How does it work?

1. Materials recovery and fuel preparation

• The plant will deal mainly with mixed waste from the west of Scotland which cannot be separated for recycling at source and would otherwise go to landfill
  
  
• In the Fuel Preparation & Materials Recovery Building advanced mechanical recycling technology is used to separate mixed materials that are delivered to the Lifetime Recycling Village
  
  
• This process enables  mainly inorganic  recyclables to be separated and segregated using a variety of machinery including lasers and optical recognition. This specialised technology separates and prepares material for the recycling and energy recovery stages
  
  
• The biomass fraction that remains is prepared  by shredding and mixing to a  consistent and approved  fuel standard suitable for  renewable  energy conversion in the Green Energy Power Station 
  
  
• Exposed waste handling will take place entirely within the enclosure of this building and the fuel will be containerised before leaving for the power station

• Products that can be recycled, such as  glass, metals and plastics, will be further sorted, separated and processed in the Recycling Building.  
  
  
• These products will be supplied locally to the west of Scotland economy
  
  
• The company will undertake research to extend the potential for economic re-use of recyclate materials

• The biomass fuel that has been prepared then enters  the storage area inside  our Green Energy Power Station 
  
  
• Within 4 days, it is  loaded into one of 24 thermal treatment units where it is combusted in an oxygen reduced atmosphere (gasified ) to produce gas  
  
  
• The gas is carefully filtered and piped to burners that heat water  boilers to make steam  
  
  
• The steam in turn  is used to  make  renewable electricity via  24 parallel steam turbines

  
  

Plasma vitirification is a proven technology  across several industrial applications with consent in the UK and installations in Taiwan and Japan 

• In this configuration two plasma process units are the key to a waste recycling operation that leaves no residues that need to be landfilled
   
• The  first unit within the Fuel Preparation & Materials Recovery Building provides a  direct  recycling route for glass, batteries  and complex  inorganic wastes  contained within the separated fraction
  
  
• In a second unit within one of the power stations, the residues from the gasification process  are fully reprocessed into useful industrial compounds or an inert glass for block manufacture