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RWM – Resource & Waste Management Expo
A world without landfill! Where waste is a resource to sustain a carbon neutral global economy
Biffa reduces conveyor maintenance and cleaning time at MRF with STARCLEAN® belt cleaners
National waste management experts, Biffa, have MRF’s throughout the UK. Their plant in Leicester uses 20+ belt conveyors as part of their black bin waste recycling operation.
STARCLEAN® installation at Biffa STARCLEAN® pre-cleaner
Handling household waste is difficult due to the variety of materials, which includes plastics, metals, wood, paper, and large amounts of sticky organic materials. This material builds-up on conveyor structures and also drops onto the floor, causing significant maintenance and housekeeping issues.
On one conveyor, the shredded and organic waste would build up on-and-around the head drum in significant quantities. The rudimentary belt cleaner installed couldn’t effectively clean the belt and became overwhelmed with the waste. The engineering team would then have to spend ~15 minutes per day cleaning this area, and regularly removed 4 wheelbarrows of waste.
In search of an improvement, the Engineering Supervisor contacted ProSpare.
A ProSpare service engineer visited site to assess the facility and scope the conveyor.
The installation of a STARCLEAN® belt cleaner was recommended, and a trial agreed. The STARCLEAN® pre-cleaner was installed on the head drum of the conveyor and specified with polyurethane blades, ensuring the scraper was able to efficiently combat the wide variety of materials handled.
Following the install of STARCLEAN®, the amount of waste building up on-and-around the head drum has significantly reduced.
Previously, the engineering team spent 15 minutes per day cleaning the head drum, this has now been reduced to 5-10 minutes twice per week, saving up to an hour per week.
Waste cleaned from the area has also reduced from 4 wheelbarrows per day to just 2 per week, saving approximately 16 wheelbarrows per week.
The time saved can now be reinvested to maintain other locations around the plant. As the area is cleaner, exposure to risk has also reduced.
Following the success of the trial installation, the team on site are now installing a number of STARCLEAN® belt cleaners across the network of conveyors.
For more information visit www.prospare.co.uk
Turmec is constantly evolving to move with the change in waste streams and is continuously investing in developing new ways to process waste. Turmec have launched a new Aftersales CRM system, the next generation of rapid solutions providing customers with one central place to order spare parts and services and achieve a faster response time.
Turmec design and build innovative, cost effective, easy to operate, environmentally sustainable engineering solutions
With more than 50 years’ experience in the engineering and recycling industries Turmec offers planning, design, manufacturing, installation and support to waste and recycling management companies globally.
From a base in Gaeltacht at Rathcairn, Co. Meath, an in-house team of engineers and designers offer a complete turnkey process, from conceptual drawings to a fully operational plant, for bespoke plants through to solutions for new or existing plants, and general engineering projects.
One of Turmec’s key projects is the Turmec/Rino project, the world’s largest state-of-the-art construction waste processing facility in Brisbane.
Geoff Bailey Chief Executive Officer says this project is a testament to Turmec’s commitment to sustainable waste management and its ability to deliver large-scale, complex projects.
The €30m project began in March 2022 with a timeline for completion by November 2023. The facility processes Construction & Demolition (C&D) and Commercial & Industrial (C&I) waste, with a processing capacity of 475,000 tonnes per hour. It’s a world-first, able to sort through wet and dry waste under one roof.
The Turmec Team behind a World-first recycling facility in Brisbane
Upon completion of the plant, Dan Blaser, Rino Recycling General Manager, said they had scoured the globe and “brought together the best engineers in the world to successfully collaborate with us to deliver a leading plant that underpins a strong sustainable recycling industry for Australia”.
Geoff Bailey, Turmec Chief Executive Officer, says the project is the company’s largest, by scale, in its long history in the supply and installation of mechanical treatment plants worldwide.
“Our expertise and knowledge made us the ideal candidate for this project, which is the biggest mixed construction and demolition plant in the world by volume,” Goeff says.
“The solution Turmec created and installed, in collaboration with wet plant specialists CDE, means that varied waste types can be integrated into an automated production line which effectively separates out the materials allowing for the production of a number of high-quality products such as aggregates and road base. The residual waste can be used as fuel for industrial boilers.”
For more information visit: www.turmec.com
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