Industrial references

FRANCE

Cenon – 7 tons / day

Treatment capacity: 7 tons / day or 2400 tons per year,
Waste type: fly ash from the incineration of household waste (120,000 tons/y) and sludge (18,000 tons/y),
Operation : 24/7 since 1998,
Byproduct: Plasmalit, an inert and non-hazardous slag, crushed at oven exit and used in paving slabs.

JAPAN

Kakogawa - 30 tons / day

Treatment capacity: 30 tons / day, more than 10,000 tons per year,
Waste type: ashes from a fluidized bed incinerator (150,000 tons / year),
Operation : Operation: 24/7 since 2003,
Byproduct: inert, non-hazardous slag, crushed at oven exit and used in road works.

Shimonoséki - 41 tons / day

Treatment capacity: 41 tons / day, more than 14,000 tons per year,
Waste type: fly ash and boiler ash from a waste incinerator (household waste: 140,000 t/year),
Operation : 24/7 since 2002,
Byproduct: inert, non-hazardous slag, crushed at oven exit and used in road works.

Imizu - 12 t/jour

Treatment capacity: 12 t/day,more than 4 000 tons per year,
Waste type: fly ashes coming from a fluidised bed incinerator (MSW : 50 000 t/y),
Operation : 7/24 since 2002,
Byproduct: inert, non-hazardous slag, crushed at oven exit and used in road works.

Maizuru - 6 tons / day

Treatment capacity: 6 tons / day, more than 2,000 tons per year,
Waste type: fly ash and boiler ash from a waste incinerator (domestic waste: 80,000 t / year),
Operation : 24/7 since 2003,
Byproduct: inert, non-hazardous slag, crushed at oven exit and used in road works.

These plants have been built in partnership with Japanese conglomerates Kobe Steel Corp and Hitachi Zosen, under license from Europlasma.

SOUTH KOREA

Yongin City - 15 tons / day

Treatment capacity: 15 tons / day or 5,000 tons per year,
Waste type: fly ash from the incineration of wastewater treatment plant sludge,
Operation : 24/7 since September 2009,
Byproduct: inert, non-hazardous slag, crushed at oven exit and used in road works.

This installation has been erected in partnership with KESCO (Kolon Environmental Service Co., Ltd), under license from Europlasma.

BULGARIA

Kozloduy NPP

Europlasma collaborates with Iberdrola and Belgoprocess on a radioactive waste treatment and conditioning contract in Bulgaria.

Iberdrola Ingeniería y Construcción S.A.U (Iberdrola) and Belgoprocess L.L.C. (Belgoprocess) have been selected at the end of 2009 by Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant Plc (KNPP) to provide the Kozloduy nuclear power plant site with a plant for the treatment and conditioning of solid radioactive waste with high volume reduction.

Iberdrola and Belgoprocess, co-leaders of the consortium, are jointly responsible for designing, manufacturing, installing and commissioning the facility. They will also train KNPP teams under the license process.