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April, 2013:

MagneGas Signs $2.7 Million Agreement with Clear Sky Energy S.A. de C.V. of Mexico

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Definitive Agreements Signed, Initial Deposit Received for the Sale of a MagneGas Gasification System for $2.7 Million

TAMPA, Fla., April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — MagneGas Corporation (“MagneGas” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: MNGA), the developer of a technology that converts liquid waste into a hydrogen-based metal working fuel and natural gas alternative, announced today that it has signed definitive agreements with Clear Sky Energy S.A. de C.V. (“CSE”) in which CSE will purchase a Plasma Arc Flow™ gasification system from the Company for an aggregate purchase price of $2.7 million plus 5% royalties. In addition, CSE will be an exclusive distributor for MagneGas products and services in Mexico.

“CSE is very pleased to represent the MagneGas technology in Mexico. The opportunities in front of us are numerous and broad in scope. We feel the MagneGas technology will have a significant impact in the industrial gas, sewage treatment and hazardous waste treatment markets. We are confident that the combination of CSE’s access to markets coupled with the MagneGas technology will result in several significant opportunities to satisfy the growing demand for Liquid Waste to Energy solutions in Mexico,” said Manuel Juan Marcos , CEO of CSE.

“We were amazed by the access to markets CSE has in Mexico. The recent demonstration to potential CSE customers was well managed and tremendously convincing,” stated MagneGas CEO Ermanno Santilli . “MagneGas provided a mobile unit for testing in Mexico and the CSE team brought oil wastes from around the country. Together we performed a live demonstration of oil wastes being gasified by our recycler, MagneGas feeding a generator and electricity being produced on demand. The customer feedback was very positive.”

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About MagneGas Corporation

Founded in 2007, Tampa-based MagneGas Corporation (NASDAQ: MNGA) is the producer of MagneGasa, a natural gas alternative and metal working fuel that can be made from certain industrial, municipal, agricultural and military liquid wastes following the receipt of appropriate governmental permits.

The Company’s patented Plasma Arc Flowa process gasifies liquid waste, creating a clean burning hydrogen based fuel that is essentially interchangeable with natural gas. MagneGasa can be used for metal working, cooking, heating, powering bi fuel automobiles and more. For more information on MagneGas, please visit the Company’s website at www.MagneGas.com.

About CSE

CSE, formed in 2010, focuses on the development and distribution of sustainable, green energy technologies in Mexico. In particular Clear Sky Energy maintains a focus on helping the energy industry in Mexico dispose of traditionally challenging waste and waste material in ways that are significantly more environmentally conscious and friendly when compared to current methods. CSE and its principals have deep ties to the energy industry in Mexico. CSE will be a leader in assisting companies deal responsibly with newly adopted regulations aimed at better protecting citizens and the environment in Mexico and Latin America.

Final three named in EfW design contest

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Final three named in EfW design contest

09 April 2013 by Susanna Prouse

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The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has announced a shortlist of three companies still in competition to design ‘the most economically and commercially viable, energy from waste (EfW) gasification demonstrator plant’.

Gasification is a process that converts organic or carbon-based materials into syngas, a combination fuel of carbon monoxide, hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

Advanced Plasma Power (APP), Broadcrown Ltd and Royal Dahlman were all selected from the companies that replied to ETI’s ‘request for proposals’ launched in April 2012. The companies will now design and develop projects plants ‘to demonstrate an integrated system that would be commercial at between five and 20 megawatts (MWe)’.

ETI – a public-private partnership between BP, Caterpillar, EDF, E.ON, Rolls-Royce and Shell – has stated that the aim of this stage of the project, reportedly worth £2.8 million, is to ‘demonstrate how such a plant could create energy-from-waste efficiencies higher than previously produced in the industry at this scale’.

According to environmental consultancy AEA, current incineration plants operate at efficiency rates of 15 to 25 per cent. ETI has said that it accepts that there is a challenge with the designs, as ‘each complete system will need to operate at a net electrical efficiency of at least 25 per cent’.

The designs

The APP led consortium will design a six MWe demonstration facility featuring its Gasplasma technology, which uses a separate plasma furnace to ‘crack and clean the crude syngas from gasifier’.

Broadcrown will design a two MWe high-efficiency demonstration facility using ‘a robust yet highly scaleable concept that promotes distributed waste management and power generation’. The company is also partnering with ‘major European and American technology companies’ to demonstrate a combined cycle using syngas.

Royal Dahlman will develop a seven MWe plant using patented MILENA-OLGA technology, developed in cooperation with Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands. The company is heading a team of British, Swiss, American and Dutch partners.

The first phase of the project takes in design and will last 10 months. The winning submission will be selected in early 2014, based on cost and projected performance.

According to ETI, the plant that is selected could be designed, built, tested and in operation by 2016. The chosen plant is then expected to operate as a demonstration site for up to four years.

The competition reportedly marks the ‘first time’ a total system approach for an energy from waste gasification facility of this size has been considered in a Research and Development (R&D) project.

“The breakthrough we are all looking for”

Paul Winstanley, the ETI Bioenergy Project Manager overseeing the competition, said: “Our national modelling work shows that bioenergy could be a key component of any future energy systems mix to meet the demands of providing affordable, secure and sustainable energy.

“This analysis indicates that new plant designs at this scale could potentially operate at a net efficiency rate of at least 25 per cent, which significantly exceeds the performance of current plants in operation. Any successful design of such a plant will provide the opportunity to move towards more efficient, distributed energy conversion technologies and reduce dependency on landfill for waste management in the UK.”

Rolf Stein, CEO of Advanced Plasma Power, voiced his delight at being given the opportunity to demonstrate the ‘Gasplasma waste to energy technology’ as it “improves competition in the market for the generation of electricity from syngas”.

Broadcrown Ltd’s co-founder and Managing Director, David Borgman said the commission was a “welcome endorsement of [Broadcrown’s] commitment to providing the best engineering expertise and delivering systems to the highest possible standard”.

Jan-Willem Könemann, Renewable Technology Executive at Royal Dahlman, added: “In the current economical situation it is hard to finance innovative and therewith risky projects launching new technology. This ETI project, resulting in a technical and commercial successful waste to energy plant, will be the breakthrough we are all looking for.”

Read more about The Energy Techologies Institute’s shortlist

13.6 MW Plasma Gasification Waste Project to Demo Fuel Cells

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13.6 MW Plasma Gasification Waste Project to Demo Fuel Cells

9 April 2013

By Ben Messenger
Managing Editor of Waste Management World magazine

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waste2tricity 13.6 MW Plasma Gasification Waste Project to Demo Fuel CellsLondon, UK based Waste2Tricity (W2T), which specialises in advancing the use of plasma gasification technology to treat waste, as well as the integration of fuel cells to generate electricity is to start a Concept Design Study for the development of an advanced waste to energy plant.

According to the company, waste, mineral and environmental infrastructure developer, Peel Environmental, will provide the property for the facility.

W2T said that the facility will process around 100,000 tonnes per year of residual household or commercial and industrial waste sourced from several suppliers including Energy Gap Ltd.

The company added that in common with the Air Products plant on Teesside which recently started construction (see WMW story), the plant will use Westinghouse plasma assisted gasification from Alter NRG.

Alter NRG is providing a discounted technology license for the Project in exchange for an option to take a minority investment.

W2T, in conjunction with its engineer AMEC and consultant Foster Wheeler, said that it is also working with partners to draw up plans for the 13.6 MW plant, which will produce nearly 109,000 MWh of low carbon electricity a year – enough to power around 24,000 homes.

Fuel cells

The project will utilise internal combustion engines to generate electricity from the syngas produced by the gasification process. However W2T said that it expects to also demonstrate AFC Energy’s alkaline fuel cells, as they become commercially available.

The company claimed that the equivalent fuel cell plant will export an additional 43% of electricity from the same amount of feedstock.

“We expect this to be the first of many similar programmes for the project partners in the UK,” commented Peter Jones, chairman of W2T.

“The 100,000 tonnes a year model will meet the localism agenda – using locally derived feedstock to supply electricity to local homes and businesses,” he added.

According to the chairman there is a potential market in the UK for up to 100 plants of this size.

“Once we are able to deploy fuel cells, the output from our plants will increase substantially and be carbon capture ready – holding out the prospect of carbon negative electricity,” added Jones.

Read More

Is Waste Gasification Finally Coming of Age?
Spurred by government incentives and a stable regulatory environment, Air Products has begun construction of a 50 MW plasma gasification facility in Teesside. With the company already planning a second such plant at the site – as well as others around the country – is the waste industry entering the age of gasification?

£2.8m Competition to Design Waste Gasification Pilot Plant in UK
A competition to design the most efficient and economically viable waste gasification demonstrator plant has selected a shortlist of three candidates.

Rise of Plasma Gasification Boosts Revenue at Alter NRG
Plasma gasification technology supplier, Alter NRG has increased revenues for the second quarter of 2012 by 225% over the previous year.

Second Plasma Gasification Plant for Teesside Following Government Deal

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12 April 2013

By Ben Messenger
Managing Editor of Waste Management World magazine

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air products plasma Gasification waste to energyTeesside uk Government power purchase agreement

Air Products is to build a second 350,000 tonne per year waste to energy plasma gasification facility on Teesside following the signing of a 20 year power purchase agreement with the UK government’s Cabinet Office.

According to the government the deal is worth 2% of government’s energy spend and is expected to deliver £84 million in savings over the life of the contract through a fixed agreement that will provide stability in what the public sector pays for energy.

As part of the deal, the government said that Air Products expects to invest an amount similar to that of its first plant, around £300 million, to build a second waste to energy facility in Tees Valley, Teesside to supply the agreed 37 MW.

The government said that the agreement means that through its Government Procurement Service (GPS) it will buy a portion of its energy directly from a UK-based generator at a low fixed price, rather than buying entirely through short-term wholesale markets which are subject to unpredictable price fluctuations.

New model for government procurement

“This is the beginning of a pioneering approach to how government uses its collective buying power and long term demand to buy energy,” said the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude.

“Not only have we secured £84 million of savings for taxpayers by signing a new, low cost energy deal with Air Products, but we’re also helping the UK compete in the global race by investing in growth and creating hundreds of new jobs through the construction of a new ‘energy from waste’ plant,” he added.

Lisa Jordan, Air Products’ business manager for Bio-Energy Europe, commented: “By buying the electricity we produce, the Cabinet Office will help Air Products divert up to 350,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste from landfill every year, which we will turn into reliable, controllable, renewable energy.”

According to the Cabinet Office said that the new approach will lead to more engagement with the energy industry to assess opportunities for further energy procurements over the next five years.

The government claimed that this could mean a significant increase in generating capacity in the UK and help drive down bills for everyone through increased competition.

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Is Waste Gasification Finally Coming of Age?
Spurred by government incentives and a stable regulatory environment, Air Products has begun construction of a 50 MW plasma gasification facility in Teesside. With the company already planning a second such plant at the site – as well as others around the country – is the waste industry entering the age of gasification?

13.6 MW Plasma Gasification Waste Project to Demo Fuel Cells
London, UK based Waste2Tricity, which specialises in advancing the use of plasma gasification technology to treat waste, as well as the integration of fuel cells to generate electricity is to start a Concept Design Study for the development of an advanced waste to energy plant.

£2.8m Competition to Design Waste Gasification Pilot Plant in UK
A competition to design the most efficient and economically viable waste gasification demonstrator plant has selected a shortlist of three candidates