Waste-to-Energy Plant in Oregon to Use Plasma Enhanced Melter Technology
InEnTec, Bend, Ore., USA, reports that its Plasma Enhanced Melter (PEM) technology will be used at a new commercial plasma gasification project at the Columbia Ridge Landfill in Arlington, Ore. The project will be designed, built, and operated by S4 Energy Solutions, a joint venture between InEnTec and Waste Management of Houston, Texas. The new facility at Waste Management''s Columbia Ridge Landfill will convert municipal solid waste into clean fuels and renewable energy using the PEM technology. The project is expected to be completed by year end.
The PEM gasification technology developed by InEnTec over the past 13 years can use virtually any waste product as feedstock. The technology produces an ultra pure synthesis gas (syngas), which can be converted into clean energy products such as hydrogen and liquid transportation fuels such as ethanol, methanol, and synthetic diesel. Producing ultra pure syngas is critical for the successful conversion of waste to liquid fuels using the newly developed catalytic technologies that are emerging for renewable transportation fuels.
InEnTec currently has two joint ventures in place: S4 Energy Solutions and InEnTec Chemical. S4 Energy Solutions focuses on solid waste (commercial, industrial and residential); and InEnTec Chemical focuses on the hazardous waste and the chemical industry. Global Plasma Technology has operated a PEM system in Taiwan for four years, converting medical and industrial waste into clean synthesis gas used to generate clean electric power.
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