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Irish Cement wins planning permission for Limerick plant
Written by Global CemFuels staff
16 April 2018
Ireland: Irish Cement has been granted planning permission by An Bord Pleanala for its plans to burn tyres and tyres and solid recovered waste at its Limerick plant. Local councils originally approved the project in 2017 but this was appealed to the national An Bord Pleanala following local protests. Environmental groups say they will continue to fight the plan.
Minister opens new production line at Arabian Cement Company plant
Written by Global CemFuels staff
11 April 2018
Egypt: Khaled Fahmy, the Minister of Environment, has opened a new production line at Arabian Cement Company’s Ain Sokhna plant in Suez. The line uses FLSmidth’s Hotdisc combustion device to allow it to use high levels of alternative fuels, according to the Watani newspaper. The opening was attended by Muhammad Shehab Abdel-Wahab, chief executive of the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, Nahed Youssef, head of waste management organisation, as well as a number of representatives of the financiers, and director of the European Investment Bank.
In 2015 Arabian Cement Company commissioned another Hotdisc installation. At the time is said it had a designed fuel mix of 70% coal and 30% alternative fuels, using a mixture of agricultural wastes, municipal sludge, and refuse-derived fuel (RDF).
Bulk Handling Systems launches new products for recycling plants
Written by Global CemFuels staff
06 April 2018
US: Bulk Handlings Systems (BHS) and its subsidiary National Recovery Technologies (NRT) has launched two new products targeted at Material Recovery Facility (MRF) operators for identifying waste products and tracking the entire recycling process. The Max-AI Visual Identification System (VIS) provides real time material identification in recycling plants. The Total Intelligence Platform provides information to track the entire recycling process.
Max-AI VIS helps operators monitor material composition in the sorting process. The system uses multi-layered neural networks and a vision system to see and identify objects. It can be used to verify the quality of end products, or to monitor the quantity of recyclables in a MRF’s residue as it leaves a system. An operator can compare composition for a specified time period against key performance indicators.
The Total Intelligence Platform monitors and tracks throughput, uptime, downtime events, material composition, motor amperage, and performance data from optical sorters and Max-AI-powered equipment.
“While perhaps not as sexy as robotic sorting, the idea that we can now see and track input composition, residue composition and product quality automatically is something that our customers are really excited about,” said BHS chief executive officer Steve Miller.
Geocycle processes 10Mt of waste in 2017
Written by Global CemFuels staff
27 March 2018
Switzerland: LafargeHolcim’s global waste management business, Geocycle, treated 10Mt of waste in 2017, an increase of 13% year-on-year from 2016. It co-processed all types of waste in cement kilns including solid shredded waste from industrial and municipal origin, spent solvents, used tires, waste oils, contaminated soils, industrial and sewage sludges, as well as demolition waste.
“At LafargeHolcim we offer solutions which facilitate the simultaneous recycling and recovery of waste. We have ambitious plans to continue investing in all parts of the world in order to bring the most advanced technology and solutions to our partners and play a role in solving the global waste problem,” said Jan Jenisch, the chief executive officer of LafargeHolcim.
In Europe and North America, the main growth area for LafargeHolcim’s global waste management business was industrial waste, while in Africa more biomass waste such as rice and coffee husks were treated. The strongest growth rates for municipal solid waste (MSW) were seen in Asia and Latin America, where waste infrastructures are still developing and municipalities continue to seek more sustainable solutions for the growing volume of household waste.
In 2017 LafargeHolcim built three new major waste treatment facilities: Kujawy in Poland, El Sokhna in Egypt and Oum Azza in Morocco. It said that Oum Azza is the first waste pre-processing platform for MSW in the Middle East and Africa.
Danish government supports refuse-derived fuel plant in Indonesia
Written by Global CemFuels staff
26 March 2018
Indonesia: The Danish government has invested US$3.63m to support a refuse-derived fuel (RDF) plant project in the Cilacap regency of Central Java. Ahead of construction delegates from the Danish Embassy in Jakarta, the Cilacap Environment Agency, Holcim Indonesia and other non-government agencies visited the proposed site, according to the Jakarta Post newspaper. The US$5.6m plant started construction in mid-2017 and is expected to start operation by October 2018. Holcim Indonesia will use RDF from the plant at its cement plant at Cilacap to substitute 5% of its daily coal use.