Sri Lanka has embarked on a transformative journey in sustainable waste management by developing a 40 MW plasma gasification plant. This state-of-the-art facility is designed to process 1,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste daily, converting waste into renewable energy and setting a benchmark for regional waste-to-energy solutions.

Malaysian waste-to-energy company Octagon Consolidated Bhd has started building a US$248 million plasma gasification facility in Sri Lanka.

According to a report in the country’s Sunday Observer, Malaysian waste-to-energy company Octagon Consolidated Bhd (“OCB”) has started to build a US$248 million plasma gasification facility in Sri Lanka. The 1000-tonne-per-day facility will use gasification technology to treat locally collected municipal solid waste and generate a minimum of 40 MW of electricity, which will be sold to the Ceylon Electricity Board.

The company licenses its Advanced Thermal Gasification Process technology from Green Energy and Technology Sdn. Bhd. The company says the plasma torch technology can produce very high temperatures, 10,000 degrees Celsius within the plasma torch and 8000 degrees Celsius at the visible plasma gas tip. The temperature profile in the gasifier is sustained by using thermal energy from the plasma gas, which in turn breaks down the molecular compounds in a very short period, often milliseconds.

OCB states that this avoids forming secondary combustion products and producing polluting flue gas. According to the report, Octagon says construction will start in Colombo in the second quarter of next year and be completed by the second quarter of 2014.

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