THURSDAY, March 28, 2024
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BMA’s second garbage-fuelled power plant to run next year

BMA’s second garbage-fuelled power plant to run next year

Biological gas from garbage will fuel a power plant to be up and running early next year under the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, a senior official said.

Manit Techa-apichok, president of BMA-owned Krungthep Thanakhom (KT) Co Ltd, said this second garbage-fuelled power plant is being built at the On Nut garbage disposal centre.
Manit said the KT has given a concession to a private firm to run and operate the plant, which has now reached 80 per cent completion of construction, and will be operational early in 2020.
Currently, the BMA has one garbage-fuelled power plant at the Nong Khaem garbage disposal centre. This one processes 500 tonnes daily, a fraction of the 10,000 tonnes of garbage that must be disposed of in the capital every day.
Most of the garbage is now buried, said Manit, an environmentally problematic approach.
The second power plant will use Mechanical Biological Waste Treatment (MBT) technology, which is considered environmentally less damaging. Bacteria will “eat” the organic component of the waste and in the process generate methane gas to fuel the power plant.
The process will also yield refuse derived fuel by-products for that will be burned to generate heat for the power plant and to operate garbage recycling processes.
The second power plant project has been budgeted a Bt2 billion and is expected to dispose of garbage at the cost of Bt600 per tonne, Manit said.

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