Synthesis Gas – By: Dr. Aecio D’Silva, CEO, Moura Technologies and Dr. John Kyndt (Head Scientist of the Renewable Energy Program at MT – Advanced Energy Creations Lab).
Some of the technologies described in our previous blogs focus on producing ethanol through synthesis gas (syngas). In addition to municipal solid waste, forestry and construction waste can be transformed into energy that way.
As it is well know, our planet earth has now more than 7 billion residents, and we produce a lot of trash.
In the U.S. alone, each person produces 4.6 pounds of trash each day, and 132 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) were discarded in landfills in 2009
There are modules that process 120,000 tons of forest residues and / or urban municipal solid producing 42.5 million liters of ethanol and methanol annually.
These systems are designed to process waste and garbage autonomously or could operate integrated with AquaFuelsPonics systems that consist of modulus which generate 1500 metric tons of fish and up to 3500 tons of vegetables annually.
In addition such integrated system will also generate biofuels as synthesis gas and green chemicals produced from aquaculture and hydroponics solid waste.
The modularity of these systems allows sustainable growth simply by duplicating the current facilities without the need to initiate new projects. Each module can work with individual autonomy or coupled in series during scale up.
The independent biorefineries that use this cutting edge technology in their waste to fuel production will have valuable tools to reducing the amount of waste that goes to landfills, known to cause serious environmental challenges. It’s a green investment that will give them a competitive edge and increase their environmental stewardship.
Synthesis Gas – Solution to the Problem of Accumulation of Waste in Big Cities
Imagine the advantages synthesis gas production systems like these can offer as treatment to the problem of accumulation of waste in big cities. For example, currently, the city of São Paulo, Brazil collects more than 15,000 metric tons of garbage per day.
This volume is currently transported to existing landfills which in a few years will be filled to capacity, if nothing is done in the short term. All this could be producing energy in its various forms rather than being polluting our soil, air and water resources and causing constant headache for municipalities.
Transforming our everyday municipal, forestry and construction waste into fuels and green chemicals is an important step to have a cleaner environment and at the same time provides another instrument in the struggle for independence from fossil oil. In other words, producing clean energy from garbage that has been produced using fossil oil is a first step in the right direction.
Who knows in the near future if algae, as well city garbage, hospital waste and cellulose may be fueling your car, the bus that takes you to work and the jet that takes you far away.
Related links:
- Municipal Waste: Fueling Our Cars?
- Municipal Waste: Producing Everything That is Currently Produced by Oil
- Flue Gas for Algae Cultivation: Curse or Blessing?
- Algae For Waste Water Treatment And BioFuel Production: A Double Winner
- Need For New Chemical Catalysts for the Conversion Of Syngas To Green Fuels
- Developing GE Thermophilic Bacteria for Syngas to Fuel Conversion
- Algae after Lipids: Plasma Arc Based Gasification to Green Fuels
- Energia Renovável: Gaseificação dos Resíduos Domésticos
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