Large Energy and Material Recovery Facility in Warsaw

05 January 2012

Gouda, Netherlands based technical services provider, Imtech has been commissioned by Polish waste company Finalsa S.A. as a technical solutions provider to a 120,000 tpa advanced waste processing plant being built near Warsaw.

According to the company, under the 77 million Euro contract it will supply its processing technology - specifically mechanical and biological process technology solutions - to the facility that is planned to treat over 400 tonnes per day of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and organic waste from residential, commercial and industrial sources.

With the city of Warsaw producing around 800,000 tonnes of MSW each year, Imtech said that the new facility will be capable of treating approximately 15% of the total amount of waste produced by the nearly 2 million residents of the Polish capital.

In addition, Imtech also said that the facility will be able to recover a high level of energy resources in the form of biogas and residual fuels, enabling it to not only completely self-sufficient in energy, but also produce additional energy and residual fuels.

The company said that in order to recover biogas from the organic waste stream entering the plant, the facility will feature anaerobic digestion (AD) technology. The gas produced will be transferred to power generators which will produce double the amount of energy required to power the entire facility.

Additionally, Imtech claimed that by creating a tightly concealed process environment, the risk of odours or pollutants emission is minimised. 

To further secure the emissions level close to zero, the facility will incorporate high-tech air treatment systems for the process exhausts and also for treating air from the technology halls.

The facility is also expected to significantly reduce the amount of waste deposited in Polish landfills to a level that exceeds the EU directive 1999/31/EG requirements for the year 2020.


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