Energy From Waste Technology

As we move through this decade more and more energy from waste plants and equipment are being commissioned making use of the additional economic value resulting from the introduction of carbon pollution reduction and Renewable Energy Schemes.

The basic technology is not a new one. Waste processing plants incorporating Pyrolysis and Gasification have been in operation for many years. In a tightly managed process waste feedstocks are reduced to a useful medium energy gas fuel (Syngas) and a waste slag. Where the process incorporates melting the modified slag is inert. Energy to drive the process comes from an electricity generator set powered by the Syngas created in the process.

W₂E Reactor Pod

The CarbOn20 W₂E Reactor Pod is one that has its roots in a recognised world leader after 20 years of development. This proven science has turned to include smaller modularised versions capable of supporting the needs of many markets.

In the process of coversion one tonne of municipal solid waste (MSW) nets about 0.72 MW of electricity (accounting for a 10-20% parasitic losses in the system). Excess gas can be used directly to to provide power to the electricity grid, tanked off for sale as a chemical feedstock or converted to diesel in a Fischer-Tropsch process.

The W₂E Reactor Pod has a capacity of upto 2 tonne/hour and heat for the process is provided by steam.

W₂E Plant

The fixed W₂E processing plant is capable of processing all feedstock types in volumes of over 4 tonne/hour. and incorporates melting of the residue to the point of vitrification, where the heat for the process is provided by Plasma Torches.

The PGM thermal treatment technology originated in a process for the treatment of Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (LILRW), designed and developed some twenty years ago at the presrigeous RRC - Kurchatov Institute and implemented for a number of years in SIA - Radon in Russia.

The continuos process combines complete waste elimination, energy recovery and formation of non-leaching inert residues. It is a technology is superior to incineration in most environmental aspects as well as in capital and operating costs.