Covanta WBH, LLC
Tulsa, Oklahoma

The Walter B. Hall Resource Recovery Facility, Covanta Energy's first Energy-from-Waste (EfW) project, began commercial operation in October 1986 with two units. A third unit was added in October 1987 to meet growing demands of the residents and businesses in the Tulsa area. With three units, the facility processes 1,125 tons per day of solid waste, generating up to 240,000 pounds per hour of steam. The steam can be used to power a turbine generator to produce 16.8 megawatts of clean, renewable energy that is sold to Public Service Company of Oklahoma. However, on a more regular basis, the steam is sold to Sunoco, Inc., adjacent to the facility, and used in the refining process. This offsets the need for the refinery to use fossil fuels to generate their own steam.