advanced gasification technology News

Government agrees gasification worthy of renewables obligation certificate

Gasification has qualified for Government subsidies under the Renewables Obligation system offering support to businesses developing the technology. This sector advance follows a Government decision to amend its proposed changes to legislation, which would have altered the definition of gasification. These changes could have stopped projects based on their feed stock, rather than the technology ...

Feb. 16, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Chinook Sciences wins Rushlight Waste to Energy award for 2012-2013

Chinook Sciences LLC, the leading manufacturer and operator of advanced gasification technology worldwide, has been honoured with a Rushlight Waste-to-Energy Award for 2012-2013. The Rushlight Awards celebrate and promote leading organisations in the UK and Ireland that have furthered environmental technology and innovation. Previous winners include Mitsubishi Electric, Doosan Babcock, Air ...

Apr. 9, 2013

By Chinook Sciences, LLC

Air Products to Build the World`s Largest Advanced Gasification Energy-from-Waste Facility

Air Products (NYSE: APD) today announced it will build and operate the world's largest renewable energy plant in the UK using advanced gasification energy-from-waste (EfW) technology. The Tees Valley plant, located at the New Energy and Technology Business Park, near Billingham, Teesside, will be the first of its kind in the UK, and the largest of its kind anywhere in the world with an ...

Aug. 7, 2012

By Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

New recovery act funding boosts industrial carbon capture and storage research and development

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the selection of 22 projects that will accelerate carbon capture and storage research and development for industrial sources. Funded with more than US$575 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, these R&D projects complement the industrial demonstration projects already being funded through the Recovery Act. Together, these ...

Sep. 8, 2010

By US Department of Energy

New Joint Venture: Advanced thermal conversion technology for renewable DME

SHV Energy, a leading global distributor of LPG, and KEW Technology, a pioneering UK sustainable energy solutions company, will form a joint venture called Circular Fuels Ltd. It will develop renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) production plants. This strategic collaboration will demonstrate the viability of converting renewable and recycled carbon feedstock into renewable liquid gas. The ...

Jun. 3, 2021

By European Biogas Association (EBA)

Advanced Plasma Power announces appointment of Sir John Parker as Chairman to further strengthen its Board

Leading UK advanced gasification technology pioneer, Advanced Plasma Power (APP), is today delighted to announce the appointment to the Board of Sir John Parker as Chairman with effect from 3rd May 2017. This news comes hot on the heels of the appointment to the Board of David Parkin, Director of Network Strategy for Cadent (formerly National Grid Gas Distribution) and signals a real intent on ...

May 8, 2017

By Advanced Plasma Power Limited (APP)

New Earth to raise minimum of £15m in equity

Waste treatment and renewable energy company New Earth Group hopes to raise £15 million in equity to help grow the business and develop energy from waste plants. The three operational sites currently owned by the firm have been financed through its own retail and institutional funds with existing senior debt facilities. A minority stake in the firm will be given in exchange for the equity. ...

Aug. 12, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Outotec to provide a renewable energy solution for a bio-ethanol facility in Iowa, USA

OUTOTEC OYJ PRESS RELEASE JANUARY 30, 2013 at 1:30 PM Outotec to provide a renewable energy solution for a bio-ethanol facility in Iowa, USA Outotec has agreed with a major cellulosic ethanol producer on the design and delivery of a renewable energy solution for a bio-ethanol facility in Iowa, USA. The order has been included in Outotec's Q4 2012 order intake and its value will not be ...

Jan. 30, 2013

By Metso Outotec

DOE Pens New Agreement with Southern Company to Test Advanced Carbon-Capture & Gasification Technologies

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has signed a new 5-year cooperative agreement with Southern Company to evaluate advanced carbon-capture and gasification technologies at the National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC) in Wilsonville, Ala. Under the agreement, which will be managed by the National Energy Technology Laboratory, Southern Company (Atlanta, Ga.) will test both pre- and post-combustion ...

Jun. 12, 2014

By US Department of Energy

DOE Selects Gasification Technology Research Projects for Funding

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected seven projects to receive funding through NETL’s Gasification System Program. This program supports a wide range of research and development activities aimed at improving fuel and product versatility, efficiency, and economics of gasification processes. The projects conducted through this ...

Jul. 14, 2015

By US Department of Energy

Royal Dahlman project in collaboration with NNFCC shortlisted for gasifier pilot funding

The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has announced the shortlist of companies vying for £2.8 million in funding to build an energy from waste gasification demonstrator plant. In 2012, the ETI launched a competition to find a company to design "the most economically and commercially viable, efficient energy from waste gasification demonstrator plant possible". The ETI has now narrowed ...

Apr. 10, 2013

By NNFCC Ltd.

Largest Gasification Plant in the world nears completion

Dubbed the “largest gasification plant in the world”, construction work is nearly done on Air Products’ second 50 MW plasma gasification waste to energy facility on Teesside, North East England. While a number of major projects are underway globally, waste gasification has a chequered past. Many argue that when traditional thermal treatment with heat recovery is able to achieve ...

Jun. 9, 2015

By GPT Waste Management Ltd

Largest Gasification Plant in the World nears Completion

While a number of major projects are underway globally, waste gasification has a chequered past. Many argue that when traditional thermal treatment with heat recovery is able to achieve such high efficiencies, gasification is complex and unnecessary. Others point to low emissions and the potential to produce products such as hydrogen. Air Products is due to begin processing 350,000 tonnes of RDF ...

Jun. 9, 2015

By GPT Waste Management Ltd

Lihuayi Again Selects GE’s Gasification Technology to Boost Refinery Hydrogen Production

Project is GE’s Second Gasification Order forLijin Petrochemical Refinery in Shandong GE’s Gasification Solution Enhances Company’s Leading Position in Refinery Hydrogen Production Reliable Coal-to-Chemicals Gasification Technology Supports China’s Goals to Reduce Industrial Emissions Lihuayi Group, a leading petrochemicals supplier in China, has selected ...

Nov. 27, 2013

By General Electric

Advanced Plasma Power grants industrial licence to Plasma Green Energy

Advanced Plasma Power (APP), a world leader in advanced waste to energy and fuels technology, has entered into an exclusive licence arrangement with institutionally funded Plasma Green Energy (PGE) – a joint venture partner in which APP holds a 20% interest - to construct and operate Gasplasma® plants globally utilising particular industrial wastes. The deal, the first of its kind in ...

May 1, 2012

By Advanced Plasma Power Limited (APP)

Future of FutureGen clean coal plant looks dim

Illinois elected officials are vowing to fight all the way to the White House a plan by the U.S. Department of Energy to kill the FutureGen clean coal project that was slated for Mattoon, Illinois. The $1.8 billion state-of-the-art plant announced in 2003 was billed as the cleanest in the world. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman informed the Illinois Congressional Delegation at a meeting in ...

Jan. 30, 2008

By Environment News Service (ENS)

US concludes productive G8+3 energy ministerial meeting in Japan

US Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman concluded his weekend visit to Aomori, Japan where he participated in the Five-Country and the Group of Eight (G8), China, India and Korea Energy Ministerial meetings hosted by Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Akira Amari. While in Japan, the Secretary met with ministers and other high-level government officials from G8 countries, China, ...

Jun. 9, 2008

By US Department of Energy

Green gas consortium wins 2017 Energy Institute (EI) Award

Green gas consortium wins 2017 Energy Institute (EI) Award Consortium partners win Energy Institute (EI) Technology Award for ground-breaking BioSNG Demonstration Plant in Swindon Plant successfully trialled game-changing technology to make gas from household waste Construction of world’s first commercially operating plant under way with potential for more in the pipeline A ...

Nov. 10, 2017

By Advanced Plasma Power Limited (APP)

Energy Department Announces New Investments in Gasification Research

Today, as part of the Administration’s all-of-the-above energy approach, the Department of Energy has selected four projects to receive funding for next-generation gasification systems that also reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions. Awardees will receive approximately $16 million to advance the gasification process, which converts carbon-based materials like coal into syngas for use as ...

Nov. 6, 2014

By US Department of Energy

Energos due to open GBP 8m gasification plant

Energy technology business Energos is due to open its GBP 8 million Isle of Wight gasification plant in the middle of November. Energos claims that the plant will be a UK first for using advanced thermal conversion technology in the gasification process. The facility is part of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs New Technology Demonstrator Programme, which aims to ...

Nov. 4, 2008

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company