Waste-to-Energy News
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Atila Mellilo new CEO of Cambi
From 1st March 2015, Atila Mellilo is the new CEO of Cambi. Current CEO, Per Lillebø, will assume the role of Chairman of Board of Directors. The Cambi Board of Directors has named Atila Mellilo as the new CEO of the company effective immediately. Mellilo has the last two years held the position of COO at Cambi and has achieved wide insight and solid knowledge of Cambi as the world leader ...
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Porvair Wins Major Chinese Gasification Project
International leader in high performance filtration products, Porvair Filtration Group has won a major new Chinese contract for the filtration of syngas produced from coal gasification. Porvair Filtration Group has been offering advancements in gas filtration to the industry for more than 20 years, and the signing of an agreement with a Chinese state oil company represents another significant ...
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Power Partners licenses ECO-MAX adsorption chillers to Bry-Air Asia
Power Partners, Inc. of Athens, GA, USA and Bry-Air (Asia), headquartered in India have signed a license agreement for Bry-Air (Asia) to manufacture and sell Power Partners’ ECO-MAX brand adsorption chillers in India and other markets. This agreement means that Bry-Air (Asia) can further expand its broad product portfolio to include closed-loop adsorption products. Under the agreement, ...
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Pioneering project develops new process to recycle fuel cell components
A pioneering recycling process to recover high-value materials from waste fuel cells has been developed in a collaborative project between resource recovery specialist Axion Consulting, Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells Limited and Technical Fibre Products (TFP). Funded by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, the objective of the Recover project is to establish the technical and economic ...
By Axion Group
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Sulzer Further Strengthens its Position in Service Activities
Sulzer acquires the business of InterWeld Inc Ltd which generates sales in a single-digit million range Swiss Francs (CHF). With this acquisition, the Chemtech division will enhance the competitiveness of its tower field service activities by adding the offering of a full range of automated weld overlay services to the oil and gas as well as the power market. On January 8, Sulzer agreed to ...
By Sulzer Ltd.
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EPA, San Jose, recycler celebrate food waste to energy conversion
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and City of San Jose will celebrate the city’s successful food-waste-to-energy program at a tour of the nation’s first large-scale commercial anaerobic digestion facility, privately owned and operated by Zero Waste Energy Development Company. “Thanksgiving is a great time to focus on reducing food waste, the largest single ...
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Ed Miliband Visits Leading Green Technology Companies
Global green technology leaders Tetronics International and Advanced Plasma Power (APP) were today visited by Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband, as he recognised the important role environmental companies have to play in driving UK economic growth. During the visit, Miliband learnt of the Swindon based companies’ successes and plans for the future. Tetronics’ technology, which uses ...
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ANDRITZ to supply new waste-to-energy power plant to Riikinvoima Oy, Finland
International technology Group ANDRITZ has been selected by the local utility company Riikinvoima Oy to supply a waste-to-energy power plant to Leppävirta, Finland. Start-up is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2016. The new plant is designed to treat 145,000 tons of waste per year coming from eight local waste management companies. The design capacity is 16 megawatts for electricity and ...
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Introducing the IMPCO Reserve Fuel System
Many forklift truck LPG cylinders nowadays are single valve and have no fuel level indicator. When will you exchange the cylinders? Exchange too early and risk wasting gas and costing money, leave it for too long and risk coming to a complete stand-still, disrupting productivity and again costing money. On average some 10-15% of gas is still in the cylinder when returned to the LPG distributor! ...
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Additional Electricity Generated With the Same Input With ORC Technology
New ORC plant from EnviTec Biogas put into operation Lohne, 25th September 2014 – More electricity with the same input? That's what the Organic Rankine Cycle technology (ORC) employed by the Lower Saxon biogas plant manufacturer EnviTec Biogas can do. Biogas plant operators in particular can profit from the procedure that the listed company already uses successfully throughout Europe. ORC ...
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Additional electricity generated with the same input with ORC technology
More electricity with the same input? That's what the Organic Rankine Cycle technology (ORC) employed by the Lower Saxon biogas plant manufacturer EnviTec Biogas can do. Biogas plant operators in particular can profit from the procedure that the listed company already uses successfully throughout Europe. ORC technology was originally developed for operation of steam turbines using an alternative ...
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New approval procedure in Germany
Simplified approval procedure for smaller and middle-sized "waste to energy“ systems. In article 3 of the law dated 23.10.2007 (BGBl. I 2470) the 4. BimSchV has been changed as follows: bb) column 2: ãa) Systems for disposal or recycling of solid, liquid or gaseous (in tanks), not hazardous wastes or landfill gas with inflammable components by thermal processes, particularly ...
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Running on waste heat
Original story at MIT News It’s estimated that more than half of U.S. energy — from vehicles and heavy equipment, for instance — is wasted as heat. Mostly, this waste heat simply escapes into the air. But that’s beginning to change, thanks to thermoelectric innovators such as MIT’s Gang Chen. Thermoelectric materials convert temperature differences into electric ...
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Energent licenses the Variable Phase Turbine technology to Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. for waste heat recovery power systems and geothermal power systems.
Santa Ana, California, July 14, 2014 - Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (“MES”) and Energent Corporation, a member company of Cryogenic Industries, announced a licensing agreement for Energent’s Variable Phase Turbine technology. The Variable Phase Turbine is applied to power production from waste heat and geothermal sources of energy. Additionally the technology ...
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Launch of Small Scale Waste-to-Energy Converter receives a boost from the Government of Canada
Eco Waste Solutions (EWS), a manufacturer of thermal waste conversion and energy recovery technologies, is pleased to announce that it has received financial support from the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). NRC-IRAP is Canada's premier innovation assistance program for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In addition to ...
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Launch of Small Scale WTE Converter receives a boost from the Government of Canada
Eco Waste Solutions (EWS), a manufacturer of thermal waste conversion and energy recovery technologies, is pleased to announce that it has received financial support from the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). NRC-IRAP is Canada's premier innovation assistance program for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In addition to ...
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Ener-Core celebrates ribbon-cutting of its first operational powerstation in Europe
ENER-CORE, INC. (OTCQB: ENCR), whose proprietary Gradual Oxidation technology and equipment generates clean electric power from low quality and waste gases, is pleased to announce that on June 5th the company and Attero, the waste management company in the Netherlands, convened a ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the operation of its first installation in the Netherlands. A video of the ...
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Texas Gas Town Considers Banning Fracking
Natural gas money has been good to this Texas city: It has new parks, a new golf course and miles of grassy soccer fields. The business district is getting a makeover, and the airport is bustling, too. For more than a decade, Denton has drawn its lifeblood from the huge gas reserves that lie beneath its streets. The gas fields have produced a billion dollars in mineral wealth and pumped more ...
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Green fuel: Körting as a partner for the construction of bio-ethanol plants
Supported by Körting, Beta Renewables in Crescentino, Italy, belonging to the Mossi & Ghisolfi consortium, is in the process of constructing its first large-scale industrial plant for the production of bio-ethanol from agricultural waste. More and more companies are profiting internationally from the advantages which these plants of the „second generation“ for the special ...
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A New Way to Harness Waste Heat
Original story at MIT News Vast amounts of excess heat are generated by industrial processes and by electric power plants; researchers around the world have spent decades seeking ways to harness some of this wasted energy. Most such efforts have focused on thermoelectric devices, solid-state materials that can produce electricity from a temperature gradient, but the efficiency of such devices is ...
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