waste gasification

The paper was entitled 'Background to the need for and current state of municipal waste gasification technology.

A major challenge for waste gasification technologies is to reach an acceptable (positive) gross electric efficiency.

Waste gasification has several advantages over incineration:

Cities in Florida, California, Louisiana and Michigan are contemplating or planning waste gasification facilities.

The energy from waste gasification plant will be built at the site of the former Burnhouse factory on Moira Road.

Ze-gen is operating a waste gasification demonstration facility in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Medio Ambiente (environment) - turnkey plants for waste treatment and recycling, waste gasification, renewable energy.

CHO Power is a waste gasification power producer (EfW - Electricity from Waste).

Announced in mid-2011, and named 'Energy Works', the proposed plant would process up to 200,000 tonnes of organic material per year, with energy produced via a waste gasification process.

Another question mark over the green credentials of waste gasification concerns just how efficient these plants are at producing energy and minimising greenhouse gas emissions compared with other methods of waste disposal.

For example, a pilot scale cotton waste gasification project is being developed in NSW that could form the basis of numerous decentralised generation plants with a capacity of 1 to 5 MW each (Cameron 1997).

Several waste gasification processes have been proposed, but few have yet been built and tested, and only a handful have been implemented as plants processing real waste, and most of the time in combination with fossil fuels.

Other Western Canadian "home-grown" alternatives to fossil fuels include clean fuel technologies, small-scale hydro and biomass co-generation systems, such as a full-scale wood waste gasification system developed by Vancouver's Nexterra that will be used to heat an existing lime kiln at Weyerhaeuser's Kamloops cellulose fibre mill.