Transcript EcoMetrix Africa is one of Southern Africa’s leading

Sustainable Waste Management
Waste to Energy and its Potential to Mitigate GHG Emissions
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Lodewijk Nell
25 March 2015
Joburg Waste Summit
Introduction EcoMetrix Africa
EcoMetrix Africa is one of Southern Africa’s leading companies in the field of carbon
management, carbon trading and the implementation of low carbon technologies.
• EcoMetrix provides carbon services along three distinct service lines, leveraging its
unmatched global and domestic experience and track record in the field of:
Carbon Management
Carbon Financing & Energy Policies
Energy Technologies
‘Improving a company’s carbon
and energy performance’
‘Improving business cases securing benefits from
carbon credits and other incentives’
‘Introducing low carbon technologies and
energy efficiency to Southern Africa’
• EcoMetrix has successfully delivered and engaged with a wide range of South African and
global companies, among which:
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Agenda
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• Sustainable Waste Management – The Challenge / Opportunity
• Energy Recovery – Biogas Production
• Example – Northern Water Works
• Biogas Advantages and Challenges
• Outlook
The Common Waste Challenge: Shift from a collection and disposal dominated waste hierarchy
to a waste minimization and recycling dominated hierarchy. Reduce, re-use and recycle are
preferred options both cost-wise as well as looking at the carbon mitigation impact.
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Several industrialized countries have implemented policies and regulations promoting this shift
successfully up to the extent that landfilling is reduced to levels below 20% and recycling
increased up to a level above 45%. South Africa is still only at the beginning of this shift.
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(including composting and
digestion)
Within Energy Recovery, Biogas is gaining momentum with the first Landfill Gas and Anaerobic
Digestion projects and interest/stakeholder groups like SABVIA and the National Biogas Platform
emerging.
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Bio2Watts Bronkhorstspruit
Anaerobic Digestion / Electricity Generation
Joburg Water Northern Water Works
Anaerobic Digestion / Combined Heat Power
CoJ and Ener-G Systems Robinson Deep
Landfill Gas Collection / Electricity Generation
When avoiding methane emissions and using it as energy the mitigation benefit is two-fold:
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Destruction of methane: 1 molecule of CH4 is equivalent to 21 molecules CO2
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Offsetting coal based electricity (use of biogas): about 1 ton CO2 per 1000 kWh
Equivalent mitigation by CH4 destruction: 500 Nm3 biogas = 300 Nm3 CH4 x 21 x 0.7 kg/m3 = 4.4 tCO2-e
Project Example - Northern Water Works
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430 million litres of sewage/day
Current project:
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Four digesters refurbished
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Three CHP units installed
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Up to 1.1 MW electricity for own use
Total potential:
* 60% Methane Content Assumed
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40,000 Nm3/day biogas
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Around 4 MW electricity
Various Biogas Sources which vary widely in characteristics (e.g. volume, quality, current use)
and requirements (e.g. critical mass, pricing) when developing viable project models.
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Waste Water
Municipal Solid Waste
Industrial Residues
Biogas Sources
Agricultural Waste
Animal Residues
Forestry Waste
South Africa’s Mitigation Policies – Transport / Biogas
Biogas from Waste is generally in competition with alternative use (no real waste) and when
converted into energy a decision needs to be made with respect to how to deploy the energy
produced, whether internally or externally and in which form heat/electricity/fuel.
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e.g. as a fuel for boilers
Waste Sold to others
Bio “Waste”
Power
Heat
Heat/Power
Fuel
Internal Use
Power
Heat
Heat/Power
External Use
Fuel
Outlook
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Waste to Biogas has considerable advantages:
• Renewable source
• Reduces need for landfilling
• Clean natural biological process
• Creation of jobs
But will require public and private efforts to grow a credible market:
• Mobilization of dispersed and heterogeneous resources.
• Lack of data about waste sources.
• Regulatory barriers e.g. wheeling electricity via the grid, revenue generation by municipalities
Overall Theoretical Potential CoJ
Municipal Waste: 4,110 t/d equal to a max. of 200-400,000 Nm3/day biogas
CoJ Waste Water: 95,000 Nm3/day biogas
What about practical? What will we use if for?
Contact Details
EcoMetrix Africa (Pty) Ltd.
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[email protected]
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011 44 77 892
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www.ecometrix.co.za
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3rd Floor, The Travel House
4-6 Hood Street, Rosebank
Johannesburg, 2196
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