Waste Material Recycling Facility

The facility at Seamer Carr is a new, revolutionary £10m plant to convert household waste into gas to produce energy in the form of electricity and heat.

Seamer Carr Scarborough

The new facility is the first in the UK to employ the GEM technology to produce "syngas" by use of pyrolysis. Pyrolysis involves heating the waste in the absence of air to produce a gaseous fuel, “syngas”. The gas is then used to drive gas turbine to generate electricity.

The plant diverts 18,000 tonnes of Municipal Solid Waste (MWS) from landfill and provide 2.4MW of electricity and 1.8MW of heat output available for potential local utilisation.

EMCE were contracted to install the electrical, instrumentation and control systems for the project.

The project included the installation of a comprehensive cable ladder network, motor control centres, 11Kv switch gear, DCS, temperature, flow and level instrumentation. The installation required 30,000m of cable to be installed to motors and instrumentation.

Client: Scarborough Power Ltd

Value: £440,000

Main Contractor: Carron Engineering & Construction Ltd

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