The Scottish Government have asked Caledonian Environment Centre (CEC) as part of its Remade Scotland programme to manage a tendering, evaluation and funding project for a pilot on a heat from waste or EfW (Energy from Waste) plants. This project was suggested by the Zero Waste Think Tank for Scotland.
It is expected that suitable projects will contribute to the flexible development of waste heat use from plants in line with the Governments policy to ensure waste and EfW systems recover energy efficiently.
Specifically the project will look to cover a number of factors or issues including:
· Technical Evaluation
· System optimisation
· Scale-up costs
· Barriers
· Energy recovery – heat capture and transfer efficiency
· Innovation
Following submission of tenders for the funding an award was made in April to Gray Composting Services Ltd. The grant will be used at an existing organics treatment centre in Aberdeenshire to pilot a scheme designed to recover heat from the maturing compost and demonstrate that it can be used as an energy source.
Albion have recently acted as main consultant/advisor to Gray Composting Services Ltd,
The main objectives of the project were to –
- Demonstrate that energy can be extracted and used to replace fossil fuel sources
- Demonstrate that existing heat pump technology could be utilised to extract the energy.
- Provide a basis for scaling up this work and also provide real data to encourage best practice with similar facilities across the UK.
The biodegradable organic waste that was treated at this facility would have been traditionally disposed of at local municipal landfill sites. However this option is no longer available under the ABP regulations and much of this waste was being transferred out with the Region. This facility provides a local processing solution for food, fish and catering business waste, and produces a sellable PAS100 compost product.
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