Tour Pinellas County Waste to Energy Facility

Sponsors: PES-IAS Chapter -FWCS
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2012
Time: 3:00PM to 5:00PM  (meet at 2:45PM Administration Bldg.)
Location: 3095 114^th Ave N, St Petersburg Florida 33716
Map & Directions
Cost: Free for IEEE Members, $20 Non-Members
RSVP Online at: http://time2meet.com/fwcs-pes2/index.html (select Reservations)
Space limited to the first 20 registrants!!!
Questions: Claude Pitts ar 727.418.5272 or claude.pitts@ieee.org

Special Requirements: must wear long pants, long sleeves and closed toe shoes.  You will be provided with safety gear such as eye protection and hardhats prior to your tour of the WTE facility.

Come join your PE/IA Chapter for an educational Tour of the Pinellas County Waste to Energy Facility, St. Petersburg Florida.  This is a walking tour of an active facility and participants MUST wear long pants, long sleeves and closed toe shoes.  You will be provided with safety gear such as eye protection and hardhats prior to your tour of the WTE facility.  Be advised that you will get dusty/dirty during this tour and you will need to dress accordingly.

This site tour will take approximately two (2) hours and will include the landfill, recycling operations and the WTE power generation facility.  The group will meet at the Administration Building at 2:45 PM for the tour. 

The Waste-to-Energy (WTE) facility has the capacity to burn 3,150 tons of garbage every day and processes about one million tons of garbage every year. The process can produce up to 75 megawatts (MW) per hour of electricity making some of which is sold to Progress Energy to power approximately 45,000 homes and businesses every day. The WTE facility uses state-of-the-art air pollution control technology ensuring the plant’s emissions fall within the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) standards.

Ash generated from the combustion of solid waste is transferred to the adjacent Residue Storage and Processing Building. Here, the ash is size-separated using screens, and both ferrous (steel) and non-ferrous (aluminum) metals are recovered from the ash using mechanical equipment such as magnets and eddy currents. The recovered metals are sold to steel mills and smelters for recycling, and the remaining ash is used for landfill cover and interior site berms and roadways.