The integrated Global Olivine Sustainable Resource Recycling Facility (GO – SRRF) technology has been peer-reviewed by leading international experts. Global Olivine Limited maintains associations with a key input panel in which world-leading expertise from many international companies is represented. The UK Environmental Authority reported the process as ‘best available technology’ in their justification for issuing an environmental permit for a Sustainable Resource Recycling Facility at Peterborough.
The vast majority of existing waste-to-energy processes claiming ‘sustainability’ are incomplete, resulting in system inefficiencies and toxic residue being returned to the air, water and soil, often in more highly concentrated forms. These fragmented processes merely change the geographic location of toxic wastes which further pollute the environment and should not claim ‘sustainability’.
Using advanced conversion technology, the GO – SRRF has created a unique, comprehensive and truly sustainable resource recycling system that complies with the world’s highest emission standards for a thermal power plant.
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The GO SRRF integrated system produces energy and saleable by-products from society’s waste, free from harmful emissions, with zero waste to landfill.
The Global Olivine goal is to work in partnership with governments, communities and businesses to deliver sustainable solutions to regional energy, waste, recycling and water desalination needs. Through the integration of processes and by-product industries, a GO – SRRF converts industrial, household, and agricultural waste to valuable resources by recovering energy and making a major contribution to the national grid while powering the manufacture of a range of valuable and saleable products from recycled waste materials. These on-site industries are very power efficient and contribute their waste heat to power generation.
How It Works
A Global Olivine Sustainable Resource Recycling Facility benefits communities, municipalities, countries, and the environment:
• Processes between 1.87 and 2.5 million tonnes of waste p. a. @ 10.4
GJ/T to 7.7 GJ/T average calorific values which is equivalent to 2.636
million barrels of oil. Because of excellent gas scrubbing and high
process efficiency, the plant is able to cleanly use high sulphur coal
as a supplementary fuel which can be replaced by an expanding waste
supply.
• Integrates up to twenty two by-product industries, transforming all
forms of waste, including hazardous materials and sewage sludge, which
produce up to 44 useful, highly competitive and marketable products.
Everything is recycled; no products, toxic or otherwise, are sent to
landfill.
• The plant’s carbon footprint is vastly reduced by the integration of
its onsite industries where the waste products or waste heat from one
process becomes the raw material or energy for another that eliminates
emission of landfill gas emitted to atmosphere. The dismal efficiency of
industry-prevalent landfill gas collection and exported generation
provide the SRRF plant with 1.9 million tonnes of CO2 credit/yr in a
Western Australia study. There is potential for another one million
tonnes/yr as a result of energy savings by the by-product industries
from their energy savings stemming from shared infrastructure, combined
with raw materials savings and the associated energy ingredient saving
from mitigated production and transport. A first plant audit study at
commissioning will verify quantification of these savings and the
international standards and methodology for calculating the parameters
for such CO2 credits will require modification to accommodate GO process
efficiencies and may well see credits increase by around half a million
tonnes.
• A 48% efficient gas fired, dual cycle generator produces 0.42 tonnes
of fossil fuel derived CO2 per MW-h of electricity produced. A 31.4%
efficient GO-SRRF produces 0.22 (Fiji) and 0.38 tonnes (UK) of fossil
fuel-derived CO2 per MW-h produced dependant, on the fuel mix. GO’s
superior performance makes it the most thermally efficient power
generator available in terms of fossil fuel use.
• The plant’s multiple revenue streams allow for reduced power charges
and tipping fees and reduce the cost of products made by onsite
by-product industries. This characteristic also negates sensitivity to
fuel and electricity prices of existing methods of power generation.
• All plant components use proven technologies that have been fully
tested in applications worldwide, mitigating commercial risk.
• Because the plant is constructed by a consortium of committed parties, project deliverability risk is further minimised.
• Proprietary optomised computer controlled beds that manages multiple
source fuel supply,combined with prioritised preheated combustion air
from numerous plant waste heat recovery sources and 8 different supply
sourced containers with indexed calorific values This system displaces
the currently used pit and grab cranes with their odour, fire and hap
hasard heat value selection. GO’s heat management , with long retention,
higher gas residence temperature assures complete combustion and
enables a high temperature gas scrub that vastly extends boiler life and
limits heat and acid spikes. The multiple UHTC’s with these attributes
effect a near uniform flue gas characteristic that with the exchange of
radiant heat recovery for complete combustion and an economiser design
that enables 16.5% additional heat recovery without acid corrosion
effect, which still accommodates a considerable net gain in steam
production efficiency.
• The advanced gasification plant’s emission levels are insignificant;
there are no detectable fumes or odours to atmosphere so no consequent
risks to public health.
• By utilising N-1 power production, dynamic Megavar production, grid
support and spinning reserve are available and plant “down time” is
eliminated. This ensures reliable waste disposal and power generation;
the plant provides extensive grid stability and the consistent ability
to process contracted waste and generate and export contracted power.
• Power export from the site can be reduced at night by operating the
foundry and other high power use by-product industries on a night shift.
Power export is between 140MW and 186MW. This equals about 1,427,500
MWh over a year. Household power consumption varies from 0 to 6.25 MWh
per year, depending on standard of living and whether gas is used for
heating. (UK is up to 4.25 MWh per household per year, and NZ is up to
6.25 MWh per household per year). If a figure of 5 MWh per household per
year is used, then the power output is equivalent to somewhat more than
the energy requirements of 285,500 households.
• Purpose-designed container ships are used for a large portion of waste
transportation, reducing road traffic significantly and allowing the
use of waste from expanded local regions and close-proximity islands,
further lowering the carbon footprint and providing fuel for the plant.
• Operating at a thermal efficiency of 92.9% – 94.0% (when the asphalt
plant is operating) and 31.4% electrical efficiency (compared to 18% –
20% for other waste-to-energy technologies), a GO-SRRF produces 30% –
35% more power than most competing processes per tonne of waste.
Advanced heat recovery technology means more power is generated for the
same amount of CO2 produced, regardless of origin, thereby reducing
atmospheric CO2 levels.
• The aggregated cost of the project and its industries is significantly
less than the cost of building the same standalone power, water and
by-products industries.
• GO-SRRF offers the option of producing up to 123,000 tonnes of fresh
water per day using multiple effect desalination (MED) of seawater in
lieu of cooling towers. This process produces drinking water of better
quality and at a lower cost than the majority of competitive supplies.
GO provides water treatment and calcining, two reservoirs and a pumping
station to inject water into the mains with a 100 metre head. A small
proportion of water production is bottled and sold from the onsite water
bottling and milk reconstitution plant which uses 50% recycled PET
packaging. Household water consumption varies from 0 to 300 cubic metres
per year, depending on the standard of living and the occupancy of each
home. Typical NZ usage is 72.5 cubic metres per person per year. So
GO-SRRF will support the total water requirements of 620,000 people in
NZ.
• A plant will enable a region to plan its future infrastructure development to encourage further industrial development.
• A plant will provide up to 600 direct jobs and 2400 indirect jobs and a new base of industries important to the community.
• Shared regional and project company ownership facilitates a fair
distribution of risk and reward to the required principal parties –
refer to ‘Summary of Investment Opportunity’ to follow for the first
regional and project company ownership in the Philippines.
• The structure is generic and percentages vary for different financial
parameters and waste characteristics encountered in various regions and
localities.
Note: All tonnages per annum (unless noted). *1 includes white-ware, electronics and electrical (WEEE) metallic faction less aluminium.
The GO SRRF Processes and Products
The central plant will consist of 16(+2) Processes providing a base for 22 different onsite industries producing 44 different products.
