Waste-to-Energy News

Cadent and project 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 consortium including Cadent has scooped ...

Nov. 12, 2017

By Advanced Plasma Power (APP)

GSTC  is hosting its annual conference Octobeer 16-19, 2016 in Vancouver, Canada.  GSTC has now posted a preliminary 2016 Gasification and Syngas Technologies Conference Program on the GSTC website at www.gasification-syngas.org.  In recognition of our new strategic partnership with The Methanol Institute, the 2016 conference program contains sessions on methanol production and ...

Jun. 2, 2016

By Global Syngas Technologies Council

Bio4Energy researchers have won funds for carrying out scientific studies on reducing soot formation in biomass gasification for making biofuels, as well as two projects on water purification in developing countries. The prestigious Swedish ...

Nov. 3, 2015

By Bio4Energy

MagneGas Corporation ("MagneGas" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MNGA) a leading technology company that counts among its inventions a patented process that converts liquid waste into MagneGas fuel, announced today that the Company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") with Green Gas Supply, LLC ("Green Gas") to expand into Louisiana and Texas with a $550,000 Plasma-Arc Gasification system ...

Jul. 23, 2015

By MagneGas Corporation

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 ...

Jun. 8, 2015

By GPT Waste Management Ltd

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. 8, 2015

By GPT Waste Management Ltd

A very interesting presentation was given by Dr Geraint Evans of the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI). The following topics were covered: UK energy challenge to 2050 Meeting 2050 decarbonisation targets How bioenergy fits into the energy scene A background into a proposed Humber Waste Gas ...

May 20, 2015

By Energy Institute (EI)

The Gasification Technologies Conference (GTC) is issuing a Call For Presentations for the  2015 Gasification Technologies Conference (October 11-14, 2015 in Colorado Springs, Colorado).  GTC is particularly interested in the following subjects: Biomass and ...

Jan. 17, 2015

By Global Syngas Technologies Council

WBA attended the roundtable on Bioenergy Issues and Options - jointly organized by Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) and the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM). WBA was represented at the event by: Dr. Heinz Kopetz, President, WBA Prof. Sribas C Bhattacharya, Vice President, WBA Dr. Benard Muok, Board member, WBA Ms. Karin ...

Dec. 4, 2014

By World Bioenergy Association (WBA)

GE’s Distributed Power business, Western Energy Systems (WES) and San Francisco, California, U.S.A.-based Phoenix Energy have signed an agreement for GE to supply an undetermined number of ecomagination qualified Jenbacher gas engines to power a series of bioenergy plants that Phoenix Energy plans to build around the state. Under terms of the agreement, GE and WES, GE’s authorized ...

Oct. 20, 2014

By Diesel & Gas Turbine Worldwide

ElectraTherm, a leader in distributed, waste heat to power generation, commissioned its second Green Machine at an integrated wood products mill in Wallowa, Oregon. Together, the two machines operate off the waste heat of a biomass boiler to generate emission-free electricity. Integrated Biomass Resources (IBR) processes small-diameter timber into various wood products, such as firewood and ...

Sep. 16, 2014

By ElectraTherm

Advanced Plasma Power (APP), the advanced waste to energy and fuels company, today announces that it has signed a contract as the technology provider for a new 20MW waste to energy plant in the Port of Hamilton, Canada being built by Port Fuels & Materials Services, Inc.  The contract, valued at nearly £20 million, represents the company’s first order for a full-scale ...

Jun. 8, 2014

By Advanced Plasma Power (APP)

It’s great to be here with you today and a fantastic opportunity to hear from the energy from waste sector. The Conservative Manifesto in 2010 pledged that government would work towards a ‘zero waste’ economy recognising that waste is a valuable resource, not least as an important source of energy, is key to that vision. Discussions at the conference so far have been very ...

Mar. 2, 2014

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Nexterra Systems Corp.(www.nexterra.co.uk), a global leader in energy-from-waste gasification systems, announced today that it has signed a contract with MWH to supply a biomass gasification system for the Birmingham Bio Power Ltd. (BBPL) renewable energy power plant in Tyseley, UK. Developed by Carbonarius, the plant will be capable of producing over 10 MW of ...

Dec. 11, 2013

By Nexterra Systems Corp.

Waste2Tricity Ltd (W2T), the cutting edge structured solutions provider for the waste to energy sector, today announces it has negotiated a $1.5 million investment into Waste2Tricity International (Thailand) Ltd. The investment comes from a Thai investment consortium and Age of Reason Foundation, a founding investor in AFC Energy PLC and a major shareholder in Waste2Tricity Ltd. The Investors ...

Oct. 28, 2013

By Waste2Tricity

The Energy Department today recognized the nation’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol production at INEOS Bio’s Indian River BioEnergy Center in Vero Beach, Florida. Developed through a joint venture between INEOS Bio and New Planet Energy, the project uses a unique hybrid of gasification and fermentation technology – originally developed with Energy Department support ...

Jul. 30, 2013

By US Department of Energy

The MILENA technology to produce green gas, electricity or fluid fuels from waste and biomass, developed by leading Dutch energy institute ECN, will be applied on a global scale in the next few years. ECN has signed a license agreement with Dutch company Royal Dahlman, which will implement this technology in various countries and across many different projects. With innovative MILENA ...

May 23, 2013

By Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)

GE (NYSE: GE) and Greenwich, Conn.,-based Green Waste Energy (GWE) today announced they have signed a frame agreement for GE to supply an undetermined number of ...

May 14, 2013

By General Electric

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. 9, 2013

By NNFCC

Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMX) has entered into an agreement with an undisclosed U.S.-based company to assess the feasibility and optimal uses of SES' gasification technology for the production of valuable 'green' chemicals.   The agreement calls for SES to lead an engineering study, commissioned and funded by the undisclosed U.S. company, that will define an optimal use ...

Jan. 14, 2013

By Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. (SES)