Renewable Energy

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Plans for a 2,000 – 3,000 tonne per day waste to energy facility in Dubai that were unsuccessfully tendered three times have now reportedly been cancelled.

Financing issues and a project scope that was “too open” were said to be the challenges halting the project for the Dubai Muncipality, according to a report by Middle East Business Intelligence (MEED).

Two bids were submitted in November of last year with Japan’s Hitachi Lenovo touted as favourite. A proposal was put forward for three incinerators constructed at Al-Warsan, each with a 50MW capacity under a 20-year contract.

MEED quoted sources as saying that the municipality was keen to accept the power price of 26 fils a kilowatt hour, but not the proposed gate fee.

Abdulmajeed Abdulaziz Saifaie, the director of Dubai Municipality’s Waste Management Department reportedly said that Dubai is completing its waste management masterplan for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) emirate until 2030.

Earlier this year the UAE brought forward its policy to ban all disposal plastic products except those made from oxo-biodegradable plastic (see Waste Management World story).

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Waste to Energy plans extinguished in Dubai

Plans for a 2,000 – 3,000 tonne per day waste to energy facility in Dubai that were unsuccessfully tendered three times have now reportedly been cancelled.

Financing issues and a project scope that was “too open” were said to be the challenges halting the project for the Dubai Municipality, according to a report by Middle East Business Intelligence (MEED).

Two bids were submitted in November of last year with Japan’s Hitachi Lenovo touted as favourite. A proposal was put forward for three incinerators constructed at Al-Warsan, each with a 50MW capacity under a 20-year contract.

MEED quoted sources as saying that the municipality was keen to accept the power price of 26 fils a kilowatt hour, but not the proposed gate fee.

Abdulmajeed Abdulaziz Saifaie, the director of Dubai Municipality’s Waste Management Department reportedly said that Dubai is completing its waste management masterplan for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) emirate until 2030.

Earlier this year the UAE brought forward its policy to ban all disposal plastic products except those made from oxo-biodegradable plastic(see Waste Management World story).

Bloomberg News

By Louise Downing on May 23, 2012

Advanced Plasma Power Ltd., a U.K. waste-to-energy technology maker, plans to hire a financial adviser to help raise money for 400 million pounds ($629 million) of planned projects to turn trash into power.

The company has been speaking to investment banks and specialist firms and has selected the “frontrunners,” Rolf Stein, chief executive officer of London-based Advanced Plasma, said by phone.

“We already have some funding commitments in place and we are about to go very actively into the market,” Stein said. “We will appoint the adviser as soon as we have certainty on the outcome of the U.K. Renewable Obligation banding review.”

The U.K. is examining the level of support it gives to different renewable energy technologies under a banding review. Confirmation of the new support levels, which will come into effect next April, are expected within weeks.

The U.K.’s goal is to get at least 15 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, a sevenfold jump from 2008. Bioenergy facilities such as Advanced Plasma’s have the potential to provide as much as 30 percent of this target, according to the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Advanced Plasma is planning to build as many as 10 projects across Britain that use waste from homes and businesses to generate electricity and heat. They are expected to have a total capacity of 160 megawatts.

The adviser will likely work with the company on its entire project portfolio, the CEO said. They may need as much as 400 million pounds and the financial close of the first facility is expected by the end of the year or early 2013.

The waste-to-energy developer has seen a “very sharp” increase in interest and demand for its technology from regions including North America, Asia and Africa, it said. It’s proceeding with a project in Africa that it’s looking to develop with another U.K. business specializing in the area, Stein said, declining to disclose further details.

To contact the reporter responsible for this story: Louise Downing in London at Ldowning4@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Reed Landberg in London at landberg@bloomberg.net

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AGARTALA: Agartala-based Association for Research on People and Nature (Arpan) has planned to set up a plasma gasification plant in the city to manage the growing solid waste here. The organization has also trained as many as 30 female entrepreneurs on manufacturing carry bags with waste paper and cloth.

Arpan vice president D Daschoudhury on Wednesday said the Agartala Municipal Council (AMC) had been facing problems in dumping solid wastes and recycling non-degradable desecrates generated by city dwellers. “AMC does not have trained manpower and proper infrastructure for solid waste management. But, they are spending about Rs 70 lakh every month in cleaning, sweeping and dumping the waste into the ground and this is a major concern for us,” Daschoudhury said. Plasma gasification is a technology to convert solid waste into energy at medium-scale investment. This technology is successfully running in Bangalore, Nagpur and Chennai.

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30 May 2012

Montreal based plasma gasification technology developer, PyroGenesis Canada (TSXV: PYR) has received the Association pour ledeveloppement de la recherche et de l’innovation du Quebec’s (ADRIQ) 2012 Coup de C?ur award for Partnership and Innovation, for its integrated waste management plan for the of Iles-de-la-Madeleine group of islands.

Each year the ADRIQ honours technological collaborations between Quebec researchers, entrepreneurs and their partners with the intent of encouraging the creation of new partnerships which will lead to innovative commercial achievements.

The company said that the project was geared towards finding a solution to waste management challenges facing the municipality.

According to Joel Arseneau, mayor of the municipality of Iles-de-la-Madeleine, waste management is a major challenge in the archipelago.

The goal of the award winning project was to evaluate the potential for developing and implementing two coupled state of the art waste management technologies, namely PyroGenesis’ Plasma Resource Recovery System (PRRS) and a bio-methanization process.

Pyrogenesis said that the technology that it is providing combines the plasma gasification and vitrification which is able to convert unsorted waste into energy and usable by-products.

The main objective of process is to convert nearly all of the processed waste into heat, electricity and a slag that can be used as a construction material.

“This is a unique opportunity to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of pairing these technologies for remote communities such as Iles-de-la-Madeleine,” explained Pierre Carabin, PyroGenesis’ chief engineer.

According to Arezki Tagnit-Amou a Civil engineering professor at Universite de Sherbrooke, the project is also exploring the use of slag as acimentious substitute in the production of concrete or granular material for road construction.”

The company added that the project has benefited from the system that it commissioned at the Hurlburt Field Air Force Base in Florida by carrying out additional certified emissions testing and to procure its partners with vitrified rock for advanced material testing at Universite deSherbrooke. (See WMW Story)

“PyroGenesis intends to demonstrate the advantages of this integrated waste management solution, which will enable isolated communities to manage their waste in a responsible, economic, and sustainable manner,” concluded Gillian Holcroft, PyroGenesis’ chief operating officer.

$45 Million Funding Railway Waste Gasification Developer
Alberta Canada based based Green Energy Solution Industries is now finalising the provision of up to $45 million dollars to fund its waste to energy project in Alberta.

Proposed Plasma Gasification & Waste Incineration Facility in Perth
Phoenix Energy Australia, is to work with Australian engineering contractor, John Holland to develop a AU$400 million plasma gasification and mass burn waste to energy facility near Perth.

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Proposed plasma gasification & waste incineration facility in Perth

Waste to energy specialist, Phoenix Energy Australia, is to work with Australian engineering contractor, John Holland – a wholly owned subsidiary of Leighton Holdings Limited – to develop a AU$400 million ($389 million) waste to energyfacility near Perth.

The project is set to combine both mass burn waste incineration technology and plasma arc waste gasification.

According to a report by Perthnow the facility will have a total output of some 80 MW.

Earlier reports have suggested that the plant will use Westinghouse Plasma technology to gasify around 100,000 tonnes of industrial waste, with the syngas being utilised to co-fire municipal solid waste and construction and industrial waste in a conventional mass burn incinerator.

The proposed plant would use Martin grate technology, for which Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHVYF) holds the license for the Asia Pacific region.

Phoenix Energy said that the facility, to be located in the Kwinana Industrial Area in Western Australia, will be used to recover energy from municipal waste.

According to Peter Dyson Phoenix Energy Australia’s managing director the project is now moving into the detailed engineering and formal approvals stage.

“Therefore the inclusion of a credible engineering, procurement and construction partner was a logical next step as early integration of the technology providers, designers and construction team will enable a smoother delivery of the project,” explained Dyson.

The company claimed that the proposed facility could reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill by 90 per cent.

John Holland is also currently working in a joint venture to deliver the Hong Kong Sludge Treatment Facility, a 2000 wet tonnes per day waste treatment plant generating its own energy and to be completed in 2013

News

Hatch to deliver concept level study for alternative energy solutions in Western Australia

March 21, 2011

Hatch has been engaged by Moltoni Energy to perform a FEL1 study for a Waste to Energy Facility in Kwinana, Western Australia. Kwinana is located south of Perth on the Indian Ocean.

The client requires a concept level study to complete the engineering of the facility in a structured, low risk method. The goal is to convert a variety of waste streams into saleable energy. The project will involve the unique combination of a ‘Martin Grate’ mass combustion furnace and in parallel a plasma gasification unit both of which create useable energy from renewable feedstocks like waste and biomass.

MartinGMBH is based in Germany and has the major market share of the mass combustion, waste to energy plants globally through its proprietary grate technology. In the Australian region, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environment and Chemical Ltd, based out of Japan, hold the license for the Martin Grate technology. Hatch has already worked with MHI on a number of projects and this was seen as an added advantage.

Alter NRG is a public alternative energy company, located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They provide clean energy solutions that are economically viable and environmentally sustainable through two methods; plasma gasification and geo-exchange.

Hatch offices in Brisbane and Perth are participating in the project, scheduled to begin facility construction in 2012.

Project will deliver an end-to-end process for converting waste to Bio-SNG, using Gasplasma® technologyThe first project that demonstrates the use of waste to produce bio-substitute natural gas (Bio-SNG) hastoday been announced by National Grid, Advanced Plasma Power and Progressive Energy.The project, which uses waste as a feedstock to produce Bio-SNG, will be based at the Advanced PlasmaPower Gasplasma® facility in Swindon, UK. It will demonstrate the technical feasibility and commercialviability of the waste to Bio-SNG process. The three partners will work together to design, install and test theoperation of a demonstration plant.The plant will take the waste-derived and energy rich synthesis gas from the existing Gasplasma® process,and convert it to meet the specification for injecting it into the gas network. Bio-SNG could play a crucial rolein the decarbonisation of heating and help reach the UK’s binding carbon reduction targets. As part of itswork on future energy scenarios, National Grid has forecast that renewable gas could be a vital part of theenergy mix in the coming decades.Marcus Stewart, Future Distribution Networks Manager, National Grid said, “This project is a greatopportunity to look at the potential of Bio-SNG from both a technical and commercial perspective. Theproject underlines our commitment to seeking economic and innovative ways to decarbonise energy, whilemaking the best use of the existing network. ”It is estimated that renewable gas, of which Bio-SNG may be a major source, could account for as muchas one fifth of the UK’s heat requirement by 2050.Rolf Stein, Chief Executive, Advanced Plasma Power said, “The development and implementation of aprocess to derive Bio-SNG from waste using our unique Gasplasma® process has significant globalimplications for sustainable waste management and low carbon energy solutions. We look forward todemonstrating the process on our plant in Swindon.”Phillip Cozens, Progressive Energy said, “”This project is a significant step towards greater resource efficiencyin our economy, exploiting the capacity of the existing gas infrastructure and demonstrating the potential todeliver renewable heat at a cost that is competitive with other renewable heat options. The partnership hasput together a strong project execution team to deliver a practical demonstration of Bio-SNG productionfrom residual wastes. Successful demonstration would provide a blue-print for general deployment.”

Download PDF : FINAL Waste to Gas Pilot Project press release 22 Feb 2012

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17 May 2012

The U.S. Air Force has extended the first option period of its 18 month contract with Montreal based PyroGenesis Canada – a specialist in using plasma torches for waste gasification and energy recovery.

According to the company, under its contract with the U.S. Air Force 1st Special Operations Civil Engineering Squadron (1 SOCES) it will operate, maintain and collect operations data on its Plasma Resource Recovery System (PRRS) at the Air Force’s base in Hurlburt Field, Florida.

PyroGenesis said that it designed and manufactured the PRRS, which uses plasma to convert waste into energy and other usable products.

The system began operational testing at the Florida Air Force base late last year.

The contract includes three sequential option periods. The first option period of performance began on October 1, 2011 and has now increased from 7 to 9.25 months in length. The second option period is five months; and the third option period is for six months.

The company said that the 10.5 ton (9.5 tonne) per day facility at the Air Force’s base in Florida is designed to convert solid wastes into energy and reusable by-products.

Specifically, it combines the advanced processes of plasma gasification and vitrification into one system to further break down solid waste into molecular components for use as a fuel to an internal combustion engine to produce electricity.

The company said that it believed the technology at the Hurlburt Field, Florida site to be the only commercial plasma gasification facility in North America that has successfully demonstrated the ability to convert unsorted municipal solid waste into electricity.

“This extension allows us to make additional improvements to our plasma waste to energy technology while further validating its performance in a commercial, land-based setting,” explained P. Peter Pascali, president and CEO of PyroGenesis.

The objective will be to operate the PRRS system 24 hours a day, seven days a week in a continuous, cost-effective and efficient manner, according to the plasma specialist.

The total value of the contact is approximately $2.73 million.

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Canadian plasma technology manufacturer, PyroGenesis, has completed the testing of its Plasma Arc Waste Destruction System (PAWDS) with the U.S. Navy and is ready to roll out the process into marine and land-based markets.

Mobile Waste Gasification Units for Military Applications
Idaho based waste to energy technology supplier, Dynamis Energy has launched its WasteStation – a mobile waste gasification unit with military, healthcare and hospitality applications.

$40 Million Waste to Energy Gasification Contract for Dallas Firm
Primoris Renewables will participate in the construction of two new waste to energy facilities under a recently signed cooperative agreement with Synergy Renewables.

17 May 2012

The U.S. Air Force has extended the first option period of its 18
monthcontract with Montreal based PyroGenesis Canada – a specialist in
using plasma torches for waste gasification and energy recovery.

According to the company, under its contract with the U.S. Air Force 1st
Special Operations Civil Engineering Squadron (1 SOCES) it will operate,
maintain and collect operations data on its Plasma Resource Recovery System
(PRRS) at the Air Force’s base in Hurlburt Field, Florida.

PyroGenesis said that it designed and manufactured the PRRS, which uses
plasma to convert waste into energy and other usable products.

The system began operational testing at the Florida Air Force base late
last year.

The contract includes three sequential option periods. The first option
period of performance began on October 1, 2011 and has now increased from 7
to 9.25 months in length. The second option period is five months; and the
third option period is for six months.

The company said that the 10.5 ton (9.5 tonne) per day facility at the Air
Force’s base in Florida is designed to convert solid wastes into energy and
reusable by-products.

Specifically, it combines the advanced processes of plasma gasification and
vitrification into one system to further break down solid waste into
molecular components for use as a fuel to an internal combustion engine to
produce electricity.

The company said that it believed the technology at the Hurlburt Field,
Florida site to be the only commercial plasma gasification facility in
North America that has successfully demonstrated the ability to convert
unsorted municipal solid waste into electricity.

“This extension allows us to make additional improvements to our
plasmawaste to energy technology while further validating its performance
in a commercial, land-based setting,” explained P. Peter Pascali, president
and CEO of PyroGenesis.

The objective will be to operate the PRRS system 24 hours a day, seven days
a week in a continuous, cost-effective and efficient manner, according to
the plasma specialist.

The total value of the contact is approximately $2.73 million.

Read More

Canadian Plasma Arc Gasification Ready for Take Off After U.S. Navy Trial
Canadian plasma technology manufacturer, PyroGenesis, has completed the
testing of its Plasma Arc Waste Destruction System (PAWDS) with the U.S.
Navy and is ready to roll out the process into marine and land-based
markets.

Mobile Waste Gasification Units for Military Applications
Idaho based waste to energy technology supplier, Dynamis Energy has
launched its WasteStation – a mobile waste gasification unit with military,
healthcare and hospitality applications.

$40 Million Waste to Energy Gasification Contract for Dallas Firm
Primoris Renewables will participate in the construction of two new waste
to energy facilities under a recently signed cooperative agreement with
Synergy Renewables.