Cogeneration Facility for the Titanium Dioxide Pigment Plant

Summary

Built in 1999, a cogeneration facility (40 MWh), owned by the State’s energy company Western Power, provides superheated steam for the process needs at the Tiwest Pigment Plant. Tiwest has the ability to “island”, taking electricity directly from the cogeneration plant. For the majority of the time, however, the cogeneration plant feeds the grid with Tiwest drawing power from the grid.

Industry

Industry Sector	Specific Industry
energy utility sector	cogeneration plant
mining and minerals sector	titanium dioxide pigment plant

Region

Kwinana Industrial Area, Kwinana, Western Australia

Applied Technologies

• combined heat and power

Triple Bottom Line Aspects (direct at operational level)

Economic	savings in capital and operational costs for pigment plant reliable source of electricity and steam for pigment plant sales of electricity and steam from cogeneration plant
Environmental	avoided impacts (energy efficiency with associated reduction of greenhouse gases)
Social	employment

Additional Comments

None.

References

• van Beers, D, Bossilkov, A and van Berkel, R (2005) “Capturing Regional Synergies in the Kwinana Industrial Area – 2005 Status Report”, CSRP Report (for Project 3B1), August 2005

Last Update

31 October 2005