The principle of TVME consists of upgrading OMRs into biogas (here, the Hénin-Beaumont digesters) and CSR (solid recovered fuels). (photo: Olivier Guichardaz)
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The pioneering TVME plant in Hénin-Beaumont experienced operational difficulties which increased its bill. A new operating contract is in preparation. Symevad hopes to eventually achieve a competitive treatment cost.
It is seldom easy to be a pioneer. When we are concerned with both the method of treatment and the outlets for the by-product (s), it is doubly complicated.
Symevad, a treatment union bringing together 321,000 inhabitants in the Pas-de-Calais, has tried this with its Hénin-Beaumont OMR treatment plant, and for several years, it has paid the price.
The Hauts-de-France Regional Chamber of Accounts (CRC) made public this summer a report of final observations concerning the management of the union (downloadable here). Part of the report is devoted to the material and energy treatment and recovery unit (TVME), built by Tiru from 2013 and inaugurated at the end of 2016.
The TVME is inspired by the process implemented in Kahlenberg, Germany, by the local waste treatment union ZAK (Zweckverband Abfall Kahlenberg; see Waste Info n ° 7) and baptized by the Germans with an English acronym, MYT, for « maximum yeld technology » (maximum efficiency technology). […]
The complete file in Waste Info n° 213.
