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3,0 Worldwide Experience mf Waste Processing <br />Technologies and Vendors <br />Avahety ofVVPTare discussed in Appendix B and a summary matrix is in Appendix <br />A, Table Ar2' This section discusses the past and current experience ofVVPT in the <br />U.S. and elsewhere. <br />3,1 Surn/WateKwall Combustion <br />No new mass-burn NTE facilities have been built inthe United States for the past ten <br />years, although there have been acquisitions and ownership and operator changes at <br />certain existing facilities, as well as some plant expansions. As a result, the firms <br />associated with mass-burn VVTE are operators, owners, or owner/operators of <br />exisUng �ci|ities. As shown in the Table 3-1, Covanta and VVheu|abratorown and <br />�- <br />operate the majority of privately-owned VTE facilities. Most of the VTE plants, both <br />public and private, are operated by Covanta, Monhenay/Veo|ia or VVhee|abnator. <br />Table 3-1 also shows the range in tons processed per day between facility owners <br />and operators, with publicly operated facilities processing smaller amounts of waste <br />than those operated privately. <br />Table 3-1. 0U.S. Mass-88urn/WaterwaUU FaciUitieSs <br />Entity <br />Owned <br />Tons processed <br />per day <br />Operated <br />Tons processed <br />per day <br />ublic <br />39 <br />260-3,000 <br />12 <br />200-500 <br />Covanta <br />11 <br />400-3,000 <br />27 <br />400-3,000 <br />Wheelabrator <br />10 <br />200-2,250 <br />16 <br />200-2,250 <br />Other <br />3 <br />550-2,250 <br />1 <br />200-1,3 <br />Total <br />65_ <br />65 <br />Some of the mass-burn technology hadbeenpurohasedfromArnehcanfinnssuchas <br />Detroit Stoker, Combustion Engineering and Babcock &Wilcox, but the majority of <br />these existing systems s ara of European design. The two leading suppliers ofVVTE <br />grate systems <br />in the United States and overseas are The Martin Company of <br />Germany and Von Roll of Switzerland. <br />While new WTEfad|it' procurements have declined in the United States, the market <br />for this equipment has increased in Europa and in Eastern Asia, with European and <br />Japanese systems suppliers actively marketing their systems, and consistently <br />improving their performance. <br />This technology is well tested and is used more than <br />any other for large VVTE facilities in the United States and overseas. <br />� <br />Modular �-'--� used sna U er NTEfaciihjas (between 80 - 360 TPD) <br />and for <br />industrial ' applications. Unlike mass burn/vatemvaU systems, there are a number of <br />American firms supplying such systems in the United States, and they are very <br />competitive in overseas markets as vvaU. The more active of these suppliers are <br />Consutech Systems of Richmond, Virginia, Enercon Systems, Inc. of Elyria, Ohio, and <br />»IntegratadVVasteManagamantSenvicesAssociadon,2OO4DinsctoryofVVTEPlanta <br />GBB/CO8027-01 5 August 15, 2008 <br />