Australia's EMRC Opens Hazelmere Wood Waste-to-Energy Project Near Perth for Public Review

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources Australia (Perth, Australia)--The Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council (EMRC) (Perth, Australia), is opening its wood waste-to-energy plant for a public environment review. The EMRC, a regional government body that represents six member councils in Perth's eastern suburbs, has picked Ansac Pty Limited (Perth, Australia) as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor to build the plant. Anergy Limited (Cardiff, England) designed the project. The public review is a step toward environmental approval.

The plant would be located at the Hazelmere Resource Recovery Park on Lakes Road in Hazelmere, which is approximately 25 kilometers east of Perth CBD. The park, which has been operating since 2008, offers recycling facilities. There are plans to develop the park into a complete waste management facility.

The proposed 3.5-megawatt (MW) plant would consist of eight 500-kilovolt (kV) Perkins spark ignition gas engines. One of the engines would be kept on standby in case of maintenance activities. Plant developers plan for the facility to burn 13,000 metric tons of wood chips per year from the recycling facility. Using pyrolysis (burning without oxygen), the plant would produce synthetic gas (syngas), which would fuel the gas engines to produce electricity.

It also would produce bio-char as a by-product of pyrolysis. Bio-char could be sold off to farmers for agricultural use, or sent off to the Red Hill Waste Management Facility for use in cell rehabilitation. The pyrolysis kilns will be supplied by Ansac Pty Limited. The plant also may include a 22-kV substation and a few hundred meters of transmission lines, depending on whether the EMRC decides to sign an offtake agreement with a buyer, or to supply the electricity to the grid.

The four-week public comment period will end on June 4. The EMRC hopes to achieve environmental approvals by August, and the construction kick-off is expected by December this year, with completion expected by December 2015.

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