The Tyseley Energy from Waste Plant is a large incineration plant in the Tyseley area of Birmingham, England. It burns rubbish and in the process produces electricity for the National Grid.
It was built in 1996 by Veolia to a design by Faulks Perry Culley & Rech.[1] The automated facility runs 24 hours a day 365 days a year and takes 350,000 tonnes of waste produced by the city annually and converts it into electricity of which 25MW[2] is fed into the National Grid (roughly enough to power 25,000 homes.) Some of the electricity produced is used for an illumination show, which is visible within the four vertical structures on the outside of the building at night. The vertical bands change colour and the lighting scheme has won awards.
The waste Incinerator Bottom Ash (IBA) from the process is screened for metals and then graded for use as an aggregate for road building, this accounts for 95% of the IBA produced.
The only hazardous wastes produced are Fly Ash (Air Pollution Control or APC) which is produced at around 2% of the waste burnt. This is strongly alkaline and is used to neutralise acidic waste resulting in a neutral filter-cake material.
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