How to Efficiently Turn Waste into Energy

What if you could generate power without using fossil fuels? For recycling and waste management companies, this is an everyday reality. Waste-to-energy processes can either produce electricity or heat through combustion or use emerging thermal technologies to efficiently convert the energy into liquid or gaseous fuels.

For this to happen successfully, waste management facilities require high quality and dry compressed air for use in multiple processes, from emission monitoring equipment to filtration bags used in the flue gas treatment stage of the operation. Contaminants in the air supply can affect the instrumentation that is vital to flue gas monitoring and can risk non-compliance with environmental standards.

At a waste management facility in the UK, life cycle costs and energy efficiency were the driving forces behind the compressed air installation. In order to reach the desired efficiency and quality requirements of the operation, the facility chose the following products:

• Two GA 90 oil-injected screw compressors, one fixed speed and one variable speed drive to match output with user demand to optimize energy savings.
• Three vertical air receivers to ensure high quality, dry air at point of use.
• Three BD desiccant dryers with guaranteed dew point of -70 degrees Celsius.
• New innovative filters that substantially reduce pressure drops and oil carryover compared to conventional coalescing or particulate filters.

The combination of these products helps the facility make sure no energy is wasted. The plant can generate steam for use in local public buildings and homes while reducing the amount of waste that would otherwise end up in landfills.

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