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Greater compliance fears mean more cities, counties and municipalities and plant facilities are faced with greater air pollution control compliance.
When conversing about publicly controlled facilities such as Publicly Owned Treatment Works ("POTW's"), Wastewater Treatment Systems, or City Landfills they all present excellent opportunities to reduce their air pollution emissions as well as providing additional energy revenue streams.
Many of the facilities aforementioned may have valuable gases that can be recovered and piped to clean, environmentally-friendly combination thermal oxidizer cogeneration micro turbine energy system. This solves the treat of potential environmental liabilities (air pollution emissions) and provides a new profit stream simultaneously.
Following preliminary feasibility analysis, engineering and design the facility can look at many available financing packages that will not add to the facilities liability, yet would provide a valuable new revenue stream.Partnerships are often offered for facilities that meet the criteria by emitting enough emissions to offset equipment costs.
At the heart of the system is a thermal oxidizer which oxidizes the "waste" or emitted fuels, these fuels are processed to comply with Environmental Protection Agency Title V permits. These air pollution controlled emissions are converted to thermal energy which is required for the power generation phase of the equipment.
Waste-to-energy equipment package will comply with 98% destruction efficiency by the use of thermal oxidation removing your facility's emissions and other Hazardous Air Pollutants or Greenhouse Gases and converting the thermal heat generated into electrical energy. A Thermal Oxidizer and Waste to Energy Recovery Unit can be placed atthousands of applications and locations.
Biogases that aregenerated from municipally owned landfills or wastewater treatment plants have very low BTU content or heating values, ranging from 550-650 BTU's per cubic foot, ultra low values may require the use of concentrators. When these waste-gases are burned as fuel they are able to generate the necessary thermal energy to spin the micro turbine and generate electricity as "renewable" power for the facility's use or resale to the electric grid.
Low Waste Gas to Energy Recovery Systems are designed and engineered for specific applications. Systems can be engineered precisely to fit your facility's application, look for OEMs that know what will work for your facility as well as those systems that don't.
Most facilities will want a entire turn-key system from an OEM provider that will include design, engineering, project management, commissioning, as well as any financing options. Additionally, OEMs may be interested in owning and operating the Low Waste Heat Power Facility. For these conditions, there would be no investment required from the facility.
Information that will be required to determine the type of equipment and efficiency of the system.
Type of waste-gas being oxidized, flared or vented (toluene, acetone, methane, bio-gas, landfill, etc.).
Chromatograph Fuel analysis providing the Btu's (heating value expressed as methane), the structure of the gas and any impurities such as carbon dioxide, hydrogen, hydrogen sulfide, and any other hydrocarbons.
Total amount of waste-gas available, from total emitting sources, at the facility.
Armed with the information provided, you are ready to seek an equipment provider that will work with you on the design and the right equipment to turn your waste-gas into viable reusable electrical energy.
For more information about Waste to Energy Recovery Systems, please visit: American Environmental Fabrication & Supply
