Poolbeg incinerator - devaluation of surrounding areas?

slasher · **Posted:** Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:31 pm

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environ ... -1.3312015

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New Poolbeg incinerator reaches full capacity at 1,800 tonnes a day
HEA launched criminal investigation after a lime leak in June resulted in 11 workers being hospitalised

Poolbeg at capacity, naturally former IT editor Kevin O'Sullivan feels the need to focus on the issues in commisioning and a spurious claim

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Separately in July residents living near the incinerator complained about a large infestation of flies but Covanta denied it was connected to the incinerator.

rather than this

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The facility has also been designed to provide energy for district heating nearby to meet the equivalent needs of more than 50,000 homes. “The heat could be deployed as soon as the necessary piping to homes in the area has been installed. Dublin City Council is actively examining ways and means in which this might be done,” it added.

amazing that John Gormley and his pals have done nothing to capture this free energy

Skippy 3 · **Joined:** May 12, 2012 **Posts:** 2187

slasher wrote:

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The facility has also been designed to provide energy for district heating nearby to meet the equivalent needs of more than 50,000 homes. “The heat could be deployed as soon as the necessary piping to homes in the area has been installed. Dublin City Council is actively examining ways and means in which this might be done,” it added.

amazing that John Gormley and his pals have done nothing to capture this free energy

The development at the old glass bottle site should be able to make use of some of the district heating potential. But retro-fitting existing housing stock to run on the hot water is unlikely to be cost-effective.

As pointed out earlier in the thread, the nearest human habitation is 800m from the incinerator.

werpen · **Joined:** Mar 14, 2013 **Posts:** 1925

Skippy 3 wrote:

slasher wrote:

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The facility has also been designed to provide energy for district heating nearby to meet the equivalent needs of more than 50,000 homes. “The heat could be deployed as soon as the necessary piping to homes in the area has been installed. Dublin City Council is actively examining ways and means in which this might be done,” it added.

amazing that John Gormley and his pals have done nothing to capture this free energy

The development at the old glass bottle site should be able to make use of some of the district heating potential. But retro-fitting existing housing stock to run on the hot water is unlikely to be cost-effective.

As pointed out earlier in the thread, the nearest human habitation is 800m from the incinerator.

Every other European country can do it ( I assume at an economical rate). I dont think its economics, I think it political

Skippy 3 · **Joined:** May 12, 2012 **Posts:** 2187

I have read up on this. It is an engineering problem.

It is quite easy with new build.

It is very hard with existing dwellings as you would have to dig up front gardens and retrofit central heating systems to work with the district heating system.

slasher · **Posted:** Sat Dec 02, 2017 1:28 pm

Skippy 3 wrote:

I have read up on this. It is an engineering problem.

It is quite easy with new build.

It is very hard with existing dwellings as you would have to dig up front gardens and retrofit central heating systems to work with the district heating system.

I'm sure you're right. My point is more that instead of fighting the inevitable tooth and nail for years they could have accepted and planned for it.

Skippy 3 · **Joined:** May 12, 2012 **Posts:** 2187

slasher wrote:

I'm sure you're right. My point is more that instead of fighting the inevitable tooth and nail for years they could have accepted and planned for it.

The whole thing was delayed by over a decade of planning and regulatory messing. This included a two-year periodwhen the Minister for Environment sat on an application by DCC for a foreshore licence.

You can see why people building houses didn't bank on the district heating ever happening.....

Coles2 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 03, 2017 4:23 pm

The Poolbeg Plume Plotter

http://plumeplotter.com/poolbeg/

AWAAF · **Posted:** Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:23 pm

Coles2 wrote:

The Poolbeg Plume Plotter

http://plumeplotter.com/poolbeg/

All seems to in order there or am I missing something?

dolanbaker · **Posted:** Sun Dec 03, 2017 6:56 pm

It used Modelling rather than actual data

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http://plumeplotter.com/poolbeg/about.html
Plume Plotter predicts this fallout using AERMOD, which is one of the most widely used modelling systems for air pollution. It uses the latest local weather conditions and upper air data, which are obtained in real time. Plume Plotter does not use real-time information about the incinerator's emissions. Instead, it assumes that the incinerator is operating continuously (8760 hours per year) and emitting pollutants at a constant rate. The emission rates assumed are the long-term emission rates that were specified by the incinerator developers in their planning application. The other parameters (e.g. emission velocity and temperature) used are also taken directly from the planning application

Coles2 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 03, 2017 7:11 pm

Unfortunately Covanta have no intention of releasing meaningful data on the plume emissions. The plume plotter just shows where those unknown emissions are right now.

http://www.thejournal.ie/poolbeg-incine ... 7-Jun2017/

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