Chiang Mai garbage-fired power plant project for Cabinet's consideration

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Garbage-fired power plant project for Cabinet’s consideration



CHIANG MAI: -- Chiang Mai provincial administration is to propose to the cabinet at its meeting in Chiang Mai today an integrated garbage disposal project which includes a power plant fuelled by garbage and a garbage collection terminal.

Mr Chongklai Worapongsathorn, director of the office of natural resources and environment of Chiang Mai, said that the project would be useful to the province and would ease the problem of accumulation of garbages by turning them into electricity.

As for the garbage collection terminal, he explained that the venue should not too far away from the incinerator and the power plant to save transport costs.

A Chiang Mai resident said that the project would be welcomed if it does not pose any environmental problem to the town’s population.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/garbage-fired-power-plant-project-for-cabinets-consideration


-- Thai PBS 2015-06-30

[eliotness]

All well and good if the plant is monitored and maintained to internationally acceptable standards.

[bangon04]

How about a power plant fed entirely by plastic bags?

[slapout]

a repeat of a repeat study made throughtout the world looking at getting rid of the trash where the organic compsition is so high its hard to keep gos burnimg

set out real collection points, with garbage being seperated by type or combustable potential. then you have the bin men protesting as you taken their livelyhood.

when will people accept that 100% approval is next to impossible to acheive.? with the exception of a good squeeze and or drink and that may be modified when you sober up or remember

[whiterussian]

Hopefully they can switch it off in the burning season. Nearly killed me that last one...

landfill and methane perhaps better

but not as nice as:

http://weben.dede.go.th/webmax/content/geothermal-energy-thailand

The 10-year AEDP sets a target to develop 1 MW of power production from geothermal. As of 2006, a study by the Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency found a total of 112 hot brine sources in in every regions of Thailand except Northeastern. Water temperatures on the surface level ranged between 40-100 degrees Celsius and most of the hot springs were originated from granite, especially along the fault line, in the Northern provinces such at Mae Jan in Chiangrai and Fang in Chiangmai.

The Department of Mineral Resources, in collaboration with the Chiangmai University and the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, had test-run a 300KW power production from geothermal project at Fang in Chiangmai. Power production cost of the project was eight times cheaper than production from fossil fuel, with several times cheaper maintenance cost and longer durability.

[eliotness]

Hopefully they can switch it off in the burning season. Nearly killed me that last one...

landfill and methane perhaps better

but not as nice as:

http://weben.dede.go.th/webmax/content/geothermal-energy-thailand

The 10-year AEDP sets a target to develop 1 MW of power production from geothermal. As of 2006, a study by the Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency found a total of 112 hot brine sources in in every regions of Thailand except Northeastern. Water temperatures on the surface level ranged between 40-100 degrees Celsius and most of the hot springs were originated from granite, especially along the fault line, in the Northern provinces such at Mae Jan in Chiangrai and Fang in Chiangmai.

The Department of Mineral Resources, in collaboration with the Chiangmai University and the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, had test-run a 300KW power production from geothermal project at Fang in Chiangmai. Power production cost of the project was eight times cheaper than production from fossil fuel, with several times cheaper maintenance cost and longer durability.

Never realised this was a possibility, sounds brilliant, but why isn't the current government making positive noises about it, after all it was supposed to be a 10 year project started in 2006. Please can any of the readers throw more light on this.

[whiterussian]

Bio waste 3.5 Mw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RJjujzve9I

CM Uni Geothermal Map and data (also talks of Fluoride in water)

Conclusions

This paper attempts to gather the scattered geologic information

on major geothermal systems of northern Thailand. There

is a clear association of the systems with faults believed to be

active during the late Cenozoic. All hot springs have high fluoride

(> 10 mg/l). The anomalous pattern of high fluoride wells

(> 1.5 mg/l) in the Chiang Mai basin sediments suggests this is

a “blind geothermal system” masked by Cenozoic sediments in

which deep hot water mixes with basin waters as it flows upward

through permeable fault zones. The Mae Chan geothermal system

is clearly associated with the active Mae Chan strike-slip fault

zone. That fault zone contains several hot springs distributed

along its ~ 140-km-long trace. A project is currently underway

by the Thailand Department of Groundwater Resources, Chiang

Mai University, and Mahidol University to evaluate these systems

for drilling locations in hopes of generating 2-5 MWe of electrical

power.

Edited July 4, 2015 by whiterussian

[worgeordie]

Common sense would dictate that the garbage fueled power plant

and the garbage collection depot should be in same compound,

then there would be no extra transport costs,just maybe conveyor

belts feeding the combustible material into the furnaces.

regards worgeordie