WMRC DiCOM FACILITY

Brockway Road Transfer Station, Shenton Park, Western Australia.

Western Metropolitan Regional Council (WMRC) is one of Perth's regional waste management groups comprising 5 members; namely Mosman Park, Cottesloe, Claremont, Peppermint Grove and Subiaco councils.

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AnaeCo, in conjunction with its Australian Alliance partner Palisade Investment Partners, has an agreement with the WMRC to construct and operate a commercial-scale DiCOM facility at its existing waste transfer station, 6 kilometres from the Perth Central Business District.

The facility will include a waste sorting and preparation facility and three DiCOM biological processing vessels, including associated ancillary equipment. The facility is located immediately adjacent to the existing Transfer Station building.

Total land area to be occupied by the 55,000tpa facility, adjacent to the existing Transfer Station building, is around 2,000m².

The project will be a powerful demonstration of the potential that the DiCOM technology presents in the MSW processing sector as it will, for the first time in Australia, allow for the retrofitting of existing Transfer Stations with MSW processing technology.

The project is being constructed in two stages. Stage 1 involves the construction of a preliminary material recovery facility (MRF) and one DiCOM bioconversion vessel. Stage 1 achieved completion of construction in November 2008, and was followed by commissioning and performance trials. Upon successful completion of the performance trials the project will revert to construction mode with finalisation of the MRF and addition of two more DiCOM bioconversion vessels.

The following pictures illustrate the completion of Stage 1 at November 2008.