Tarmac, the UKs largest road surfacing company, has signed a solid recovered fuel (SRF) pellet supply deal with Eco-Power Environmental, which describes itself as a sustainable fuel company.
As part of the deal, pellets will be manufactured using non-recyclable residuals from dry mixed recycling at Eco-Power’s SRF pellet production plant in Humberside. The facility was a £15 million investment and has the capacity to process 125,000 tonnes a year.
Eco-Power Environmental director, Louis Calders, at the SRF production facility (Credit: Shaun Flannery)
The pellets will then be processed at Tarmac’s Tunstead cement kiln in Derbyshire.
Eco-Power said that the deal will “further increase” Tarmac’s use of sustainable fuels, which will “significantly reduce” its carbon footprint and reliance on fossil fuels.
Pioneer
Eco-Power Environmental Group commercial director, Louis Calders, said: “Tarmac has been a pioneer in the use of sustainable fuels, and we are excited by the results we are seeing from the kiln.
“The ease with which pellets can be transported, coupled with their composition and burn characteristics is resulting in high levels of demand from both the UK and Europe. We look forward to ramping up production capability and have a further 3 facilities planned in the UK.”
‘Top priority ’
Tarmac Tunstead cement plant manager Chris Bradbury added that reducing CO2 emissions at the Tunstead facility is a “top priority”.
“Working closely with our colleagues in Sapphire we have made good progress with sustainable waste-derived fuels throughout 2020 and hope to go further in 2021,” Mr Bradbury said.
“We have made good progress with sustainable waste-derived fuels throughout 2020 and hope to go further in 2021”
He added: “We got the opportunity of trialling the SRF pellets early in the year as a replacement for woodchip. The trial went well with only a few modifications required for the inside of the storage silo and feed out system. Once the moderations were completed, we extended the trial which had great results.
In June we then went on to continuous usage and from the start the pellets have proved to be a very stable fuel. These have been one of the main contributors to the continuous high waste-derived fuel substitution rate for fossil fuels from June to the end of the year.”
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