Major Participants In Chinese Waste To Energy Market

Mangrove is associated with the Beijing Cement Plant, and uses the cement kiln operation for waste treatment. The facility is allowed to accept a variety of waste materials (principally industrial waste) including waste acids, organic solvents, mineral oil, emulsions, paint wastes, waste resins, and other inorganic and organic wastes. Non-hazardous wastes accepted include any wastes with a heat value of more than 6000 calories per kilogram (such as paper and wood).

The SJEEC operation in Qinghecun includes waste storage, incinerator, and wastewater treatment.

China Industrial Waste Management is a publicly traded company founded in 1991 engaged in the collection, treatment, disposal and recycling of industrial waste primarily from Liaoning Province. CIWT operates four facilities with a combined 35,300 tons of capacity, but plans are in place to double capacity. The new capacity is being built partially with the sponsorship of the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission which has plans to build 55 hazardous waste treatment centers throughout China. (Financial results indicate revenues and profits for the first half of 2009 to be significantly below 2008 levels.)

CIWM operates 3 businesses: industrial waste management, municipal build/operate/transfer, and environmental protection engineering (waste water).

Dalian Dongtai is a 90% owned subsidiary of China Industrial Waste Management. This subsidiary has provided a majority of corporate income to date. Waste handled is primarily from chemical and metallurgical manufacturing. They treat waste using incineration, burial and water treatment.

Fujian HW Management operates an industrial waste incinerator permitted to receive waste only from within the Fujian province including approximately 20-30 hospitals.

Guangdong Environmental Protection Bureau approval, the facility is approved to treat/dispose of 47 of the 49 waste categories listed in the China National Classification of Hazardous Wastes - only HW15 (explosive waste) and HW19 (metallic carbonyl compound) are prohibited. Medical wastes are also not accepted for treatment/disposal at this time.

Facility operations include:
Physical-Chemical Treatment including treatment tanks and reactors
Wastewater Treatment
Stabilization
Incineration
Secure Landfill Disposal

The 13,700 m2 incinerator complex uses rotary kiln technology and has a capacity of 10,000 tons per year (30 tons per day). The system is composed of three main parts: waste pretreatment and feeding system; combustion system; and the flue gas treatment system. The waste pretreatment and feeding system includes eight different ways to feed high calorific waste into the incinerator - 3 for solid wastes and 5 for liquid wastes. The 3 meter diameter x 10 meter long rotary kiln for initial treatment (850-1200 C for a period of 50-70 minutes) is followed by a secondary combustion chamber (which burns the off-gases at 1200 C.) The flue gas enters a waste heat boiler to generate steam for internal use. Flue gas treatment includes gas scrubbing system to remove the acid substances, is then subject to activated carbon injection to control dioxin emissions, and then finally the gas is subject to bag house filtration to control dust emissions prior to discharge up the 50 meter high stack. The system is also equipped with an on-line continuous emissions monitoring system.

Jiangxi Hazardous Waste & Jiujiang City Medical Waste Disposal Center is a government owned hazardous and medical waste disposal center for Jiangxi Provinceprojected for completion in 2010.

Singapore based Keppel believes they have a 60 per cent market share in imported WTE technology for the Chinese market. Last year, Keppel secured two projects, one in Tianjin and the other in Shandong. Keppel signed an agreement with Sjenzhen Energy to more than double the size of Shenzhen's existing WTE facility. (Keppel has also obtained orders in the Middle East and U.K.; they also provide wastewater treatment solutions.)

Liqun operates a hazardous waste disposal incinerator consisting of a rotary kiln which was installed in 2004. A shaft kiln might also be operational.

The facility processes both hazardous and nonhazardous industrial wastes, as well as medical wastes in two pyrolysis incineration units.

Panyu Luyou processes a variety of wastes including hazardous wastes using a number of processes and recycling streams. One of the many processes is incineration. The company currently employs 1000 people.

Lvfeng processes a variety of non-hazardous materials. Activities include solid waste collection, storage and transfer, physical breaking/pulverizing, plastic regeneration, and incineration. Main equipment includes one incinerator (with affiliated air emission unit), one granulating machine and two comminuting/pulverizing machines.

Qingdao New World currently operates several waste handling or treatment units:
Incineration of medical and hazardous wastes in a fluidized bed incinerator
Non-hazardous industrial waste landfill
Hazardous waste storage
Electronic waste dismantling (Certain components with limited recycle potential are also incinerated.)

SCIP Swire SITA Services is an industrial hazardous waste management company which operates an incinerator in the Shanghai Industrial Park. It was one of the first companies certified by the State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) since replaced by MEP. Sixty percent of the waste for that incinerator is from within the park (which is specialized in chemical and petrochemical processes. The incinerator including two rotary kilns has a capacity of 60,000 tons annually and provides 240,000 metric tons of steam to Shanghai BASF Polyurethane Co. The systems include appurtenant waste feed, ash handling, and air pollution control systems, with scrubbers, demisters, and stacks. They are fully redundant, and can be run totally independently, although they are intended to both run continuously.

The Institute of Waste Treatment and Reclamation of Tongji University was involved in the technical analysis and design.

This facility is the only legal hazardous waste landfill disposal operation within the Shanghai Province (including medical waste.) They conduct simple cement/lime stabilization or solidification of all wastes prior to placement in the landfill. The facility accepts primarily fly ash from two major regional municipal solid waste (MSW) incinerators (Pudong Yuqiao and Puxi Jiangquao), as well as other fly ash from local hazardous waste incinerators.

Shanghai Xing Yue accepts both hazardous and nonhazardous industrial wastes for rotary kiln incineration.

Shenzhen Energy is a privately owned (Huaneng Power International is the second largest shareholder) energy company; one of the main power generation companies in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. They own and operate a WTE built in approximately 1999. In 2010 they will embark on an expansion to enable them to treat 4,200 tonnes of solid waste per day ( 2.5 times more than existing capacity.) Their existing facility is widely thought to have good emission control.

Sludge is incinerated onsite. Heshun treats about 80 tons of liquid waste per day on an as-needed basis.

Company has two identical pyrolysis incinerator trains. (One serves as a backup.) Wastes are fed into the pyrolysis chamber, and then conveyed into the primary combustion chamber, where diesel fuel is added to fire the chamber. The waste materials are burned in the primary chamber at 800ºC. Materials not destroyed in the primary chamber are transferred into the secondary incineration chamber and remain for 2 seconds at 1100ºC.

Veolia, the largest global waste management operator has multiple Asian contracts for the maintenance, operation or construction of waste-to-energy plants. They have a relationship with ZhongDe Waste Technology. Their first project in Asia was a WTE facility in Macau.

Chinese references include:
    Shanghai Jiangqiao MSW Incineration Plant, China mainland (provided technical assistance for start-up and commisioning)
    Guangzhou Likeng Waste-to-Energy Plant, China mainland (operator) (1,000 tonnes/day 21MW)
    Macau Refuse Incineration Plant (joint owner and operator)

    TaiChung City Incineration Plant, Taiwan
    ChiaYi City Incineration Plant, Taiwan
    LuTsao Incineration Plant, Taiwan
    LiTzer, YiLan County Incineration Plant, Taiwan
    BaLi, Taipei County Incineration Plant, Taiwan (1350 tonnes per day 41MW)
    Yongkang Incinetation Plant, Taiwan
    Taitung BOO Incineration Plant, Taiwan

Waste Management owns a 40% stake in Shanghai Environment Group, a company focused on developing waste-to-energy plants in China.

Hazardous wastes currently handled by Yuxin include medical wastes, pesticide residues, solvent, paint residues, sludge, and alkali wastes. Liquid wastes are generally mixed with solid waste such as activated carbon before incineration, and semi-solid wastes are usually fed into the incinerator by spray gun.

ZhongDe Group is one of the leading suppliers of state-of-the-art solid waste incinerators in China.

ZhongDe Group also acts as one of the leading players of large-size Waste-to-Energy industry in China.

ZhongDe Group designs, manufactures and installs pyrolytic, grate and rotary kiln waste incinerators for the disposal of solid municipal, industrial (including hazardous) and medical waste. They also provide complete incineration plants with electricity generation.

Since 1996, ZhongDe Group has installed approximately 200 waste incinerators in about 13 provinces ( more than 80 waste incinerators in the last three years.) Customers are primarily small and midsized Chinese cities and operators of medical disposal centres in the hospital and healthcare industry.

Original production facility in Fuzhou has capacity to produce 60 units with approximately 285 employees
Second production facility in Bejing has capacity to produce 120 units per year

Provide BOT (Build, Operate, Transfer) projects and BOO (Build, Operate, Own) projects.T

They estimate that they have 35% of the Chinese medical waste disposal market.

International markets include: Malaysia, Turkey, Vietnam and Nigeria

    Projects include:Datong (see summary below)
                            Zhucheng
                            Feicheng, Shandong
                            Xihua, Hennan
                            Xinjiang, Shanxi
                            LianShui, JiangSu

In January 2010 obtained their fourth major project (229M RMB), a 600 ton per day 9MW WTE facility for Daqilian Village, Hebei Province. Each of the incinerators is to be equipped with wet gas cleaning. Since 1996, ZhongDe Group has supplied approximately 200 waste incineration plants to 13 provinces throughout China (more than 80 in the past three years.)

ZhongDe may have a strategy to build plants with BOO contracts (ie build own and operate) instead of BOT (build own transfer.)

Datong

Datong was ZhongDe’s first large size waste-to-energy project.

Project start-up date: November 2009.

Total revenue for the Datong was approx. EUR 32M (plus tax)
Gross profit margin for Datong project was approx. 25%.

Datong has a circulatory fluidized bed waste incinerator supplemented with less than 20% coal.

Three incineration lines (one is standby):
Daily treatment capacity of 500 tons each
(ie the facility is designed to handle 1,000 tons of MSW daily with total capacity of 1,500 tons.)

Based on a yearly utilization of 7,600 hours expected volume is
316,600 tons per year.
( Annual maximum capacity is 360,000tons.)