Objective
The main goal of the project is to achieve an efficient and environmentally friendly energy valorization of shredder residues.
Mainly produced from the recycling (shredding and magnetic sorting) of used motor cars ("end of life vehicles") the shredder residues destination in Europe today is the landfill
As a matter of fact, the shredder residues European amount produced is 4000000 tons/year; it is an energy potential of 1400000 tons of oil equivalent (toe) per year.
The demonstration plant we are willing to achieve would be the first industrial realization of a new process associating a boiler-furnace based on the fluidised bed design, the L4F, with a specific treatment of the shredder residues prior to their combustion, the LTRB.
From our point of view, the problems meet during previous attempts of shredder residues energy valorization were mainly due to the use of raw shredder residues as solid fuel. One of the main innovative aspect of our approach is to base the energy valorization on a derived fuel issued from the shredder residues : the SRDF (Shredder Residues Derived Fuel). Indeed, the Galloo Company, facing the difficult problem of landfilling in Belgium, has worked during the last few years for shredder residues deeper sorting of material (ferrous and non-ferrous) and, quite naturally, has come to the production of such an upgraded solid fuel.
The LTRB process developed by Galloo is based on a complex association of magnetic sorting, particle size selection, dense liquids flottation. A 100000 tons/years LTRB plant is now in operation from January 1995 at Galloo-France (Halluin-France)
This SRDF being now available, our demonstration power plant would be located on the largest car manufacturing plant of the North of France : the Renault plant of Douai located 45 km from the Halluin LTRB plant.
The demonstration project totalize 20 MW of input thermal power corresponding to 36000 tons/year of SRDF consumption.
This power plant would use a new furnace-boiler specifically designed for waste energy valorization, based on the bubbling fluidised bed concept : the L4F.
The L4F process has been patented by CGC in 1990 (Europe and USA). It is a fully integrated device joining a bubbing fluidised bed (inverse pyramids, CERCHAR patent) in a membrane walls boiler with flue gas treatment equipments using the sodium bicarbonate as neutralizer.
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