I know very little about WTE technologies,
so please forgive the following question: What in particular is obsolete about
this technology?
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Subject: [GreenYes] OBSOLETE
waste-to-energy project which will produce 50MWof electricity
Malaysia to put $130m into power plant
* Plant to use solid
waste to generate electricity
By Jamil Khan
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C01%5C14%5Cstory_14-1-2008_pg12_1
KARACHI: The
City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has inked an agreement with a Malaysian
firm that will invest $130 million for the installation of a waste-to-energy
project which will produce 50MW of electricity.
A Letter of Intent (LoI) for the project was signed Sunday night at a local
hotel by EDO Municipal Services Masood Alam and Managing Director Abaseen
International (Pvt) Limited Omer Malik in a ceremony that was attended by City
Nazim Mustafa Kamal, DCO Karachi Javed Hanif, EDOs and other officials.
This will be the first plant in Karachi
that would use the plasma gasification technology, which is being used in the
energy sector worldwide to generate electricity from municipal waste. We will
facilitate the Malaysian firm in allocation of land and provision of unsorted
municipal solid waste for the plant, and the rest would be their
responsibility, Kamal said. He said that they had been working on the project
for the last 18 months and it will help mitigate the ongoing power crisis and
maintain the citys cleanliness as the CDGK would obtain a share from the Carbon
Crediting.
Omer Malik told Daily Times that the plant will be installed on 25 acres of
land in Korangi and the agreement to finalize the project will be signed within
the next 30 days. Plasma gasification has been used in Malaysia and Karachi will be the second location where
electricity will be produced from municipal waste. He mentioned that the
project is based on a Build-Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis for a concession
period of 25 years and that they will get 15 percent of the profit from energy
sale while the rest would go to the KESC.
Responding to a question, he said that the project was environment friendly as
the municipal waste will be utilized to produce electricity and its residue
could be used as slabs for flooring.
THIS
VERSION OF THE TECHNOLOGY IS A RELIC AND IS OBSOLETE AND INEFFICIENT
BEFORE IT LEAVES THE DRAWING BOARD