The equipment company Metso, based in Finland, has announced that it is supplying automation technology for a greenfield waste-to-energy (WTE) plant currently being built by Korea-based Posco Engineering & Construction in Krakow, Poland.
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A 3D illustration of the greenfield waste-to-energy plant currently under construction in Krakow, Poland. With Metso's advanced automation solutions, the plant will be able to efficiently control the process of turning waste into green energy, reach high process availability and extract maximum energy value from the waste. |
Metso says that with advanced automation solutions it is providing, the plant will be able to efficiently control the process of turning waste into green energy, reach high process availability and extract maximum energy value from the waste.
When complete, the plant will help the city dispose of waste according to high environmental standards, which are in line with national and European Union legislation. Additionally, the plant will create a new source of electricity and heat. The project is partly funded by the European Union.
The new plant has been designed to process and recover energy from household waste of around 750,000 city residents as well as industrial waste. The facilities will be capable of incinerating about 680 tons of waste per day and about 220,000 tons per year. Power production capacity will amount to about 10.74 megawatts by using the heat from incineration. The plant is expected to go on line in November 2015.
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