Swiss waste to energy (wte) technology specialist Kanadevia Inova (KI) announced on Thursday that it had begun construction of a new energy from waste (EfW) facility in Walsall, UK, for customer Encyclis. When completed, the plant is to be able to process up to 436,000 tonnes of non-recyclable household and commercial waste per year and to generate up to 49 MW of electricity.
Kanadevia Inova (formerly Hitachi Zosen Inova) was selected as principal engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the project in the West Midlands of England last year. The construction phase follows ten months of pre-construction remediation at the site, an eight-acre brownfield site, said the company.
"Since announcing the formal commencement of this project ten months ago, we have been working hard with local partners to prepare the site for construction. We are pleased to be entering this next phase in partnership with Kanadevia Inova," said Encyclis CEO Owen Michaelson. He noted that the company was "advancing plans to harness heat from the facility to be the source of a new district heat network".
The Walsall waste to energy (wte) plant has been designed for the future export of steam to a heat condensing exchanger which has the potential to supply up to 20 MW of heat to a district heating scheme. The single-line facility using Kanadevia Inova’s new highly efficient boiler combustion technology would have an annual guaranteed availability of 98 per cent, said the company.
The plant will be the fourth which the Swiss company has realised for Encyclis, having served as EPC contractor the plant operator for its Dublin wte facility in Ireland and its Rookery South and Newhurst plants in England, some of which were built when Encyclis was still operating as Covanta Europe. Once completed, the new Walsall energy recovery facility (ERF) would be Kanadevia Inova’s twentieth waste to energy plant in the UK, the company said.
