Waste treatment system to generate power

Seiji Murata, chair of Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation (NEDO) and Nguyen Van Khoi, deputy chair of the Hanoi People’s Committee inked an agreement to build a waste treatment system to generate power in Nam Son district in Hanoi on October 14.

The long term aimed work will help improve environment, reduce dangers coming from industrial waste.

Covering an area of one hectare in the regional waste treatment complex, the project will have an incinerator with a capacity of 75 tonnes of waste per day and generate 1.2 MW of electricity.

The work has total cost of 473.645 trillion dong or 21 million US dollar, of which 17 million dollars was contributed by Japan and the rest by Vietnam’s state-owned Urban Environment Company (URENCO).

With advanced Japanese technology for the first time, the project will be carried out from 2011-2012, contributing to environmental protection and sustainable development in Vietnam. – TBKTVN

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Posted by VBN on Oct 18 2010. Filed under Infrastructure. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry