China's Smart City ⑥丨Chongqing

With daily waste recycled, flying ash solidified, slag burnt into bricks, and heat generated into electric power, the intelligent waste-to-energy (WTE) scenarios of Chongqing Sanfeng Covanta Environmental Industry Co., Ltd (Sanfeng Covanta) are contributing to a greener China and a greener world.

Investing in 51 projects with a daily capacity of 56,000 tons, Sanfeng Covanta is a pioneer in China’s WTE industry. “We specialize in engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracting, equipment manufacturing, and operation management services for WTE projects,” introduced Kevin Lu, deputy director of overseas business of Sanfeng Covanta, during the exclusive interview with iChongqing on August 4.

According to Lu, waste-to-energy refers to that after high-temperature combustion treatment of municipal solid waste, the waste heat generated is used for power generation, and the flue gas and ash generated are treated harmlessly to realize the harmlessness, reduction, and recycling treatment of domestic waste.

“Every people will produce municipal solid waste during their daily life. But maybe they never think about the treatment for those waste,” said Lu. “Actually, the waste will be connected from every household to a transfer center, then go into the WTE facilities in plants for treatment.”

In 2002, Sanfeng built the Chongqing Tongxing WTE plant in build-operate-transfer (BOT) mode, becoming China’s first localized WTE demonstration project. In 2007, Sanfeng invested 100 million yuan (about 14.8 million U.S. dollars) to build the world’s leading domestic waste incinerator assembly base.

Lu witnessed that Chongqing continues to increase investment in environmental protection and promote green development over the past decade. 15 WTE plants have been built successively with a daily treatment capacity of about 19,000 tons, realizing 100% reduction, recycling, and harmless disposal of municipal waste.

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