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Waste to Biogas Energy Plant

Part 2 Project 2009
Eduardo Ruz Vargas
 University of Chile | Chile
Waste to Biogas Energy Plant

The waste managing in the cities always has been a problem with a difficult solution, given the deeply negative connotation that exists on the garbage. The current proposals limit themselves to hiding simply from the common citizen the waste externalities, failing to take advantage of its potential of being re-used and returning to the beginning in the productive chain.

One of the most innovative ways of taking advantage of the domiciliary residues is to turn them into energy of biogas, a clean, efficient system and of low cost. With a plant capable of separating the organic fraction of the residues and to sue her, it is possible to produce sufficient energy to supply the populations affected by the surrounding areas of a landfill. This offers a solution not only to whom they produce the residues, but also to whom they them receive, away from the cities.



Eduardo Ruz´s project involves a main current problem in large cities: waste managment. The demand for space to deposit waste in Santiago is increased by accelerated city growth.
The Proposal transforms a problem into a source of non conventional renawable energy. As we can see this goal is accomplished by a high quality design piece.
Eduardo´s complex explores the real possibilities about transforming a very damaged area located inside metropolitan region by means of a strong intervention of a beautiful scoped building whose volumes dialogues with surrounding landscape.

Tutor(s)
2009
The garbage in the Metropolitan Region of Chile is a social and environmental problem at the same time. The sanitary landfills require a coherent organization related with the geography This is reflected in that the polluting communities don´t become resp
The world in which we live has changed radically in the last 200 years. We have control over the natural resources in a systematic and aggressive form that to a little time to begin the industrial revolution, we have acquired conscience of the limits of t
To adapt this new paradigm, of a world of finite resources where our role as regulatory actors is decisive; it becomes necessary to change the form that we use the resources. The model of linear consumption, where the goods that we acquire turn later into
Location The biggest sanitary landfills in the metropolitan region is Loma Los Colorados, which it receives 58,75 % of the solid domiciliary wastes, the equivalent one to the garbage produced by 3 million people. All this garbage accumulates in the surro
The area of receipt is the place where the garbage containers are deposited from the train vagon to the plant, by means of a system of derricks, and hoists, to empty them in a pit from which the residues begin its internal tour towards the recycling. The
Morphological Studies of Til-Til's territory were realized with the aim to establish a formal language capable to synthesize the landscape and how this one can give content to a project with a clear industial character as a conversion plant of residues t
From these alternative lines there is generated a mantle, a cover which intention is to generate the spaces for the different parts of the industrial process and to synthesize them in an unitary way. This reintepretation of the landscape takes form finall
Stuctural Idea based in the surface lineal concept
The traffic areas for the workers are inserted in the structure, with the aim to provide safety and isolation of machineries that can turn out to be dangerous. Or even, to use as route of immediate escape in case of fires. In addition, its situation of he
The area of receipt is the place where the garbage containers are deposited from the train vagon to the plant, by means of a system of derricks, and hoists, to empty them in a pit from which the residues begin its internal tour towards the recycling. The
The zone of compost is the end of the tour of the garbage, where the organic part is dehydrated and compacted in sealed tunnels where it transforms in compost. A system of presurized load fills empty containers with compost and recycled materials that the
The maintenance zone is a great warehouse where the containers that the train leaves are stored and cleaned to go on to the section of filling in the tunnels of compostaje. A system of rails uses sliders that allows the containers to move and to carry out
The Project Components
Perspective Sections of the plant with all its components assembled, where it is possible to estimate in different scales of detail its internal spaces and how it is taken advantage by the processing units and the elevated ways. Also it is possible to obs
Landscape view from the Panamerican Highway
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