• Following a successful pilot at enfinium’s Ferrybridge 2 facility in West Yorkshire, the technology is being rolled out at another site in North Wales.
• The partnership is part of enfinium’s commitment to integrating cutting-edge technology to optimise the day-to-day performance of its facilities
enfinium, a leading UK energy from waste operator, announces that it is extending its partnership with Wasteer, a German provider of cutting-edge analysis software for energy from waste plants, by installing the system at its Parc Adfer facility in Deeside, North Wales, following a successful pilot at its Ferrybridge 2 facility.
enfinium announced that it was deploying Wasteer’s visual-artificial intelligence technology at the Ferrybridge 2 facility in November 2024. Following a successful trial, enfinium is now integrating the technology into more of its facilities.
With the new system, advanced camera technology powered by AI will automatically analyse incoming waste to detect contaminants before they cause operational problems. The system can also issue real-time alerts and will record data on the waste stream. Wasteer employs a proprietary database as well as Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI.
The automation will enable enfinium to analyse its waste streams more accurately, improving plant efficiency and reliability, and maximising uptime. This approach can, for instance, reduce plant downtimes by about 30% and increase throughput by around 2%.
Chris Bebbington, Group Head of Asset Management at enfinium, said: “Digital, AI and technology enhancements are at the heart of our asset management strategy, and we are always looking for innovative ways to improve the performance of our plants. At Ferrybridge 2, we were already able to achieve promising results in the validation phase with Wasteer. It was therefore a logical step for us to extend this technology to other plants as quickly as possible.”
Benedict von Spankeren, CEO of Wasteer, said: “With our technology, we quickly deliver measurable effects. The initial effort by the pilot plant was very low: we need an internet network on-site and electricity, we take care of everything else. In the following process it’s all about learning from each other quickly and efficiently. Of course, we are particularly pleased when, as in this case, we can create trust over time that the use of our technology in other plants and over an extended period of time is worthwhile.”
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About enfinium
enfinium is a leading UK energy from waste operator with four operational sites in the UK, in West Yorkshire, Kent and Flintshire, and two in construction. enfinium diverts 2.3 million tonnes of unrecyclable waste from climate-damaging landfill, putting it to good use by turning it into home grown energy, enough to power 500,000 UK homes. enfinium’s ambition is to transform its facilities into local ‘decarbonisation hubs’ powered by the millions of tonnes of unrecyclable waste the UK will produce for decades to come. Using existing energy from waste infrastructure, enfinium could contribute to heat networks, produce electrolytic hydrogen, or use carbon capture technology to provide durable, high quality carbon removals which will be critical for the UK to achieve net zero by 2050. For more on enfinium, please visit www.enfinium.co.uk.
About Wasteer
Wasteer enables intuitive analysis and control of waste streams. We digitise waste-specific knowledge. In doing so, we provide the digital tools to not only consolidate and visualise existing knowledge about customers and waste but also to gain new insights from process data or imaging technologies. Additionally, we analyse waste using specialized camera technology and AI. We leverage existing process data from plants to obtain further waste-specific insights and provide the necessary hardware to analyse and categorize waste through camera technologies, sensors, and artificial intelligence. Based on waste-specific knowledge and the individual needs of the plants, we manage waste accordingly to reduce emissions and increase profitability. For more on Wasteer, please visit: https://www.wasteer.de/.
