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ABSL provides design and support services to engineering contractors and third-party developers of advanced biofuel facilities. They also own and operate the world''s first plant that converts household waste into bio-substitute natural gas (bioSNG) through gasification.
Located in Swindon, UK, the ABSL demonstration facility converts 8,000 tonnes of waste into 22 GWh of gas each year using RadGas technology.
RadGas is a specialized technology that converts waste and biomass materials into synthesis gas integrating a fluid bed gasifier, direct current (dc) plasma furnace, and heat recovery boiler. It offers a highly efficient, reliable process, producing a synthesis gas (syngas) free of tars and particulates.
Hatch began its relationship with ABSL advising on the operation of the dc plasma furnace in Swindon.
The strategic alliance will see Hatch develop a design and delivery plan for a commercial dc scale furnace specifically for RadGas, as well as offer the integration of RadGas with other product technologies to deliver end-to-end solutions to the market.
ABSL''s RadGas technology has tremendous potential as a GHG-reducing solution for turning waste into low-carbon products. We are proud to contribute our well-honed furnace technology and unique ability to engineer and deliver integrated, technologically advanced, and complex facilities, said Robert Francki, Global Managing Director of Energy at Hatch.
Hatch is an established technology development, global engineering, project execution, and professional services firm, providing services from project conception through implementation and operations support.
Hatch will bring its industry-leading plasma furnace technology and experience in designing end-to-end gasification solutions to complement ABSL and the RadGas technology line-up.
Hatch has global experience with electric smelting furnaces throughout its sixty-eight-year history. Many of the facilities implemented with Hatch furnace technology are unique, and customized to the specific application.
The RadGas requirements fit well within Hatch''s range of experience.
We see this strategic alliance as an exciting step to building a long-term partnership that will underpin delivering a robust technology today and long into the future. Hatch''s gasification expertise and technology implementation heritage bring world-class delivery capability to our RadGas offering, said Nathan Burkey, Executive Chairman of ABSL.
A consortium led by Swindon based waste to energy plasma gasification specialist, Advanced Plasma Power (APP) has secured £6 million of additional funding under Ofgem’s Network Innovation Competition (NIC) to build a facility to produce biomethane from household waste.
Some £5.4 million of funding from the NIC and a further £600,000 from the National Grid will complement £11 million secured from the Department for Transport in September by the consortium.
The NIC awards funds to projects which demonstrate environmental benefits, cost reductions and security of supply. As well as National Grid and APP, the consortium also includes gas distribution company Wales & West Utilities, clean energy firm Progressive Energy, and CNG Services, a company which provides gas for use in vehicles.
The £5.4 million, together with £600k contributed by National Grid itself, will be used will be used to construct a plant in Swindon, said to be the first of its kind in the world, that will take residual waste and convert it into biomethane, using APP’s Gasplasma technology.
Once operational the facility is expected to divert 7500 tonnes of refuse derived fuel from landfill to produce 1.5m kilos of substitute natural gas annually - enough to fuel 75 heavy goods vehicles or 1500 homes.
APP said that substitute natural gas can be used interchangeably with natural gas in heavy goods vehicles and is significantly less carbon-intensive and polluting than diesel.
Construction of the plant will begin in 2016 and the consortium said that it has already identified local customers for the product and suppliers for the feedstock.
“Biomethane created from household waste offers an environmentally friendly solution to fuel vehicles, homes and businesses,” said Rolf Stein, CEO of Advanced Plasma Power. “This project has a key role to play in providing a renewable, secure and cost effective source of natural gas in line with government policy,” he added.
David Parkin, Director of Network Strategy at National Grid, added: “The funding will allow us to press ahead with the construction of a new state-of-the-art demonstration plant, that will be capable of producing biomethane from household waste.
“We believe biomethane could eventually meet 40% of UK domestic gas demand, with customers benefiting from renewable energy being delivered directly through the gas network,” he concluded.
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ADVANCED BIOFUEL SOLUTIONS (ABSL) has signed an agreement with biofuels supplier Greenergy to construct up to five plants in the UK that will turn domestic waste into vehicle fuel.
Design work is under way for a first plant planned for Ellesmere Port near Liverpool that would convert 133,000 t/y of waste into hydrogen or methane for use in vehicles. The partners, who have signed a joint development agreement, say the first plant will begin commercial production in 2025. They have not announced the locations or production schedules for the remaining plants. The plant will use waste known as refuse-derived fuel (RDF), which is a pre-treated feedstock produced from non-recyclable household waste.
The heart of the plant is a gasification process called RadGas that ABSL has developed. This uses an oxy-steam fluidised bed to convert waste into what the company describes as a "dirty syngas". This is then fed to a plasma furnace where the tars are reformed, producing a cleaner gas and an inert vitrified slag. The syngas is then filtered, scrubbed and polished. Steam is injected in a water-gas shift reaction to produce hydrogen and carbon dioxide. At this point the hydrogen can be removed and ultimately used for fuel, or passed over catalysts to produce methane, which again can be used as a fuel. The resulting carbon dioxide is captured and can be sold for industrial use.
ABSL is currently commissioning a commercial demonstration plant in Swindon that is set to begin production in Q1 next year. It will convert around 10,000 t of local waste into biomethane that will be fed into the grid and used to fuel buses and trucks. It will also produce 6,000 t of CO2 that will be liquefied and sold to industry and 400 t of vitrified ash for use as aggregate. The company says that the process has been operated for more than 3,500 hours at pilot scale, and describes it as omnivorous due its ability to process a wide variety of feedstocks including municipal waste, dried biomass, shredded wood, tyre crumb, and used cooking oil.
Commenting on the new partnership with Greenergy, ABSL Chairman Nathan Burkey said: "Today''s announcement enables ABSL to accelerate significantly the speed and scale of the deployment of our RadGas technology. The partnership brings together cutting-edge technology with the experience of large-scale fuel production and distribution to produce low-carbon fuels for transport critical to achieving net zero."
The region around Ellesmere Port has numerous waste plants in operation and under development. These include the combined heat and power plant operated by Viridor in Runcorn that has the capacity to burn up to 1.1m t/y of RDF; and the 54 ha Protos industrial hub in Ellesmere Port that already has facilities to recycle waste wood and produce power from waste wood, and plans for plants that will produce electricity, methane and hydrogen from wastes including unrecyclable plastics.
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