ABOUT THE WASTE-TO-ENERGY PLANT
Take a closer look at the facility by clicking the image above in our electronic brochure!
The fuel used in the waste-to-energy plant is incinerable waste, which has been sorted at source to remove recyclable and hazardous waste fractions. More than 200,000 kg of unrecyclable, mixed waste arrives at Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto’s waste collection centres every weekday. The plant also utilizes other waste in accordance with its environmental permit.
Salon Kaukolämpö Oy is the Salo region’s district heating company, which sells and distributes the district heating generated at its plant to local households and businesses. In accordance with its environmental permit, the plant is dimensioned to handle a maximum of 135,000 tonnes of waste each year. Each year, the plant produces 180–190 GWh of district heating for locals and approximately 62 GWh of electricity for the national power grid.
The waste-to-energy plant
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1 Waste fuel receiving
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2 Waste bunker
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3 Boiler building
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4 Turbine building
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5 Flue gas treatment plant
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6 Chimney
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7 Control room
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8 Water plant
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9 Visitor centre and office
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10 Intermediate slag storage facility
Waste-to-energy plant in figures
- Site area 3,9 ha
- Chimney height 70 m
- Overall efficiency in district heat production 99 %
- Heat input 46,2 MW
- Plant incineration capacity 360 t/day
- Volume of waste incinerated each year max. 135,000 t
- Incineration temperature 1200 °C
- Waste bunker storage capacity 5 000 - 7 000 m3
- Waste shipments on weekdays approx. 20 truckloads
- Annual operating hours 8 000 - 8 300 h/a
Comparisons
A 2 kg sack of waste can heat a single-family home for approximately 30 minutes and light an 8-watt energy-saver bulb for 158 hours.
The plant can generate enough heat to meet the needs of some 10,000 single-family homes
135,000 tonnes of fossil fuels is equivalent to 56,000 tonnes of coal or 37 million cubic metres of natural gas.
Six 2 kg sacks of waste could power an electric sauna oven for one full sauna session
One million LEDs could be run continuously on the electricity produced by the Waste-to-Energy plant