waste-derived fuel News
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UK consultation on proposed changes to renewable transport fuel obligations
On November 29, 2016, the United Kingdom (UK) Department of Transportation published proposed legislative changes to the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO), which is open for consultation until January 22, 2017. Among the proposed changes is an increase in the blending mandates to 9.75 percent by volume for 2020. The three main proposals outlined detail increasing the supply of waste ...
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RDF exports at around 3m tonnes in 2016
Provisional figures released by the Agency for the period of January to November 2016, show a total of 2,884,866 tonnes of waste derived fuel was approved for export, which is roughly 262,000 tonnes per month. RDF exports continued to climb in 2016 at a slower rate than in recent years. The feedstock material predominantly consists of refuse derived fuel (RDF), however a growing amount of ...
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Carbon Trust invests £4M in energy from waste technology
Waste treatment and renewable energy firm New Earth Solutions Group has received a £4 million investment from Carbon Trust Investments. Set up by the Government to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy, the Carbon Trust hopes to support New Earth’s creation of a waste to energy business. The firm hopes to implement gasification and pyrolysis technologies to generate electricity from ...
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Energy-from-Waste drive ‘could compromise recycling targets’
Senior consultants from Eunomia have called on Defra to introduce policy measures that would “damp down” the EfW sector to bolster recycling rates. Steve Almond, sales engineer with Tomra Sorting Recycling, said: “Our industry’s current fixation on EfW as the solution for our waste really worries me,” he said. “The opening of this new [Trident Park] plant ...
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Renewa has acquired French service company Sotherma
On February 28, 2013, Renewa acquired the entire share capital of a French company Sotherma SAS that specializes in boiler and power plant service. The sellers were Anthony and Muriel Germany. Anthony Germany will continue in Renewa’s employ and will be responsible for Renewa’s service business in France. “Sotherma is an experienced boiler service company and Renewa a ...
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Renewa delivers a bioenergy boiler plant to Manestad in Sweden
Renewa Oy, an expert in local bioenergy, has signed an agreement with Katrinefors Kraftvärme Ab (KKAB) on delivering a 28 MW bioenergy boiler plant to Mariestad in Sweden. Renewa will deliver a bioenergy boiler plant for combined heat and power production to Metsä Tissue paper mill in Mariestad, Sweden. The boiler plant will produce process steam for Metsä Tissue paper mill, steam ...
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Building a lower-carbon construction industry
Key ideas for reducing the carbon footprint of buildings, from blueprint to build and beyond. By Dominic Burbridge, Senior Client Manager, Carbon Trust Advisory Carbon reduction is a complex challenge for all organisations, not least those in the construction industry. Taking a cradle-to-grave view of the construction sector value chain means considering all aspects of the design, construction, ...
By Carbon Trust
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Climate protection on industrial sites
Refuse derived fuels in industrial power plants help to save CO2 Power plants on industrial sites can reduce the owner's costs for power, steam or heat production. Onsite power stations also help to prevent CO2 emissions if fossil feedstocks are substituted with refuse derived fuels (RDF). At the 'waste to energy' on May 9 to 10, 2007 in the Bremen Convention Center, experts from Germany and ...
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Researchers: Bio4Energy Rules at Leading Biomass Fuel Quality Conference
Late October, leading researchers on the quality of biomass-based fuels met as an Impacts of Fuel Quality on Power Production conference—given this year at Snowbird, Utah, U.S.A.—with one in five talks being delivered by a scientist from Bio4Energy. While the conference is one of the most respected recurrent events on biomass combustion and gasification research, this year was ...
By Bio4Energy
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From Waste to Value - Vendors, Buyers, Energy Consumers Meet at the EBW Expo & Conference in Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, PA / Alpen, Germany - While many still regard waste as a liability, an increasing number of proponents of clean, domestically available fuels see it as an asset. Energy recovery from waste can help reduce the dependence on oil imports and protect the environment.At America's first international exhibition and conference on 'energy from biomass and waste', EBW, manufacturers of ...
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Fisia Babcock started 2008 with a EUR 570m order backlog
With an order backlog of 570 million Euro (IFRS) FISIA BABCOCK ENVIRONMENT GmbH (FBE) has started in the new financial year. The development of order input and turnover of the technology company was definitely more positive than expected, explained Managing Directors Dr. Gian Paolo Maccone and Dr. Gert Riemenschneider. The sales revenue increased by 70 million up to a total amount of more than ...
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US Virgin Islands government signs historic agreement to develop territory’s first alternative energy facilities
Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. (GBB) announced today that it provided expertise, as a subcontractor to the Maguire Group, to the Virgin Islands Waste Management Authority (VIWMA) with due diligence review of waste-to-energy proposals and assistance in negotiations for Solid Waste Management Service Contracts for St. Thomas and St. Croix.As a result, on August 10, 2009, Governor John P. ...
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Thermal treatment: Refuse-derived fuel combustion
Decentralized solution for a Channel Island Michaelis has received an order from a major European waste disposal company for a refuse-derived fuel plant in England. Power generation: 4.3 MWh/h. The system is currently being installed. ...
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ANDRITZ to supply new power boiler for the Pohang waste-to-energy plant, South Korea
International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from POSCO E&C to supply key equipment for a 50-megawatt bubbling fluidized bed boiler fired with refuse-derived fuel for the greenfield waste-to-energy plant in Pohang, South Korea. Start-up is scheduled for spring 2018. The scope of supply also includes basic engineering as well as supervisory services for erection and ...
By Andritz AG
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Biofuel to power dover port
Renewable Energy Generation Group, owner of biofuel manufacturer REG Bio-Power, has signed a five-year contract to supply the Port of Dover with heat and electricity. REG has constructed a combined heat and power plant at Dover Docks, which will be powered with fuel derived from waste cooking oil. As part of the firm’s first independent commercial contract, 150 KW engine generator set (genset) ...
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Jeffrey Rader Corporation selected as supplier of Alternative Fuel Boiler Feed System
Woodruff, SC - Jeffrey Rader Corporation, a leading equipment supplier of material handling equipment to the energy and forest products industries, has been awarded a significant contract to supply an alternative fuel material handling and boiler feed system in Jeonju, South Korea. The system will be part of a 100MW cogeneration plant that will supply power and process steam for the Korean ...
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The UK paves the way for energy recovery from biomass and waste
According to the UK Waste Strategy landfilling waste is the worst environmental option. The methane it produces is a potent greenhouse gas, 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Consequently, the Landfill Directive calls for a 50 percent reduction of the biodegradable municipal waste that is dumped at increasing costs. Energy recovery from biomass and waste is going to play an important role ...
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What is the best way to manage urban waste?
Towns and cities generate huge volumes of waste that are often disposed of as landfill. In a new study, researchers explain that sorting urban waste into organic and inorganic streams, which can be turned into energy and fertiliser, offers a much more efficient and environmentally friendly solution. Each year, 1.3 billion tonnes of waste is thrown away in the EU. In several European countries, ...
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EPA Comfort Letter Provides Fuel Customers Added Assurance
An Environmental Protection Agency Comfort Letter recently issued regarding WastAway’s SE3™ fuel provides users solid assurances of regulatory compliance as a non-waste material, compatibility with fossil fuels, and significantly low levels of contamination. “This means the EPA concurs with our product’s capability to more cleanly utilize coal fuel resources,” said ...
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Energy Vision Publishes New Report Documenting Renewable Natural Gas as the Solution to a Major U.S. Transportation Challenge
A newly released publication, Renewable Natural Gas (RNG): The Solution to a Major Transportation Challenge, reports that the use of renewable natural gas as a vehicle fuel is a technologically viable alternative to relying exclusively on petroleum-based fuels for transportation. The new publication was prepared by Energy Vision, a noted, national, New York-based energy research organization, and ...
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