Waste to Energy Technology
Major PES Benefits
1. Maximum system up-time due to:
- process improvements inside the gasifier
- extensive systems redundancy throughout the process
2. Proven Experience Designing, Building and Operating:
- Our Engineers not only have decades of experience with modern gasification techniques, but also extensive prior experience with projects the likes of:
- NASA,
- Bectel - Nuclear Power,
- University research,
- and even the Alaskan pipeline.
High Temperature Pyrogenic Gasification
NOVA Energy Corporation developed and licensed to PES an advanced gasification technology which produces a synthesis fuel gas chemically similar to natural gas utilizing hydrocarbon waste streams as the feedstock in a safe, reliable and environmentally acceptable manner that will establish an important recycling and waste-to-energy technology for the 21st century. The basis of the NEC technology and patents is high temperature pyrogenic gasification of a full range of hydrocarbonous waste streams in an oxygen free environment which produces a clean burning synthesis fuel gas for commercial uses.
The NEC technology was demonstrated in Redwood City, California with the 1st generation pilot plant utilizing a 50 ton per day gasifier (model X-50) beginning in 1971, then a 2nd generation 75 ton per day gasifier (model X-75) was constructed as a modular design and operated as a continuing research facility until the early 1990s. The X-75 was eventually adapted as the standard sized gasifier module and it was used to produce steam to drive a steam turbine/generator to generate electric power that was sold under an agreement to Pacific Gas and Electric Company. During operations of the pilot facilities emissions were tested and found to meet the very stringent requirements of the California Environmental Protection Agency, CEPA and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, BAAQMD.
The clean burning fuel obtained from the PES pyrogenic gasification plants can be used to fuel electrical generating facilities or used as a fuel gas for other industrial processes.
PES’s waste plants utilize any hydrocarbonous waste stream such as MSW, tires, waste oil, waste solvents, wood waste, etc.
See a short video special done by the British Broadcasting Company on the original Redwood City Plant. (Click Here)
