MPI Landfill mining
Landfills generally consist of the materials and objects that have been used and dumped since 1960 until today. These include paper, glass, metals, wood and plastic, as well as biomass and industrial waste. The waste would be mixed with soil in the form of covering layers.
Today, combining waste mining with energy transition, it is now technically and economically feasible to fully clean up and sanitise a part of the existing landfills. This frees up valuable space for new purposes. Furthermore, electricity, oil, heat and an enormous amount of scarce raw materials are available again for use in our economy. The manufacturing process takes place in such a way that the machinery can remove the risk from landfills using close to zero-emission technologies.
An MPU for landfill sanitation can reduce the volume of an average dumpsite by ca. 95 percent. The remaining ca. 5 percent consists of sanitised land which can be used for commercial and industrial-building, road-building and hydraulic projects.
In addition, about 70 percent of the waste products can be recycled. The rest is converted into energy and energy carriers to the fullest extent possible. A large amount of energy and heat are released during the entire process. MPI can deliver this directly to the public electricity grid and to buyers in the immediate vicinity.
- Integrated landfill mining
- Landfill sanitation combined with energy production from waste
- Production app. 21.5 MW enough for app. 42000 households (European Standards)Techniques:
- (Co) fermentation, fluidized bed gasification, different pyrolysis techniques and the like
- Steam-water cycle, electrical installations, synthetic- and biogas and synthetic diesel engines
After sanitation the “former” dumpsite is available for any new spatial planning (economical re use)
