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Energy from Waste

The UK has recognised for a long time that we are putting far too much material to landfill. We are miles behind our European counter parts in terms of waste reduction, re-use, recycling, diversion and incineration.

The UK government has assigned some challenging targets for the reduction of material going to landfill. This is being driven home financially by the landfill tax imposed for every tonne sent to landfill.  This is going to escalate by 2013 and increase the incentive.

At present there are four things that must be in place for a project to proceed from feasibility to operation

• Waste stream secured
• Funding
• Planning
• Recognised technology with full scale plant in operation

The waste market technologies can be simply characterised in terms of several generic types:

1. MRF:     Developed UK supply from a range of small / medium sized companies. Limited support for guarantees, more akin to mechanical plant suppliers.
2. MBT/AD  Referred to as mechanical and bio-logical treatment that can include anaerobic and enhanced AD. .This required mechanical sorting and pre-treatment before it is processed through the AD vessels and separators. The main advantage of this technology is the production of bio-gas and its ability to drive a gas engine and steam boiler to produce power that qualifies for ROC incentives.

Autoclave

This technology relies on the breaking down of the waste stream within the pressurised rotating autoclave by the use of steam, thermal oil or gas as a heat source. It breaks down and separates the organic and non organic material within the vessel and facilities separation of recyclable material and potentially a refuse derived fuel (RDF)can be incinerated or returned to the land

Composting:      Low technology, proven operators, civil cost driven market.
Incineration:      High technology, specialised, proven players, major planning issues.
Gasification:       High technology, high ROCs benefit, mainly unproven, possible planning issues. 
Pyrolysis:           High technology, high ROCs benefit, mainly unproven, possible planning issues. 

Optimisation of your system and its processes

Valveforce has over 30 years of experience in the design, supply and delivery of system solutions. We focus on the market drivers in your business to help you serve your customers better. We have the knowledge to assist you in meeting legislative and economic requirements in respect of

 

 

 

 

Carbon compliance and reduction

There are several new and existing pieces of legislation that are going to impact UK business in terms of reducing their carbon and equivalent carbon emissions. This ranges from energy management systems (EN16001) legislation aimed at the larger energy users in the economy (CRC) and incentive schemes to produce heat and power from renewable sources (ROC’s and GQCHP)

The food industry in the UK has introduced PAS2050 to measure the carbon footprint of a basket of goods from farm to fork. This includes the direct energy consumed in producing the product to the indirect environmental impact on the farm and associated use of the product. Steam can form a large portion of the energy consumption of your business. Adding in the efficient use and recovery of energy from waste water, Valveforce can actively help you manage your business to meet the requirements of the CRC cap and trade scheme.

Offsite Fabrication

Offsite fabrication brings many advantages to the contractor and end client. Packaged systems have seen excellent growth in the marketplace over the last few years because of the following advantages :-

 

 

 

 

Conformity with CDM 2007/ATEX/PED/EN285/HTM/ISO9001

Valveforce has partnered with the best manufacturers to ensure the products and services we offer meet the latest regulatory requirements.
CDM : Anybody who is undertaking a construction or building project should be aware of what is required under the CDM 2007 regulations. The legal requirements are covered by the HSE and those with legal responsibilities are known as duty holders. Please use the following HSE link for further information.

ATEX directive : As of July 2006, organisations in EU must follow the directives to protect employees from explosion risk in areas with an explosive atmosphere.
There are two ATEX directives (one for the manufacturer and one for the user of the equipment):

• the ATEX 95 equipment directive 94/9/EC, Equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres;
• the ATEX 137 workplace directive 99/92/EC, Minimum requirements for improving the safety and health protection of workers potentially at risk from explosive atmospheres.

Employers must classify areas where hazardous explosive atmospheres may occur into zones. The classification given to a particular zone, and its size and location, depends on the likelihood of an explosive atmosphere occurring and its persistence if it does.

Areas classified into zones (0, 1, 2 for gas-vapor-mist and 20, 21, 22 for dust) must be protected from effective sources of ignition. Equipment and protective systems intended to be used in zoned areas must meet the requirements of the directive. Zone 0 and 20 require Category 1 marked equipment, zone 1 and 21 required Category 2 marked equipment and zone 2 and 22 required Category 3 marked equipment. Zone 0 and 20 are the zones with the highest risk of an explosive atmosphere being present.

PED (Pressure Equipment Directive)

Valveforce ensures that all our equipment complies with the PED requirements that are required throughout Europe.

Specific technical support

As detailed steam and process control specialists Valveforce Ltd is able to work closely with its customers and use our experience and expertise to help solve problems in many areas of their plant, we understand that very often that our customers need to fully focus on delivering their core business.
We are more than willing to offer expert advice and partner with our customers on areas such as generate schematics, design steam and process systems, carry out call offs and generate schedules right through to project managing complete installations.