ABB has delivered a life extension and expansion project for LondonEnergy’s energy-from-waste (EfW) facility in London, the UK.
The upgrade has enabled LondonEnergy to improve the plant’s resilience and enable the connection of an additional steam turbine, which will increase annual green energy production to 1000 megawatt-hours (MWh), equivalent to the electricity consumption of 80,000 homes and businesses.
“By upgrading our existing EfW plant, we have renewed confidence in our ability to keep waste out of landfill and minimise our carbon footprint.
“The new system allows us to monitor, control and automate the entire EfW plant’s electrical assets from one touch-screen user interface,” said Charles Bell, LondonEnergy’s E&I Manager.
A feature of the project is the ABB Ability Electrification Monitoring and Control ZEE600, one of the first to be deployed in the UK.
It acts as a hub to integrate data from five generators, as well as power distribution systems, grid connection, and drives and motors in waste-handling units.
Operators interact with the system via a touch-screen interface that gives visibility and control, as well as access to alerts and historic performance data.
The project required upgrading of four original generators and interfacing them with a modern digital control system, as well as adding a new generator.
To achieve this, ABB delivered modelling and analysis, before developing a scheme that combines the existing and new technologies.
ABB also delivered training to help LondonEnergy’s operators transition to the new control technology.