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Blue Sphere Breaks Ground on Waste-to-Energy Project

March 26, 2015April 1, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Waste-to-energy company Blue Sphere has broken ground on both its first waste-to-energy project and new US headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. The facility will produce 5.2 MW of clean energy from food waste that would normally end up in local landfills. That electricity will then be sold to Duke Energy ... Read more »

Pretreatment Doubles Food Waste Throughput of Anaerobic Digesters

March 24, 2015March 23, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Pretreating food waste with a combination of steam and pressure, in a machine known as an autoclave, will double the throughput of an anaerobic digester and significantly reduce the amount of ammonia concentrations by denaturing proteins, according to research by AeroThermal Group. For the plant operator, this means that by ... Read more »

Waste-to-Energy Facility Comes to Tennessee

March 6, 2015April 8, 2015 by Jennifer Hermes

PHG Energy will provide Lebanon, Tennessee, with a downdraft gasification plant that will convert up to 64 tons of blended waste wood, scrap tires and sewer sludge per day into a gas fuel that will generate up to 300Kw of electricity. The waste-to-energy plant is expected to keep more than ... Read more »

Dow Helps Divert 6,000 Pounds of Waste from Landfill

February 18, 2015February 17, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A pilot program for plastic waste, co-sponsored by Dow Chemical, diverted about 6,000 pounds of typically non-recycled items from landfills in three months. Other Energy Bag pilot program co-sponsors include the Flexible Packaging Association, Republic Services, Agilyx, Reynolds Consumer Products and the city of Citrus Heights, California. The program explored ... Read more »

Waste-to-Energy Firm Target Ports Sector

February 6, 2015February 6, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

UK-based company SEaB Energy says it’s focusing on waste-to-energy opportunities in the port sector. The company’s Flexibuster, a self-contained anaerobic digester, processes food and organic waste, turning it into biogas, which is then used to generate electricity and heat. In addition, Flexibuster also provides a source of organic fertilizer income ... Read more »

Gasification Plant Turns Wood Waste to Energy

January 16, 2015January 22, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Falcon Waste Development Land Company, part of the Larkfleet Group, and React Energy have submitted a planning application to build an energy recovery facility in Clay Cross, Derbyshire, UK. The two companies are partners in Clay Cross Biomass Limited. The company has been established specifically to develop the Clay Cross ... Read more »

Power Plant Saves 1.3 Million Gallons of Water per Day

January 15, 2015January 15, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Covanta’s Delaware Valley energy-from-waste facility in Chester, Pennsylvania, has saved 1.3 million gallons a day from local water supplies by installing General Electric’s RePAK water reuse technology in the power plant’s cooling tower. GE honored Covanta with the Return on Environment award to recognize the company for its reductions in ... Read more »

Zero-Waste Program Cuts CO2 Emissions by 18,000 Tons

December 23, 2014December 23, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Big Heart Pet Brands’ Milk-Bone bakery in Buffalo, New York, has sent zero waste to landfill for five years, reducing its CO2 emissions by more than 18,000 tons. Since 2008, Milk-Bone has recycled more than 21 million pounds of materials via its zero landfill initiative. This has saved more than ... Read more »

Covanta Assumes Operations of Waste-to-Energy Plant

December 16, 2014December 15, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Covanta has assumed operations of the Pinellas County Resource Recovery Facility located in St. Petersburg, Florida. In addition to operations, Covanta has also commenced a number of capital projects to improve operations of the waste-to-energy facility. The Pinellas County Resource Recovery Facility provides sustainable waste management services to residents of ... Read more »

PowerCell Converts Toxic Waste to Electricity

December 2, 2014December 2, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Swedish fuel cell company PowerCell is leading a project to convert toxic waste from olive oil production into electricity. Biogas2PEM-FC is an European Union-funded project coordinated by PowerCell with partners from Spain, Greece, Sweden and the UK. It includes a pilot plant in Andalucía, Spain. The waste from olive oil ... Read more »

Bluesphere Acquires Lithium-Ion Fast Charge Technology

December 2, 2014December 1, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Bluesphere, a clean energy company that develops, manages and owns waste-to-energy projects, announced today that its technology division has acquired the rights for fast-charge battery technology. The company says in the coming weeks it will provide full disclosure and information on this technology, which, it hopes, will create the initial ... Read more »

Waste-to-Energy Plant Cuts Nestlé Factory’s Costs, Carbon

November 19, 2014November 19, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Nestlé’s on-site anaerobic digestion plant is supplying about 8 percent of the factory’s electricity demand and has eliminated its solid waste handling costs one year after commissioning. The on-site bio-energy plant was designed and built by Clearfleau for Nestlé’s Fawdon confectionery factory, near Newcastle, UK. In addition to the financial ... Read more »

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