Dade County Resources Recovery Facility

Conference · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5652923

Strong, C R; Portuondo, J ^[1]

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1. Montenay Power Corp. (US)

The Dade County Resources Recovery Facility was built for the county and operated by Parsons and Whittemore from 1981 to 1985. It was permitted to process 920,000 tons per year of MSW. Trash was processed into RDF through a two shredder dry system and garbage through a wet process hydrosposal system producing 50% moisture RDF. The RDF was burned in four water tube boilers to produce superheated steam to drive 2-38.5 MW turbine generators. FP and L purchased the generated electricity. The plant ran at 18,000 tons/Wk. for a short time. By early 1985, the plant was in disrepair, the wet process had caused serious equipment erosion and corrosion, especially in the boilers and the wet process had created serious regulatory and public pressure due to odors and emissions. P and W was removed by the county in June 1985 and replaced by Montenay Power Corp. as plant operator. Mountenay has developed and presented to the county a rehabilitation plan to get the plant back to capacity by 1990. The wet process was shutdown in September 1986.

• OSTI ID: 5652923
• Report Number(s): CONF-880348--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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