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09 April 2009 Waste Heat Pilot Project
The Scottish Government have asked Caledonian Environment Centre (CEC) as part of its Remade Scotland programme to manage a tendering, evaluation and funding award project for a pilot on heat from waste or EfW (Energy from Waste) plants. This project was suggested by the Zero Waste Think Tank for Scotland.
The Scottish Government have asked Caledonian Environment Centre (CEC) as part of its Remade Scotland programme to manage a tendering, evaluation and funding project for a pilot on a heat from waste or EfW (Energy from Waste) plants. This project was suggested by the Zero Waste Think Tank for Scotland.
It is expected that suitable projects will contribute to the flexible development of waste heat use from plants in line with the Governments policy to ensure waste and EfW systems recover energy efficiently.
Specifically the project will look to cover a number of factors or issues including:
- Technical Evaluation
- System optimisation
- Scale-up costs
- Barriers
- Energy recovery - heat capture and transfer efficiency
- Innovation
Following submission of tenders for the funding an award was made in April to Gray Composting Services Ltd. The grant will be used at an existing organics treatment centre in Aberdeenshire to pilot a scheme designed to recover heat from the maturing compost and demonstrate that it can be used as an energy source.
The pilot started in June 2009 and will run to March 2010 when a report on the pilot and its findings will be published.
