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Nature gave
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Waste to Energy -
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Energy from Waste
Waste to Energy - Inventions, Research, Innovations,
Breakthroughs
- Pioneering solution to deal with the UK's municipal
waste, Jan 2006 - Households in the Isle of Wight could become the first
community in the UK to benefit from a technology that allows local
communities to deal with their own waste in an environmentally
responsible way. Rather than incinerate the waste, ENERGOS uses what is
known as Advanced Conversion Technology - gasification, a two-stage
thermal treatment process. Heat energy is recovered from the process to
produce steam that can supply industry, generate electrical power,
heating or hot water for nearby consumers. Read more from this Jan 2006 news report
from Ener.g, UK
- Energy from waste: Dundee Energy Recycling paves the way
for a cleaner future - a detailed 2005 case
study from Metso Automation (PDF)
- New invention will convert waste to active carbon -
Patented process utilizes synthetic crude oil product, greatly reducing
mercury emissions - New U of T research will make it possible to convert
waste material from oil sands into active carbon, and has the potential
to greatly reduce mercury emissions, says this Oct
2005 article from University of Toronto
- NASCAR fuel expert claims invention of Pigoline gas,
that is, fuel from hog waste – a lively forum in which a number of
related alternative
energy possibilities are discussed. See the complete article about
Pigoline gas at Philoneist,
Oct 2006
- Pig Manure Converted to Crude Oil - Stefan Lovgren @ for
National Geographic News, July 2004 - One scientist has found an
alternative source of energy: pig manure. Yuanhui Zhang, an agricultural
engineering professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign,
has succeeded in turning small batches of hog waste into oil, says this
NG article
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- Energy from Organic Waste - To accomplish this, three
major hurdles would need to be overcome: combustible and non-combustible
components need to be separated, metals and glass must be recovered, and
the remaining waste needs to be converted to energy in a nonpolluting
way. Wet thermal oxidation is proposed to produce energy from
waste without polluting incineration. This type of combustion has been
studied extensively in connection with coal, but has not been applied to
other fuels. The system would not discharge pollutants, smoke, or odors.
Wet thermal oxidation can handle waste in a continuous, enclosed process
with much lower pollution and higher efficiency than the “mass burn”
incinerators that are commonly used now. Read more from the US
Department of Energy article (PDF)
- Will Chocolate Fuel Your Next Car? - From Larry West @
About.com - Microbiologist Lynne Mackaskie and her team of researchers
at the University of Birmingham in the UK found a way to produce
hydrogen by feeding waste products from a chocolate factory to
Escherichia coli bacteria. The researchers fed the bacteria (better
known as E.coli bacteria) diluted caramel and nougat waste left over
from the chocolate-making process. Read more from this About.com
article
- Biomass breakthrough is no turkey idea - Missouri
facility converts animal waste to profitable, clean fuel - Apr 2004, by
CFACT - A firm called Changing World Technologies, Inc. has recently
opened an experimental biomass factory which converts bones, feathers,
blood and guts into oil and gas. When the turkey body parts are
mixed with leftover restaurant grease and lots of water, subjected to
air pressures 50 times greater than the earth's surface, and heated up
twice to about 500 and 1000 degrees, a significant amount of quality oil
and other important fuels are produced. Read more from
this CFAT article
- Consortium Project @ University of Southampton, UK -
Appropriate scales and technologies for energy recovery by thermal
processing of waste in the urban environment - Objectives - (a) To
identify optimum types, sizes and distribution of urban thermal energy
recovery plant using an LCA approach; (b) To investigate the potential
for pyrolysis and gasification plants to provide decentralised power
which could link to future energy requirements and changes in
infrastructure; (c) To bring together a database of information on
energy from waste options in the urban environment for future planning
of recovery. Description and Methodology - The overall aim of this
project is to investigate the relative sustainability of alternative
approaches to thermal processing of urban wastes, with a particular
focus on recovery of value in the form of energy products from
smaller-scale plant integrated into the urban environment. Through
application of a general modelling framework, it is intended to link
technology development and assessment activities within the Consortium
programme through common questions about the contributions that
different options may make to meeting various objectives for urban
areas. See the full project report here @ the Univ of Southampton
web page
- Trash Turns into Gold; Breakthrough Technology takes
Municipal Waste and Converts it into Green Energy and Pre-fab
Construction Materials - Jul 2006 - from the web site of Onlypunjab.com
- Cob Creations, LLC provides solutions to the growing scarcity building
materials such as lumber and concreteand urban refuse management. Their
Management Waste System Plant (MWS) Plant-complexes processes municipal
solid waste into a high-quality, low-cost construction material as well
as into renewable fuel. More from the Cob Creations web site
- Pig Manure Converted to Crude Oil - Stefan Lovgren -
National Geographic News - July, 2004 - Yuanhui Zhang, an
agricultural engineering professor at the University of Illinois in
Urbana-Champaign, has succeeded in turning small batches of hog waste
into oil. Using a process called thermochemical conversionthe process
converts each half-gallon (two-liter) batch of manure to about 9 ounces
(0.26 liter) of oil. Read more from this National
Geographic article
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