Teesside
With planning permission now in place Air Products' Tees Valley Renewable Energy Facility will generate 49MW of renewable power. In the longer-term, Air Products' plant has the potential to produce renewable hydrogen and is being considered for a demonstration of W2T's fuel cell technology. This would involve alkaline fuel cells from AFC Energy generating power, alongside more conventional CCGT [combined cycle gas turbines], using hydrogen separated from the syngas stream.
The facility's conversion technology employs Alter NRG's Westinghouse plasma assisted gasification, deployed in a newly designed G65 vessel - making Tees Valley the largest plant built so far using this proven technology. In all, between 300,000 and 350,000 tonnes of municipal and commercial waste will be turned into renewable power every year, diverting that waste from landfill.
Air Products proposed facility will demonstrate the environmental and commercial benefits of treating waste as a feedstock rather than simply as a problem to be inefficiently buried or burned with heat recovery. To find out more about this project please download Air Products' pdf or visit www.airproducts.co.uk/teesvalley
