Sustainability

Waste Management

Asymchem contract Wastecare, who operate on the same site, to manage the majority of the waste produced from the laboratories and Pilot Plant.

Energy Recovery

When the waste is incinerated the gasses pass through the system and boils the cooling water which converts it into steam.

The steam from the process goes through an energy recovery system which produces electricity.

It is known as an expander, which is a twin screw turbine.

The percentage of the waste that is converted to energy is not 100% because there is some loss of the materials that pass through as IBA (incinerator bottom ash).

The solvents are used as “fuel” in the incinerator to replace raw materials such as gas and therefore are 100% “recycled”.

Waste Portal

Sustainable Energy

Powering Discovery Park

• Asymchem utilise the onsite renewable biomass combined heat and power plant which provides renewable heat and electricity to Discovery Park, one of Europe’s leading Science and Technology parks, near Sandwich in Kent.
• All the energy that is generated which onsite companies don’t use is then sent to the local electricity grid to power homes across the region

Sustainability

• The biomass plant promotes active carbon balancing across the region by promoting the use of coppiced woodland techniques through their suppliers woodland management plans. These plans also enable older trees to be replaced with more newly planted younger trees which remove more CO2 from the atmosphere, once again creating active carbon balancing.