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The plant of agricultural biomass in Sant Rafel burn poultry waste in Catalonia and Valencia
01/04/2009
April 1, 2009
The plant's recovery of poultry waste (manure) that the biomass agricultural company, with headquarters in Tortosa (Tarragona), will open in Sant Rafel the Riu (Valencia) on a daily basis will receive an average of between 20 and 25 trucks arriving from different points of Catalonia and the Valencian Community. The plant will work with manure as a main fuel and diesel oil as a backup in starts, stops and when the temperature falls below 850 ° C. You will have a treatment capacity of 124.500 tonnes per year, an average of 341 tons per day of waste from these birds. The industry will also have some 17 workers, who will be active 24 hours over five days a week. Offices and laboratory will only have a work shift and factory staff three shifts of 8 hours.
The technology allows combustionar poultry manure (manure) in ovens with fuel on a grill. The heat capacity will vary depending on the percentage of manure, feather of bird or other biomass. Among these, the draft cites the husk of rice and firewood. The production of electricity will take place with a high-performance plant and an estimated 15.553,57 kW electrical power. The water needed is obtained from a well of the plot and rainwater. Waste remove an authorised Manager.
Source: The provinces
