Southeast Resource Recovery Facility (SERRF)

Collective Resource Service LLC (CRS) team designed the SERRF project  to receive, store, and burn acceptable waste to produce electricity.  The facility operates in accordance with applicable permits and  environmental standards. The technology used is a process generally  known as “mass burn” in which solid waste is burned with little or no  pre-combustion processing taking place at the facility in Long Beach,  California. The technology reduces solid waste by about 80% while  recovering electrical energy. The Mass Burn Technology has been used  successfully in Europe since the early 1900’s and in the United States  since 1970. Once the material is processed the ash residue can be reused  as a road base at local landfills.  The facility also recycles approximately 10,000 tons of ferrous (steel) metals each year.

Since  the facility began operations, it has processed more than 10 million  tons of solid waste in an environmentally safe and responsible manner,  reducing the volume of solid waste sent to landfills by more than 11  million cubic yards. That's equivalent to a mound of trash the length and width of a football field piled nine times the height of the Empire  State Building.

In addition, the facility performs "front-end" and  "back-end" recycling by recovering such items as white goods prior to  incineration and metals after incineration. Each month, an average of 825 tons of metal are recycled rather than sent to a landfill.

Project Details:

• Location: Long Beach, CA. USA
• Project Status: Completion:  July 1988
• Rated Capacity: 36 MW
• Energy to Waste System: 3 Steinmueller Boilers producing 117,170 lb/hr of stea,  IMO DeLaval Turbine and an Alsthom Generato
• Boiler Design: 600 psig/750 °F super heater outlet conditions

Air Pollution Control Equipment:

• Acid/Sulfur Control - Semi-dry scrubbers
• Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) Control – Aqueous Ammonia Injection
• Particulate Control – Reverse Air Baghouse

Rated Refuse Capacity: 1,380 tons per day or 500,000 tons per year

References:

• Convanta Long Beach Renewable Energy Corp.