Helping Expand a Hazardous Waste Incineration Plant Facility in Nebraska
Nebraska
Project Description
Customer Challenge
We’re working with a leading provider of environmental and industrial services to tackle the expansion of its Nebraska facility by duplicating its expanded Arkansas facility. The project will reconfigure the facility to incorporate the use of rotary kiln incineration technology to provide for the destruction of hazardous waste. Under the contract, HGA will ensure that the equipment purchased for Nebraska matches the state-of-the-art specifications and process conditions from Arkansas. The client’s main objective is to decentralize the incineration points throughout the United States to reduce shipping costs and turnaround time in the transportation, collection, and destruction of hazardous waste. This aligns with the client’s strategy to allow for faster, cheaper, more reliable, and sustainable operations.
Our Solution
We’re providing the overall design and engineering for the expansion of a hazardous waste incineration plant facility. Throughout this phase of the project, our team found that design changes were required to address the region’s harsh winter weather. In Nebraska, plant winterization programs provide a necessary level of protection to equipment that might otherwise fail due to the extremes of Nebraska’s winter temperatures. We’ve also undertaken the engineering design and procurement of the various handling and feed systems, and provided an onsite construction manager, to ensure the engineering aspects associated with the winter environment are incorporated.
Value Delivered
During the design phase, we helped the client explore manufacturing approaches to operate in the event of extreme cold weather. These innovations will contribute to the state-of-the-art thermal oxidation unit (TOU) is capable of maximum destruction efficiencies of hazardous waste and can handle an extremely wide variety of feeds and operate in Nebraska’s harsh winter conditions. The Nebraska facility is the only incinerator in the industry that can delist its ash. Once built, we expect the incinerator facility to save money on hazardous waste hauling and is better for the environment than landfills.