Projects Under Development
Air Products, WTE, Tees Valley Renewable Energy Facility
Air Products has the right to use Alter NRG's proprietary Westinghouse Plasma Gasification technology at it's proposed 49 MW Tees Valley Renewable Energy Facility in North East England. Air Products has access to Alter NRG’s technology for five sites in North America and the European Union. The Tees Valley Site License represents the first of the five licenses.
The Site License represents another step for both companies toward the construction and commissioning of a safe, reliable 950 tonne per day facility which will convert pre-processed waste to baseload renewable power through a combined cycle power configuration. A combined cycle power configuration, which would be the system employed in the proposed Tess Valley project, has the potential to generate 50% or greater power output than capturing waste heat (as done for incineration) given the same amount of waste.
Koochiching Development Authority (KDA) – Coronal WTE Project, International Falls, Minnesota
The Koochiching Development Authority (“KDA”) has contracted with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for the release of US$2.5 million in funding from the State of Minnesota for a proposed plasma gasification facility using Alter NRG’s proprietary Westinghouse Plasma Technology. The State funding is expected to be matched from the US Department of Energy. The proposed project which is to be located in Koochiching County in Northern Minnesota is called the Renewable Energy Clean Air Project (RECAP). The State and Federal grant monies will be used to further develop segments of the project including preliminary design, permitting and preconstruction services.
Coronal LLC, a private company located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the developer and project manager of RECAP. In this capacity Coronal LLC has guided the RECAP work effort through feasibility study and now is coordinating the preliminary design segment of the work effort. Coronal LLC focuses on development of plasma gasification facilities using the Westinghouse Plasma technology and is advancing other projects in North America and worldwide.
The Plasma Gasification Waste-to-Energy facility is expected to gasify a variety of feedstocks, including municipal waste, regional woody biomass waste and biosolids from the waste water treatment facility. RECAP is intending to convert the waste feedstocks into syngas and then steam or electricity for local area use.
Fuel Frontiers, Inc. (FFI), Muhlenberg County CTL Project, Kentucky
Fuel Frontiers, Inc. (FFI), through its parent corporation Nuclear Solutions, Inc., has contracted with Westinghouse Plasma Corporation (WPC) for the WPC Plasma Gasifier to be designed and incorporated in the FFI Muhlenberg County, Kentucky CTL (Coal-to-Liquid) Diesel Fuel Production Plant. The plant will operate at coal feedstock levels of 400 to 450 tons per day, producing in the range of 72 million gallons per year of ultra-clean diesel fuel. FFI has Letters of Intent from Phoenix Coal Corporation for plant locations for the CTL Ultra-Clean Synthetic Diesel production facility close to Phoenix Coal producing areas. At the same time, FFI has Letters of intent with Phoenix Coal for coal supply. FFI plans to work with Stone & Webster Ltd of Milton Keynes, England to do the design integration of the WPC Plasma Gasifier and the Fischer Tropsch system and to design the gas cleanup system and balance of plant systems.Stone & Webster Ltd, in concert with WPC, will assist FFI in selecting the Fischer Tropsch system supplier. Stone & Webster Ltd and its parent corporation, Shaw Stone & Webster, will assist FFI in selecting the best plant site for the Diesel Fuel Production Plant. FFI anticipates plant startup in year 2010. Geoplasma's St. Lucie WTE Project
Geoplasma's WTE plant in St. Lucie Florida received its final Air Construction Permit for a planned 24 megawatt energy from waste project. The proposed project will be using alter NRG's proprietary Westinghouse Plasma technology. The project is expected to process approximately 660 tons per day of feedstock consisting primarily of municipal solid waste from St. Lucie County, plus tires adn other permitted feedstocks and convert this inot steam and/or power.Geoplasma is a subsidiary of the Jacoby Group which has business interests in Real Estate, Health Care, Education as well as clean energy and has been advancing St. Lucie and other energy projects since 2003.
Green Power Systems, WTE project, Tallahassee, Florida
Renewable Fuels of Tallahassee LLC, a subsidiary of Jacksonville-based Green Power Systems LLC will install a system in Tallahassee to convert municipal solid waste into clean energy, including electricity.
Renewable Fuels will install a WPC designed plasma gasification system that uses WPC plasma torches to convert landfill waste into syngas, which will be cleaned prior to the boilers for a net electrical production of approximately 30 MWh.
Sun Energy WTE Project, New Orleans
Sun Energy is intending to build a large WTE facility in New Orleans that will use WPC plasma gasification technology to convert 2,500 tpd of garbage to electricity. The company has acquired a site located in the industrial sector of eastern New Orleans and is near completion of its environmental permit applications."We think it's a good technology, the actual process is really pretty good" said Karen Wimpelberg, board president of the Alliance for Affordable Energy, a consumer-focused group that has take a close look at the gasification process (Source: The Times Picayune, October 14, 2007)