Woodlawn Bioreactor

 

Maunsell created history by working as part of the Alliance to deliver a state-of-the-art waste management system in New South Wales — a first in Australian Waste Management history.

 

Maunsell was part of an Alliance team for the design, planning, and operation of the Woodlawn Bioreactor Facility. The Bioreactor Project is a purpose built waste management system designed to enable the segregation of wastes for resource recovery and facilitate the accelerated decomposition of the residual putrescible waste to maximise the capture of biogas for conversion into green electricity.

 

The waste management system comprises three facilities:

• The Clyde Resource Recovery and Transfer Station, west of the Sydney CBD
• Crisp’s Creek Intermodal Terminal, south of Goulbourn and west of Tarago, and
• The Woodlawn Bioreactor, located in a disused 25 million cubic metre open cut mine.

 

The Bioreactor processes approximately 6,000 tonnes of Sydney’s waste each week, equating to 300,000 tonnes per year.

 

Works included the preparation of concept designs, conduction of Environmental Impact Studies (EIS) and the liaison with Government Agencies and other key stakeholders to obtain approvals.

                                                                                                                       

Significant engineering aspects included:

• Advanced health, safety and social measures in a world’s best-practice system,
• Fully integrated design to minimise impact on local residents and other industries,
• Purpose built residual waste containers and waste transfer systems,
• Efficient transfer infrastructure to facilitate rail to road transport,
• Civil-environmental design and stormwater management within the mine void.

 

Maunsell is proud to be associated with an environmentally and socially conscious project which has a high level of local community support.