The Colombo South Waste Processing Facility (also referred to as the Karadiyana W2E Project or Karadiyana Power Station) is a municipal solid waste-fired thermal power station currently under construction at a site in Karadiyana,

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. Together with the

KCHT Power Station The KCHT Power Station is a municipal solid waste-fired thermal power station currently under construction at Muthurajawela in Sri Lanka. It is being constructed together with the Aitken Spence Power Station, after it won the bid by the Urban ...

, it is one of two projects that won the bid by the Urban Development Authority, from a pool of 121 bidders. Construction of the facility began on 23 August 2017 with a completion slated for mid-2019. The estimated cost of the project is approximately . The power station will be operated by , a subsidiary of the . It will use of waste, with the generated power sold to the state-owned Ceylon Electricity Board at a rate of generated. The residual

bottom ash Bottom ash is part of the non-combustible residue of combustion in a power plant, boiler, furnace or incinerator. In an industrial context, it has traditionally referred to coal combustion and comprises traces of combustibles embedded in formin ...

from the process will be used for road construction and other uses, while the unusable

fly ash Fly ash, flue ash, coal ash, or pulverised fuel ash (in the UK) plurale tantum: coal combustion residuals (CCRs)is a coal combustion product that is composed of the particulates (fine particles of burned fuel) that are driven out of coal-fired ...

(amounting to 2%) will be disposed of at predesignated locations.

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