Emissions
The combined effect of pyrolysis, gasification, high temperature oxidation and
advanced NOx and acid gas abatement minimises pollution to extremely low levels.
The system may be regarded as the Best Practical Environmental Option (BPEO) for
the thermal destruction of waste. The design also meets the more general objective
of promoting the best environmental options for waste disposal.
Gaseous emissions from Compact Power plant processing MSW are well within all
integrated pollution control standards and compare very favourably with typical results
from modern incineration plant.
To view daily emission statistics (please click here)
Reduced visual impact
Proximity principle
Waste is processed close to source and recovered materials and energy can be used
locally. Transportation impact is greatly reduced.
Small solutions for total waste management
With the multi-fuel capacity of the plant, a community can develop a local facility to
meet total local waste to energy requirements.
Climate change
Energy recovery and CHP up to 80% of the energy value in the waste is recovered in
the form of usable heat and power.
Affordable heat and job creation.- the small size of Compact Power systems is ideal
for communities heating and industrial CHP applications.
Solid residues
MSW input can be reduced to c.15% by weight (after materials recovery) and c.10%
by volume. Ash residues have been shown to be inert and non-leachable and may
be used in the manufacture of building materials.
Compact Power Holdings plc AGM – Media Release – 30xi06Compact Power Holdings plc, the the AIM listed waste and biomass to energy company, held its Annual General Meeting in Bristol today. All resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed. Following completion of the formal business of the meeting, the Chairman, Nic Cooper, made the following statement: ‘Trading at the existing Avonmouth plant continues to improve with unaudited revenues for the six months to 30 September 2006 up 28 per cent on the same period last year due to higher volumes and gate fees. PDF
Compact Power wins €1.64 million European contract. – Press ReleaseBristol 29 November 2006 Compact Power Holdings plc (‘Compact Power’), the AIM listed waste and biomass to energy company, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a €1.64 million contract by Italcementi S.p.A. of Bergamo, Italy. The contract is to design, supply and install a Compact Power pyrolysis and gasification plant in Italcementi’s cement plant at Salerno in Southern Italy. The plant will produce a fuel gas generated from waste material which will be fed into the cement plant, replacing fossil fuels normally used in the process. PDF
Royal Navy Contract – Press Release – 23xi06Bristol based AIM quoted energy from waste company is pleased to announce that an order has been received from QinetiQ for the design and supply of a waste processing plant to be installed in HMS Ocean the Royal Navy’s largest surface vessel. This order valued at £238,000 for Compact Power follows the successful construction and operation of a prototype for QinetiQ at their test facility at Haslar near Gosport. PDF
Defra agrees to £5m funding for Bristol pyrolysis plant (14.11.06) – LetsRecycle.com – 14xi06A waste pyrolysis plant proposed for Bristol has at last received funding approval from Defra under the £30 million New Technologies Demonstrator Programme. Biomass-to-energy company Compact Power is to receive £5 million from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for the £20m plant, which should now be operational by the third quarter of 2008. PDF
£5million funding awarded by Defra – Press Release – 14xi06Compact Power Holdings plc (“Compact Power”), the AIM listed waste and biomass to energy company, is pleased to announce that it has completed a £5 million funding deal with The Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) under their New Technologies Demonstrator Programme. This funding clears the way for Compact Power to finalise the financing for a major project at Avonmouth. This project will undertake a programme with Bristol City Council to evaluate Compact Power’s technology for the processing of municipal waste. PDF