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Ekka · 15th February 2008, 08:59 PM

It's called Rocky Point Sean not Jacobs Well, sorry.

But it's near there.

Here's the google links you need to check.

Rocky Point Mill and Co-generation Plant - Google Search

And from this link: http://www.csiro.au/files/files/pgce.pdf

Quote:

There are two value added processes that occur at the Rocky Point Mill. The first being the production
of ethanol and the second being the co-generation plant. The Rocky Point Mill can use sugar cane and
sorghum to produce ethanol. Ethanol produced by the Mill will become more feasible commencing
July 2008, with the upgrade of the mill and installation of appropriate capital equipment. Ethanol
provides an opportunity to put a base level price for cane particularly when sugar market prices are
below cost of production. A significant challenge for the use of cane for ethanol production will be the
disposal of dunder, without this the production of ethanol is not feasible for the Mill.
The Cogeneration plant at the Mill is owned and operated by Babcock and Brown and is a ?Green
Power? accredited generator. The plant generates 30MW of green energy using 30 to 35 tonne/hour
of green and woody waste (depending on the moisture content). When using the processed cane (40
t/h bagasse) and some waste (10 t/h) it generates 20MW of green energy and 70 tonnes of steam/hr
which is used to power the Rocky Point Mill and Distillery. Additionally it produces purified water by
using reverse Osmosis treatment of STP effluent.
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The Rocky Point Green Power plant has a broad aim to be a ?sustainable practice organisation? and
it achieves this through two approaches. Firstly, all inputs to Rocky Point Green Power are relatively
low quality secondary resources (eg. wastes) whilst almost 100% of the outputs are value-added byproducts
from lower grade secondary resource inputs (outputs include electricity to the grid, steam
to Rocky Point Mill and Distillery and purified water). Purified water is available as a value-added
by-product on-site. Secondly, it has endeavoured to have strong local community links through colocation
of the plant with compatible facilities (i.e. inputs from the Mill and outputs used at the Mill
and Distillery). This can be further enhanced with the potential of downstream facilities to co-locate
with existing facilities (for example light manufacturing) or for all the outputs of the Plant to be used
locally, eg. water could be used by the aquaculture industry or other crops that require higher grade
water than currently available.
The Plant was built to operate for 20 years (from 2001 to 2020). Current feedstock investigations have
shown that this is still an accurate time horizon. Importantly, at present 30% of feedstock is from the
Mill (Bagasse) if this product was not available it would require the Energy plant to source extra green
and woody wastes from the surrounding local councils, which it believes is possible