Runcorn EfW
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| Operational Capacity | Error: no local variable "cap" has been set.ktpa |
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| When was R1 Granted? | Error: no local variable "r1date" has been set. |
| What was the R1 value | Error: no local variable "r1value" has been set. |
| Electrical Capacity | Error: no local variable "mwe" has been set.MWe |
| Number of Lines | Error: no local variable "line" has been set. |
| Number of Turbines | Error: no local variable "turbine" has been set. |
| CHP | Error: no local variable "chp" has been set. |
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Operators Annual Report
Input Data
| Year | HH | C&I | Clin | RDF | Total |
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Output Data
| Year | IBA | IBA %ge of Tot IN | APC | APC %ge of Tot IN |
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Summary
One of the largest ERF facilities in the UK with permitted operational capacity of 1,100,000 tonnes per annum, operated by Viridor and owned by Viridor and Ineous Chlor. Delivery of waste is by both road and rail and the facility processes both residual Household Waste and Commercial Waste in the form of RDF[1]
History
The Runcorn facility was built in two phases with 425,000 tonnes per annum capacity in each phase. The initial capacity focused on the solution delivered as part of the PFI for GMWDA (Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority, now Greater Manchester Combined Authority) and was then subsequently extended to deliver a capacity of 1,100,000 tonnes per annum to reflect the lower Calorific Value of the fuel delivered than was anticipated in the design for 850,000 tonnes per annum. The facility is a CHP plant, located on Ineous Chlor's site in Runcorn, generating 83MWe of electricity (design point vs 100MWe listed capacity) and 51MWth of heat for the adjacent chemical manufacturing site
Plant
Built by Keppel Seghers under a Design & Build EPC-turnkey contract. Phase 1 commenced in 2009 and was handed over in January 2015, and phase 2 commenced in 2010 and handed over in April 2015 at a contract value of GBP £390 million [2]. The plant comprises 4 lines (2 in each phase) of standard combustion technology comprising Keppel Segher's proprietary water-cooled grates, generating super-heated steam, and is configured to run on RDF with a 'design point' CV of 11.5MJ/kg
Local Authority Users
The following data comes from WasteDataFlow for the financial year 2018/19 and represents those local authorities recorded as putting tonnage into the site (either directly or via a transfer station). The tonnage received cannot be directly compared with the stated historical tonnage received and recorded in the EA statistics as these are recorded on a calendar year basis (i.e. January 2018 to December 2018). A 'zero return' below indicates no local authority tonnage was recorded, most likely a result of the plant being recently commissioned and actually having received no tonnage. Equally, lower than expected tonnage maybe a result of either a new plant being in 'ramp up' towards full capacity after construction, or may be a result of plant shut down and subsequent re-start in a year.
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