38.92
17 02 04* Manchester 15.58
17 02 04* Cambridgeshire 121.86
17 02 04* Herefordshire 13.46
17 02 04* West Yorkshire 140.68
17 02 04* South Yorkshire 57.54
17 02 04* Aberdeenshire 9.76
17 02 04* Powys 5.96
17 02 04* Nottinghamshire 48.40
17 02 04* Gwynedd 155.80
17 02 04* Somerset 75.20
17 02 04* Derbyshire 104.42
17 02 04* County Durham 67.04
17 02 04* Essex 190.85
17 02 04* Antrim and Newtownabbey 10.66
17 02 04* Cumbria 74.10
17 02 04* North Ayrshire 4.32
17 02 04* Blaenau Gwent 21.54
17 02 04* Surrey 57.58
17 02 04* Cheshire 17.86


The plant has expanded to take a wider range of hazardous Wood Waste beyond the originally intended railway sleepers from Network Rail including commercial and industrial sources[4], including the following treated Wood Waste:

  • Creosote wood waste
  • Copper Chromium Arsenic (CCA) wood waste
  • Tanalised wood waste
  • Cooling tower wood waste
  • Demolition wood waste
  • Marine timber waste
  • Utility poles
  • Telegraph poles

References

  1. ↑ https://www.ttjonline.com/news/hazardous-wood-waste-plant-throws-the-switch
  2. ↑ In the case of EfW plants with gasification technology the figures are reported in terms of cubic metres of syngas produced rather than tonnes used
  3. ↑ Biomass Sustainability Dataset 2020-21
  4. ↑ Trackwork Website
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