Attachment 3B - Process Design Strategy - OREZ · 132005.638.06

PR25001 Noosa Composting Facility
Process Design Strategy




2.       Process Description
An indicative general arrangement of the facility has been included in Appendix D; it should
be viewed in conjunction with this Process Description section.


2.1.     Vehicle Movements
Waste Receivals (Deliveries)

Public (self-haul) and commercial waste deliveries will be managed via two different weigh
bridges to efficiently manage the traffic movements onsite and minimise interactions. Loads
will be weighed with the relevant vehicle type directed to their specific unloading zone.

Public (self-haul) customers will enter and exit via the northern weigh bridge. They will drop
green organic waste at the western side of the facility. A road located off the main arterial
facility road will be used for queuing, reducing burden on the atrial route.

Commercial customers will enter from the southern weighbridge and exist via the northern
weigh bridge. They will drop green organics waste at the southern green organic waste
bunker, additionally they will drop source separated food waste directly into the covered
food waste receival hopper, which incorporates air ducting to the odour management
system. Where a source has not yet been vetted, the delivery is instead directed to the
adjacent push wall bay, enabling quality checks to be completed prior to the material being
loaded into the hopper.

Compost & Oversize Material Dispatch

Compost and oversize material dispatch vehicles will enter the site from the southern
weighbridge and exit via the northern weighbridge. Material will be dispatched via a
dedicated maturation loading zone where trucks will drive forwards into the covered
building and will be loaded perpendicular by a front-end loader.

Air Management System

A dedicated acid unloading zone for sulfuric acid deliveries to the scrubber will be spatially
allowed for, but an acid system is not deemed necessary for the odour produced from the
basis of design feedstock blend. The same zone will be used for the collection and dispatch
of the ammonium sulphate generated if the scrubber doses acid in the future.

Although biofilter media replacement is infrequent, the biofilter has been positioned to allow
efficient media replacement while minimising obstruction of the facility's arterial road.




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