Co-processing at INSEE Hon Chong

Bruno Fux, Ecocycle and Sustainable Development Director INSEE

The 15-years environment protection journey of INSEE Ecocycle

OVER 1,000,000
TONS OF WASTE SAFELY
CO-PROCESSED

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The 15-years environment protection journey of INSEE Ecocycle

OVER 1,000,000
TONS OF GREENHOUSE GAS
EMISSIONS REDUCED

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Key to success

• Make a positive difference to environment by

bringing together like-minded (multinational) companies

Be the pioneer in sustainability with 3 core values:

CUSTOMER
INNOVATION – INTEGRITY
ORIENTED

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 Innovation to increase treatment capacity and capability
The 15-years development of INSEE Ecocycle
2015 – 2017
(47 bio VND)
- Untha shredder
- Mekong delta waste
collecting center
- New destruction area at
Cat Lai
2012 – 2013
(510 bio VND)
- Cooling tower
- Shredder building
- Kiln bag filter system 2014
(254 bio VND)
2003 – 2007 - ATS box
(27 bio VND) - Sicon belt
- Environment Monitoring Equipment - DDF modification
- Apron feeder
- Waste blending platform
2008 – 2011
(44 bio VND)
- AFR hazardous storage
- Bulk waste feeding system
- Belt conveyor systems
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ATS Box

Sicon Belt Shredder HW Storage

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Integrity
Legal compliance & transparent process

 Comply with relevant

quality, safety and the
environment regulations of
Vietnam government and
international standards.

 Certified by SEDEX in 4 essential criteria:

o Labour
o Health & Safety
o Environment
o Business ethics

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Integrity
Legal compliance & Transparent process

• Overall assessing
• Giving suggestions
• Consulting the most suitable solutions to customers

• The most advanced

• Reducing emissions equipment
• Achieving zero-landfill • Carefully analyzing to
target, enhancing brand ensure the safety of
reputation waste treatment

Minimizing direct exposure of • Real time itinerary tracking

people to the waste with GPS
 Spillage controller • Providing labels and managing
 Automatic fire detection and packaging documentation
elimination • PPEs well-equipped and skilled
 Automation feeding system supervisors, drivers and helpers
controlling
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Laboratory testing
Carefully analyzing to ensure the safety of waste treatment

Taking waste sample

Waste analyzing
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Integrity
Legal compliance & Transparent process

GPS
GPS
tracking
tracking

Customer

Cat Lai terminal

(District 2, Ho Chi Minh)

Ho Chi Minh office

(District 1, Ho Chi Minh)

Hon Chong plant Major Flow of Waste materials

(Kien Giang province)
Minor Flow of Waste materials

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Collection & transportation
Cat Lai Waste collection center to Hon Chong Plant

Checking & reinforcing packages Storage

Waste loading onto barges Shipping manifest

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Collection & transportation
Hon Chong Plant

Unloading waste Waste transporting to storages

Automatic fire extinguishing system Separate Solid & Liquid storage

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Pre-processing
Solid waste pre-processing

Mixing solid waste into batch Filtering the mixed waste

Chopping the unstandard size Standardized size

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Dosing and feeding
Automatically feeding waste into Cement kiln

Loading the batch onto truck Transporting to ATS

Sicon belt feeding to cement kilns Auto feeding

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Dosing and feeding
Automatically feed liquid waste into Cement kiln

Segment waste in liquid storage Pumping waste into Tank 16 m3

Drum cleaning– Feed the cleaning water into Kiln Automatically pump the waste into Kiln

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Co-processing
Centre Control Room (CCR) operating & controlling waste treatment in Cement Kiln

Controlling waste feeding system Co-processing waste in Cement kiln

Real-time monitoring gas emission 24/7

Complete treatment & return waste manifest

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Thanks to continuous investments, the waste treatment
capacity and capability increased over time
✓ Pirate goods for a secure
180 000
destruction
160 000 ✓ Plastic & rubber waste
140 000 ✓ Pesticides
120 000 ✓ Hydrocarbons
✓ Ash & Contaminated soils
✓
100 000
PCB
✓
80 000
Packaging
✓
60 000
Expired or off-specification
40 000
products
20 000 ✓ Waste water
0 ✓ Waste water sludge
✓
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Paint waste
Non hazardous Hazardous ✓ Solvent & other chemical
waste
✓ Textile & Synthetic
• Main challenges with plastics: materials
✓ Pharmaceutical products
relatively high moisture
✓

Biomass material
 relatively high chlorine content ✓ Used oils
✓ Other waste
=> OPTOCE to address these two issues
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Partnering with key authorities to deliver substantial project
success for difficult to treat materials

DDT Project: 2014 - 2015

870 tones of pesticide contaminated soils in Nghe An & Ha Tinh are
completely treated by Ecocycle Vietnam
A part of the “Building Capacity to Eliminate Chemical Plant Protection; POP stockpiles in Vietnam”
was what the Project Management Board POP-Pesticide (Ministry of Natural Resources and
Environment) and Chapter The UN Development in Vietnam deployed and controlled.

PCB Project: started 2011

Ecocycle Vietnam is the one and only company in Vietnam that can
sustainably treat Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) contaminated oil.
From 2011 – 2018: total 170 tons were treated

HCFC Project: 2016

Nov 2016: Ecocycle Vietnam successfully treated HCFCs – the ozone
depleting gas - at Hon Chong factory in Kien Giang, marking a major turning
point in the fight against climate change in Vietnam.

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TRAINING & CONSULTING
Industrial waste treatment by CO-PROCESSING technology
Advantages of Co-processing waste in a Cement Kiln

Feeding Points

• High & stable temperature ( up to ~ 2000 °C) • C02 emission reduction

• Long residence time (gas ~ 8 sec, solids 30min) • No Ash-Residue, all materials retained in
clinker
• Alkaline environment and self cleaning process (CaO)
• Sustainable development technology
• Large capacity (30 tons Waste/hour)
• Continuous emission real-time monitoring 24/7

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Waste Management Hierarchy

Co-processing

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Clinker Kiln

Main Burner Pre-calciner

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRJsbYGwsYg
• Please enjoy the following 3 minutes movie, it will give you
some more insights about the WHY, HOW an WHAT
Ecocycle is doing
• Pictures are more powerful than 1000 words

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Because tomorrow matters

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