Runcorn EfW
One of the largest ERF facilities in the UK, Runcorn EfW has a permitted capacity of 1,100,000 tonnes per year and is operated by Viridor.
Delivery of waste is by both road and rail and the facility processes both residual Household Waste and Commercial Waste in the form of RDF[1] and in April 2021 it applied to received unprocessed residual MSW waste.
Site Details
Plant Description
Built by Keppel Seghers under a Design & Build EPC-turnkey contract.
Phase 1 commenced in 2009 and was handed over in January 2015, and phase 2 commenced in 2010 and handed over in April 2015 at a contract value of GBP £390 million [2].
The plant comprises 4 lines (2 in each phase) of standard combustion technology comprising Keppel Segher's proprietary water-cooled grates, generating super-heated steam, and is configured to run on RDF with a 'design point' CV of 11.5MJ/kg.
History
The Runcorn facility was built in two phases with 425,000 tonnes per annum capacity in each phase.
The initial capacity focused on the solution delivered as part of the PFI for GMWDA (Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority, now Greater Manchester Combined Authority) and was then subsequently extended to deliver a capacity of 1,100,000 tonnes per annum to reflect the lower Calorific Value of the fuel delivered than was anticipated in the design for 850,000 tonnes per annum.
The facility is a CHP plant, located on Ineous Chlor's site in Runcorn, generating 83MWe of electricity (design point vs 100MWe listed capacity) and 51MWth of heat for the adjacent chemical manufacturing site
