Waste conversion

A joint venture between United Utilities and Interserve is proposing to build an advanced thermal conversion waste facility in Derbyshire that will use gasification technology from Energos.

The energy-from-waste plant is part of a proposed integrated waste treatment facility for Derbyshire County Council and Derby City Council, which have appointed the joint venture to build the facility and operate it for 27 years.

Energos, part of UK-based sustainable power group Ener-G, would supply its gasification technology, which has a 10-year track record of safe operation in Norway and Germany and is now operating at the UK’s first gasification plant on the Isle of Wight.

Nick Dawber, managing director of Energos, said: 'The proposed Derbyshire gasification plant would only handle the leftover, residual waste that could not be processed through the facility’s recycling operation.'

Energos uses its own gasification technology - an advanced thermal treatment process that converts residual, non-recyclable waste into a gas by using the heat of partial combustion to liberate hydrocarbons.