The Maine Energy Recovery Company: An RDF success story
- KTI Environmental Group, Inc., Saco, ME (United States)
This paper describes the continuing design and operational changes to the Maine Energy Recovery Company and the resulting beneficial impact on plant performance, environmental compliance, and host community relations. The 600 ton/day (TPD) municipal waste combustion (MWC) facility is located in the center of downtown Biddeford, Maine and began operations in 1987 utilizing a refuse-derived (RDF) technology in the production of steam for electric power generation. In August 1988, KTI Operations, Inc. assumed operations responsibility at the Maine Energy Recovery Company facility after the plant experienced a multitude of design and operational problems resulting in low municipal solid waste (MSW) processing and electrical availability, nuisance impacts to the host communities of Biddeford and Saco, and a Consent Agreement for environmentally related problems. During the ensuing three year period, a major retrofit/modification program for the facility was undertaken and numerous changes in operations were made which dramatically improved the MSW processing capability and reliability, significantly increased electrical generation, minimized nuisance impacts, and reduced the emissions of pollutants. Relative to environmental compliance, the facility`s most recent stack test demonstrated the lowest mercury emissions, and the third lowest dioxin/furan emissions of any MWC in the EPA database.
- OSTI ID:
- 287509
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960345-; ISBN 0-7918-1227-8; TRN: IM9639%%97
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 17. biennial conference of the Solid Waste Processing Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and 4th North American waste-to-energy conference, Atlantic City, NJ (United States), 31 Mar - 3 Apr 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of 17. biennial waste processing conference: Proceedings; PB: 496 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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