WHEELABRATOR SAUGUS, INC.
Located in Saugus, Massachusetts, the Wheelabrator Saugus waste-to-energy facility provides dependable, environmentally safe disposal of municipal solid waste for 750,000 people, while generating clean electricity for sale to the local utility. In continuous operation since 1975, this landmark facility is the United States’ first commercially successful waste-to-energy facility.
Designed, constructed, owned and operated by Wheelabrator, Wheelabrator Saugus process up to 1,500 tons per day of municipal solid waste from 10 communities on the North Shore of Massachusetts. Wheelabrator Saugus has an electric generating capacity of 38,000 kilowatts; the equivalent of supplying the electrical needs of 47,000 Massachusetts homes.
- GENERAL
- Area Served:
- Boston North Shore Communities
- 750,000 People
- Type of Contract:
- Own, operate
- Start-up: October 1975
- REFUSE COMBUSTION
- Type of System:
- Waterwall boilers
- Operation:
- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Number of Process Lines: 2 @ 750 tons per day each
- Feed System: 2 overhead refuse cranes and ram feeders
- Grate Design: Von Roll reciprocating grates
- Combustion Temperature: 2000°F+
- Waste Volume Reduction: 90%
- Ash Handling System: Water quench, drag conveyor ferrous, aggregate
- Materials Recovery: Ferrous
- AIR QUALITY CONTROL
- Type of Equipment: Dry scrubbers, fabric filters, SNCR (NOx controls), carbon injection
- ENERGY PRODUCTION
- Type of Energy: Electric power
- Flow to Turbine: 370,000 pounds per hour @ 650 psig/850*F
- Electric Generating Capacity: 38 megawatts/850*F
- Cooling System: Once-through cooling
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