Reduce Material Placed in Landfills

The combination of TBE’s advanced sorting and separating process coupled to our gasifier process can reduce materials going to landfills by approximately 90% depending on the local waste characterization. This will potentially reduce the cost of disposal for taxpayers and businesses.

Reduce Truck Pollution

The limited land available for landfill space has resulted in the transport of millions of tons of materials to landfills in other states. The transport of these materials over long distances contributes to significant deterioration of the environment. Every 100 miles of travel by truck produces over 1 1/2 pounds of air pollutants such as nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds. The installation of one integrated TBE system of the size proposed for Montgomery, NY will reduce emissions of these pollutants by approximately 140,000 pounds annually by reducing the transport of wastes.

Reduce Emissions

Gasification will reduce overall emissions by converting the incoming biomass into a combustible gas that will be cleaned to remove contaminants (such as nitrogen and sulphur containing compounds). When landfilled, the ash from an integrated Taylor system will not produce greenhouse gas emissions, as only an inorganic fraction of the waste remains due to the effective conversion in the Taylor process.

Commercially replicated in the targeted areas of the United States, the Montgomery Project has the potential annually to eliminate 5 million tons of greenhouse gasses and reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills by over 30 million tons. The Montgomery Project alone is projected to reduce air pollutants by approximately 70 tons annually for every year it is in operation, when considering the reliance on biomass innovation vs. fossil fuel conventional technology. Greenhouse gas emissions are expected to be approximately 1670/MWh produced compared to over 2900 lb/MWh for conventional technologies. Project emissions are about half that of equivalent MSW disposal in a landfill and about 34% lower than emissions from an MSW incinerator handling an equal amount of MSW.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Emissions of greenhouse gasses from landfills amount to approximately 2.5 pounds for every pound of carbon in the landfill. Methane has a global warming potential (GWP) 21 times that of carbon dioxide, the major component in greenhouse gases. Over 75% of the methane emissions in the environment originate from MSW decomposition in landfills. By converting the organic material into sustainable energy, these emissions can be virtually eliminated.

By implementing the integrated Taylor Biomass Energy Solution in the targeted population centers in the United States, over 5 million tons of greenhouse gases can be eliminated annually from the atmosphere (expressed as CO2 equivalents). (As mentioned, a facility the size of The Montgomery Project can serve a local area with a population of approximately 250,000, within a 30 mile radius. 75% of the population in the United States live in areas with a population of 250,000. Full implementation of the Taylor Biomass Energy Solution in the targeted areas in the U.S., therefore, would eliminate over 1.5 million tons of greenhouse gasses annually, from trucking alone. A further 3.5 million tons of reduced greenhouse gases is avoided because material does not end up in the landfill to decay, and also due to the generation of energy from biomass, rather than from fossil fuel.)

Since the post-sorted biomass from C&D and MSW residuals is a sustainable biomass source, the net CO2 emissions from the overall process (as with other biomass systems), is near zero. Due to the significant efficiency improvement when compared to more conventional combustion technologies, CO2 emissions are greatly reduced on a per unit product basis at the plant stack, even before being recycled in the biomass life cycle. These “raw CO2 “ emissions are expected to be approximately 1670lb/MWh produced compared to over 2900 lb/MWh for conventional technologies.

Reduction in Landfill Material

Based on the same conversion from conventional technology to Taylor Energy Solution in the targeted areas, over 30 million tons of material could be eliminated from landfills annually, while generating an energy product that can directly offset natural gas imports, or be used to generate renewable electric power, or other energy products.

When considering biomass that goes to the gasifier for energy production, on a blended basis, it is expected that of the combined C&D and MSW material input to the process, only 15% will flow back out to be landfilled. This results in an 85% reduction in materials going to landfills.

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