In the USA AECOM staff embrace plasma gasification technology.
In Hong Kong AECOM is promoting outdated incineration technology – do they know what they are doing or is the HK EPD pulling their strings instead of consulting them?
http://alternrg.com/press_release_94407
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“The site AFE has chosen for this project is well suited for this facility”, said Mike Zebell P.E. of AECOM (NYSE:ACM), a Fortune 500 company serving clients in more than 100 countries and a global provider of professional technical, environmental and management support services. “We believe that this technology is not only environmentally friendly but ready for large-scale commercialization. We are excited to partner with an entrepreneurial firm like AFE, one of the industries leading developers focused on building environmentally responsible energy projects using plasma gasification technology.”
Alter NRG contacts:
Mark Montemurro, President and Chief Executive Officer
(403) 806-3877 mmontemurro@alternrg.ca
Daniel Hay, Chief Financial Officer
(403) 806-3881 dhay@alternrg.ca
http://www.afeservices.com/press_02012010.php
Milwaukee-based renewable energy project to generate “green power” with clean syngas from waste products
For additional information, contact: Joshua Morby, 414-791-9120, jmorby@afeservices.com
MILWAUKEE, February 1, 2010 – Alliance Federated Energy (AFE) on Monday formally announced the development of “Project Apollo,” a 25MW renewable energy project located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Project Apollo plans to utilize Westinghouse Plasma Corp.’s (WPC) plasma gasification technology to process municipal and industrial wastes into renewable energy. Because there is no combustion, the waste is not burned but converted into its original elemental form, creating significant quantities of clean syngas that can be used to generate electricity, steam or bio-fuels. There are several facilities operating commercially around the world using WPC technology and several more in final design phase and or construction.
The $225 million project is expected to create more than 250 jobs during the construction process and employ 45 full time people once operational. Approximately 30% of the waste feedstock is already committed from Badger Disposal of Wisconsin, one of region’s leading industrial waste management services companies. Discussions are underway with third parties for the sale of syngas and electricity.
AFE plans to have the project operational in late 2013. The first phase of the renewable energy facility is expected to process approximately 1200 tons of municipal and industrial waste per day, generating enough clean energy to power roughly 20,000 homes in the Milwaukee area. “This commercially proven technology is the ultimate in recycling, said Christopher Maloney, CEO of Alliance Federated Energy, and we are pleased to be building our first project right here in Wisconsin, a state committed to promoting environmental stewardship and technological innovation.”
“We are pleased that AFE has selected Wisconsin for their first renewable energy project,” said Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle. “This technology has real potential to help us address the growing need for clean renewable power. Project Apollo will create new clean energy jobs in our state, reduce the need for continued land filling of our wastes, and reduce greenhouse gases.”
“The site AFE has chosen for this project is well suited for this facility”, said Mike Zebell P.E. of AECOM (NYSE:ACM), a Fortune 500 company serving clients in more than 100 countries and a global provider of professional technical, environmental and management support services. “We believe that this technology is not only environmentally friendly but ready for large-scale commercialization. We are excited to partner with an entrepreneurial firm like AFE, one of the industries leading developers focused on building environmentally responsible energy projects using plasma gasification technology.”
CorVal-Ryan (CorVal), a leading EPC firm in the alternative energy sector, has been selected to design and fabricate the facility, bringing their 85-year history of performance excellence to the AFE team. “We believe that plasma gasification technology has the potential to be a major player in the renewable energy market and are excited to be working with AFE on their Apollo Project” said Bob Cutshall, President at CorVal-Ryan. “We have a number of plasma gasification based renewable energy projects in design or under construction and see that number growing in the coming years” he added.
About Alliance Federated Energy
Established in 2005, Alliance Federated Energy is a developer of renewable energy and related infrastructure projects focused on environmentally sustainable technologies, with a specific focus on plasma gasification technology for electric generation and energy production.
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Independent Engineering Support
The performance of the Alter NRG gasification system have been independently reviewed. Over the past 24 months, Alter NRG has engaged a number of industry-leading third-party engineering and consulting firms to review the Company’s plasma gasification technology.
The third-party reports resulted in a number of key findings related to the Alter NRG technology. This information will allow Alter NRG to:
- · Provide customers, strategic partners and regulators with detailed and independent information on the technology
- · Assist developers in permitting facilities
- · Help Alter NRG engineers optimize our technology to ensure we remain a market leader in plasma gasification
The following is a list of firms that completed environmental reviews of Alter NRG’s technology:
Setting the Industry Standard with our Product Offering
Alter NRG’s Plasma Gasification Technology is a Market Leader
Alter NRG “is pursuing opportunities to use its own plasma gasification technology, which has recently been acquired from Westinghouse Plasma Corporation, who are widely regarded as a leading supplier of plasma torch technology.”
Juniper
Plasma Gasification is a Clean Energy Solution – Energy Recovery from Waste
Alter NRG’s 750 tonne-per-day waste-to-energy plasma gasification facility “will result in substantial renewable energy production from post consumer waste streams that would normally have to be land filled, while providing state-of-the-art emission control…
“These emissions will be substantially lower than traditional mass burn or refuse derived fuel processes commonly used in the waste to energy industry. Diversion of MSW from solid waste landfills (where the potent greenhouse gas methane is formed) will result in substantial net decreases in greenhouse gas emissions as CO2 equivalent. Since the proposed organic feed stocks are post consumer waste streams, the project represents a renewable and sustainable clean energy resource.”
ENSR-AECOM
Alter NRG’s Plasma Gasification Technology is Commercially Proven
Utashinai and Mihama-Mikata are the only plasma gasification plants processing MSW in the world on a commercial basis at this time.
Juniper
Plasma Gasification Design Validation – Power Plant Retrofits
Clean coal plasma gasification technology is an innovative application of proven technology. The commercial application of plasma gasification as a clean coal technology is the collaboration of a number of advanced technologies…
ENSR-AECOM
…the Plasma Technology appears to be a sound method of gasifying organic feedstocks and producing fuel gas compatible with boiler combustion.
RW Beck
AlterNRG has 20 MSW plasma gasification projects in pipeline
admin | June 30, 2010
In Canada, AlterNRG’s June 18 corporate presentation shows strong growth: the Canadian owner of Westinghouse Plasma technology notes that they currently have 20 projects in the engineering stage with a potential total sales value of ~$500 million, and several projects expected to order gasifiers in 2010 and 2011 valued between ~$10 to $90 million in sales.
The company reports that ENSR – AECOM completed an engineer’s review verifying that Alter NRG’s assumptions of emissions from a 750 tpd MSW Plasma Gasification Combined Cycle WTE facility will be below emission limits for North America.
The report confirms that processing waste through plasma gasification results in “emission levels substantially below mass burn processes.” On June 15, the firm announced that it has signed a strategic alliance agreement with SMS EnvoCare Ltd (“SMS”) which has constructed and operates two hazardous waste to energy facilities in India using the Westinghouse Plasma technology.