Technical Data

Services

  • Project management

Client

  • Zabalgarbi

Tons/Year

240,000

Date

Start of project: 1999
Finished at: 2010

Power plant of Bilbao

published on December 6, 2011

Zabalgarbi is a project company whose purpose is the treatment of Municipal Solid Waste generated in Biskaia. Zabalgarbi is the developer of the construction of a power plant including a combined cycle and a Municipal Solid Waste incineration stream.

The project includes a combustion train of 30 tons/hour, a combined cycle with a gas turbine, a heat recovery steam generator and a steam turbine for a total power of 100 MW (Line 1). The combustion train is designed to handle 240.000 tons/year of municipal solid waste and includes 1 stream of 30 tons/hour waste with a NCV (Net Calorific Value) of 8.500 kJ/kg. The recovery boiler following the incineration furnace delivers saturated steam to a heat recovery steam generator following the gas turbine. The combustion chamber is equipped with a non-catalytic DeNOx system. The flue gas cleaning system comprises of the following stages: spray absorber, activated carbon injection and bag filter.