WTE Incineration Plants In Singapore

Teo Hock Kheng Waste & Resource Management Department

National Environment Agency, Singapore www.nea.gov.sg

29 Sep 2011

Very little land

Hot & humid climate

Rapid urbanisation &

industrialisation

Lots of people

Factors that shaped Singapore’s waste management system

Year

(1,200)

(2,600)

0

1,000

2,000

3,000

4,000

5,000

6,000

7,000

8,000

9,000

1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005

Tonnes per Day

(7,700)

2010 1979

UPIP 1,600 t/d

Incineration capacity

TIP 2,000 t/d

1986

SIP 2,400 t/d

1992

Refuse Growth and Incineration Capacity

TSIP 3,000 t/d

2000

Year 2000 – All incinerable waste to be disposed of at incineration plants

Waste disposal amount

(5,700)

(7,600)

Solid Waste Management System

Producers

Factories & Industries

Consumers

Retail & Commercial

Residential Collection

Waste Generated

Electricity: 454 kWh per tonne incinerated

Ferrous Metals 45 t/d

Waste-to-Energy

Incinerable Waste

Recycle

Non-Incinerable Waste

Ash / fly ash 1,728 t/d

Landfill

Reuse Reduce

7,083 t/d (40%)

17,855 t/d 477 t/d (2%)

10,295 t/d (58%)

Waste Generated 17,855 t/d

Waste Recycled 10,295 t/d

(58%)

Incinerable Waste 7,083 t/d

(40%)

1st WTE Incineration Plant

Commissioned: 1979

Capacity: 1,600 t/d (4 x 400 t/d)

Cost: S$130 million

Generation: 16 MW (1 x 16 MW)

Ulu Pandan Incineration Plant 1979

UPIP 1979

Building more Plants

UPIP 1979 TIP

1986

SIP 1992

TSIP 2000

S/N Plant Year Capacity (tonnes/day)

No. of Boilers

Cost (S$ Mil)

Generation Capacity (MW)

1 Ulu Pandan Incineration Plant (UPIP) 1979 1,600 4 130 1x16 2 Tuas Incineration Plant (TIP) 1986 2,000 5 200 2x23 3 Senoko Incineration Plant (SIP) 1992 2,400 6 560 2x27 4 Tuas South Incineration Plant (TSIP) 2000 3,000 6 900 2x66

Semakau Landfill

UPIP 1979 TIP

1986

SIP 1992

TSIP 2000

Exhausted

Exhausted

Semakau Landfill 350 hectares

1999

Lifespan up to 2040

Partnership with Private Sector

UPIP TIP

SIP

TSIP

Replacement plant by 2009

Awarded: 2006

PPP, Divestment, Closure

UPIP TIP

TSIP

Keppel Seghers Tuas

WTE Plant (KSTP) 30 Oct 2009

SWTE

Senoko WTE Plant (SWTE) Divested: 31 Aug 2009

Present situation

TSIP

TIP KSTP

SWTE

TSIP 3,000

TIP 1,700

Incineration Capacity

KSTP 800

SWTE 2,100

7,600 t/d

Going forward

TIP

TSIP

KSTP

SWTE

Semakau Landfill

Next WTE Plant

1,700 t/d

2,100 t/d

800 t/d

3,000 t/d

Replacement plant needed by 2016/17

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