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Are New Technologies Deliverable?
Are New Technologies Deliverable?
Speaker: Adam Read, Global Practice Director, AEA
Session Description: This eSession will look in detail at the context surrounding the need for new and innovative waste conversion technologies in the UK (and EU), and consider programs that have been put in place to support them, including the landfill tax, EU targets and fines, and the New Technology Demonstrator Programme – set up in 2004 with £30M to spend in 5 years to help demonstrate pilot plants worked for a number of new technologies.
The web seminar will provide an in-depth analysis of how the changing policy landscape has affected the development of certain technologies, and will look in more detail at the current policy landscape in the UK where realignment of waste and energy policy agendas may have finally opened the door for a portfolio of new CHP, heat driven recovery systems, gasification and pyrolysis solutions.
There have been rapid improvements in vessel composting, anaerobic digestion and traditional mass burn incineration, with greater efficiencies and quality being achieved. This presentation will provide a state of play in terms of these new technologies and look at why they have grown so rapidly in terms of number of facilities and throughput.
However, the adoption of more ‘innovative’ solutions like mechanical biological treatment (MBT), mechanical heat treatment (MHT or autoclaving), solid recovered fuel (SRF) preparation, and gasification and pyrolysis have seen varying degrees of success with the thermal solutions having the least success – but why is that? This eSession will look into what has been achieved, and what remains out of the grasp of these technologies.
A number of case study projects will be discussed (most notably North London) to showcase how policy drivers have changed the technology landscape in the UK.
The web seminar will conclude by looking at the value of a range of policy drivers and support programs to improving the uptake of novel waste technologies and the transferability of certain technologies to the US market space in the coming years.
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