Wood waste gasification plant to generate 10 MW in UK

Birmingham Bio-Power has awarded a £47.8 million contract for the design, build and maintenance of a new 10.3 MW biomass gasification facility in Tyseley, Birmingham. Site preparation work will begin immediately with completion scheduled for early 2016. The plant will be supplied with approximately 67,000 tonnes of class A-C recovered wood waste secured under a long-term sustainable contract with a local supplier. Over its 20 year lifespan, the facility is expected to reduce greenhouse emissions by an estimated 2.1 million tonnes and save 1.3 million tonnes of waste wood, otherwise destined for landfill. Power will be generated through the gasification of the waste wood, which is then combusted to create steam to drive a turbine unit generating electricity that will be exported to the national grid. The gasification technology is provided by Nexterra Systems from Canada and will include four gasifiers, a high pressure boiler and a flue gas treatment system. The provided system qualifies as an Advanced Conversion Technology (ACT) under UK legislation, meaning that the power generated by the project will receive the highest band of Renewables Obligation Certificates (ROCs). The investment consortium financing the power plant compromises of the Green Investment Bank, Gravis Capital Partners, Balfour Beatty plc, Eternity Capital Management and Foresight Group’s UK Waste Resources and Energy Investments (UKWREI) fund. Delivered under as an Engineer, Procure, Construct (EPC) project, MWH Treatment will undertake its construction and commissioning before taking on an operational role running the plant under a five year Operations and Maintenance contract. ### Read more Nexterra waste gasification system comes on-line in BC Vancouver based renewable waste gasification specialist, Nexterra Systems has completed a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) project with the University of British Columbia (UBC) and GE (NYSE: GE) at UBC's Vancouver campus - and has also signalled a move into the expanding UK market… 150,000 TPA wood waste recycling plant planned for Yorkshire Proposals to develop a 150,000 tonne per year, 50 acre wood waste recycling centre, which would be the UK's largest and would help supply and E.On renewable energy facility, have been made by Lancashire based wood waste recycling specialist, Plevin… Wood waste comes good George Willacy, John Reilly and Giles Perryman examine the benefits of the modular and flexible Refgas advanced gasification system for converting biological waste – in particular wood waste – into energy…