The tallest section of the Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park – a 55-metre high steel stack and a key piece of the site’s Advanced Thermal Treatment plant – is now in place.
The park in Old Wolverton will bring mechanical treatment, AD, and advanced thermal treatment together to treat black sack waste. It is being built and operated by public and regulated services provider Amey on behalf of Milton Keynes council.
The combination of technologies will boost the amount the council can recycle, and reduce the amount landfilled by 95%.
It took a week to install the tallest section – which has a 2.3 metre diameter – and its completion is being described as a milestone in the park’s development. The steel structure was installed in three parts with sections weighing 14 tonnes, 16.5 tonnes and 17 tonnes. Each section was constructed offsite and then craned into place.
Some of the other equipment weighed up to 80 tonnes and measured up to 4.7m wide, requiring specialist crane lifting and planning.
Progress
Councillor Mick Legg cabinet member for Environment and Waste said: “I am very impressed with the good progress being made at the MK Waste Recovery Park and that we’re on schedule to see it open at the end of the summer 2016 when it will begin to make a real difference to the way we process waste here in Milton Keynes.”
Paul Greenwell Amey’s waste treatment managing director said: “This is a significant milestone in our construction programme and the facility is now really beginning to take shape.
“Major pieces of equipment have already been installed and we’re well on track to finishing construction as planned in January 2016. The stack is a key element of our Advanced Thermal Treatment plant. This turns waste into a gas, which in turn is combusted to generate high temperature steam which creates renewable electricity in a turbine.”
Boilers and furnaces at the Advanced Thermal Treatment plant are already in place. And work continues on cladding the buildings, which will house the treatment technologies and a visitor centre.
Mechanical treatment technology is due to be installed this autumn and construction is due to be completed in January next year. Then commissioning and testing will take place before it is fully operational in September 2016.
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