Waste2Energy Holdings Inc. By Michael Sweeney of Waterville Research

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“Garbage Becomes a Renewable Resource”

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Waste2Energy Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: WTEZE) competes in the growing worldwide market for waste-to-energy systems that simultaneously destroy waste and generate green energy. Waste2Energy designs, builds and installs waste-to-energy plants that generate "Renewable Green Power," converting biomass or other solid waste streams traditionally destined for landfill into clean renewable energy. W2e™ plants are scalable, modular, environment friendly and robust enough to operate in remote environments. W2e™ provides customized engineering solutions that will enable its customers to convert biomass and other solid waste streams traditionally destined for landfill into clean renewable energy. 

Waste2Energy’s Dumfries plant in Scotland (picture) for their client Scotgen has been opened. Known as a Thermal Treatment Plant, it will operate constantly all year round and is licensed to take 60,000 tonnes per annum of hazardous and non-hazardous waste. The process will utilize the waste heat to generate steam which will in turn drive a steam turbine driven generator capable of electricity. The plant will be capable of dealing with the waste from a town or small city of 250,000 people.

Based on existing agreements that have been signed by its marketing partner(s), it is anticipated that W2e will be required to supply 3 to 4 additional plants in the next 18 months. On September 9, 2009, W2e announced that it has received a non-binding letter of intent from Terra Navita, its regional distributor, for the design, building and transfer of a 300 metric ton per day waste-to-energy facility on the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten. According to the agreement, the plant, incorporating Waste2Energy's latest continuous Batch Oxidation System technology, will process the unsorted municipal solid waste stream that is currently deposited in a landfill on the Dutch island. In addition to addressing the current capacity constraints of the landfill, the facility will also eliminate the materials that generate greenhouse gases in a landfill, while producing approximately 9 megawatts of renewable electrical energy, most of which will be sold back to the utility company.

In November 2007, the Company acquired EnerWaste International Corporation and in May 2008 they acquired Enerwaste Europe in Iceland. Pursuant to these acquisitions, Waste2Energy acquired two state-of-the-art technologies based on gasification and subsequent clean oxidation of waste.

Target Market - Waste2Energy targets the local waste-to-energy sector in the small to mid-range market – from one ton batch systems all the way up to the continuous 500 metric ton per day (TPD) range – not large centralized plants such as those operated by waste-to-energy companies like Covanta or Wheelabrator who typically develop major facilities in the 1,000+ TPD range. 

Business Model - The business model and strategic focus is on sales of plant and equipment incorporating Waste2Energy’s technology to:

1. Facility based waste generators (e.g., hospitals, mining camps, military) with simultaneous waste disposal and energy requirements,
2. Dedicated waste management and alternative energy companies with the resources to advance integrated W2e projects, and
3. Municipalities and their contractors.  

The Company also expects near term revenue generating potential in operations, service and maintenance contracts. Over the longer term, they will seek to obtain carried interest participation in selected customer projects and licensing opportunities. Waste2Energy has recently signed a strategic alliance with BIB Cochran, a boiler manufacturer in Dumfries, Scotland.  Cochran has the manufacturing profile and capacity to fabricate W2e BOS^TM components scheduled for the UK and European markets. W2e has no intention of investing in fixed manufacturing assets and they foresee the development of similar agreements around the world.

Financial

Waste2Energy, Inc. Completed Reverse-Merger with Public Shell Maven Media Holdings, Inc.

In May 2009, Waste2Energy shareholders were issued 45,981,770 shares of the Company’s common stock which represents approximately 96% of the issued and outstanding shares. On May 26, 2009, the Company sold 254,500 units in a private placement. Each unit consists of three shares of common stock and a three-year warrant to purchase three additional shares at an exercise price of $1.25 per share. The Company received gross proceeds of approximately $509,000. 

Technology - Waste2Energy’s Process

Gasification is a process that converts carbon-containing materials, such as coal, petroleum coke, municipal solid waste, or biomass, into a synthesis gas (syngas) and ash. Gasification occurs when a carbon-containing feedstock is exposed to elevated temperatures and/or pressures in the presence of controlled, limited amounts of oxygen.

Waste2Energy Products

sBOS™ – standard Batch Oxidation System - The sBOS system was designed as a low emission and low labor approach to small and medium-scale solid waste disposal. Its uses include on‐site waste destruction, and optional conversion to intermittent energy, of facility‐generated waste streams from mines, oil fields, military, medical, hospitality, commercial, industrial or other installations. There are over 40 installations worldwide. The sBOS utilizes a gasification process which thermally converts waste products into a burnable gas. This two-stage process provides the lowest possible emissions and is the most environmentally sound method for waste disposal. The unique modular sBOS allows for flexibility of and ease of operation. With capacities from 1 to 25 tonnes per day of waste processing, the sBOS is ideal for small municipalities and private industries. By adding thermal recovery equipment, the hot effluent gas from the sBOS can be used to produce steam and electricity. Advantages of the sBOS system include:

• No expensive preparation of the waste is required - everything goes into the sBOS just as it comes off the garbage truck;
• Wide range of waste materials acceptable - including tires;
• Low temperature gasification in a sealed unit produces syngas economically and minimizes fly-ash and NOx;
• Gasification reduces waste to an inert ash with a weight reduction of up to 95%; 
• High-temperature secondary oxidation ensures clean emissions.

cBOS™ – continuous Batch Oxidation System – This system is for continuous, uninterrupted production of energy from batch loading of unsorted, mixed waste feedstocks: e.g. municipal solid waste, tires, commercial wastes, construction debris, etc.  It features 24/7 cycling and intermittent loading.  There is a current operating installation in Husavik, Iceland and a second installation for Scotgen, a subsidiary of Ascot Environmental, located near Dumfries in Scotland.  The plant will continuously produce from batches of mixed unsorted municipal and hazardous wastes.

cBOS system - 20 metric ton per day BOS Mixed Municipal Wastes

The basic cBOS system has a nominal capacity of 60 Tonnes Per day and consists of four primary gasification chambers feeding one secondary oxidation chamber. For larger requirements the basic four-primary module can be replicated on the same site to produce a much larger plant, the ultimate size being limited only by the logistics of transporting and handling the waste. With its modular design, continuous power output and  ability to meet current stringent emission standards, the cBOS™ is well suited to process Municipal Solid Waste (“MSW”) from residential communities of 20,000 to 100,000 in Europe or North America (larger in Africa, Asia & Latin America) or to tackle industrial waste piles of tires etc. At present there is very little industrial scale gasification of biomass or MSW that meet or exceed both EU and EPA emission standards.

COR™ – Continuous Oxidation Reactor – It provides continuous conversion to energy of consistent, uniform feedstocks including sorted municipal solid waste and biomass including agricultural waste, wood chips, and energy crops.  The COR™ is a low-cost gasification and oxidation system in which both processes are carried out in the same vertical chamber. The COR™ gasifies at low temperature and then oxidizes at high temperature giving extremely clean emissions. It has a mechanical feed system and is optimized for large quantities of biomass or other consistent waste feedstock from 50 to 500 tons per day and is also modular. This system can be supplied with or without energy capture for the production of steam or electricity. The advantages of the COR™ are:

• Low capital costs as a result of simple modular construction;
• Scalability;
• Short lead time and rapid deployment (basic system).

The COR™ is essentially the same process as the sBOS™, except that the COR™ does gasification and oxidation in the same reactor.  This requires continuous feed as opposed to batch operation and dictates that the feed material must be relatively consistent in chemistry and physical composition. There are MSW and industrial waste streams that have such properties, particularly if some pretreatment such as sorting, densification or dewatering is done.  De-ashing is also carried out on a continuous basis as the tower does not cool down.

W2e’s Technology Advantage

W2e’s gasification process is differentiated by the following features:

• Most gasifiers require feedstock that has been through a process of pretreatment - either drying, sorting, shredding or sizing.  W2e’s BOS™ technologies require no such pretreatment as all waste goes straight into the primary chamber.
• The COR system on the other hand, functions better with uniform feedstocks, such as biomass. However, the product will also effectively process municipal solid waste provided that all non combustible products (such as glass, masonry and metals etc) are removed by pre-sorting.
• In W2e’s systems, the syngas is oxidized at very high temperatures in a secondary combustion chamber to ensure complete destruction of all remaining hydrocarbon compounds.  The result is a stream of very hot (> 1000Deg C) waste flue gas. The thermal power of this waste stream can be captured in a waste heat recovery boiler and be used in a simple steam cycle or Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC), utilizing a refrigerant gas to drive a turbine coupled to an electric generator.
• Typically, the waste flue gas is treated as an integral part of the BOS™ process train. W2e’s treatment utilizes commercially available systems that add sodium bicarbonate for acid neutralization; activated carbon to remove trace dioxins, furans, and heavy metals; and a filter bag house to collect scrubber consumables and any residual fly ash.
• A Continuous Emission Monitoring (CEM) system monitors and logs air emissions.  The cBOS plants will meet and exceed the stringent EU regulations covering emissions (EU regulations are currently more onerous than US EPA standards).

The Global Waste Management Market

Waste presents a large challenge to our civilization.  Governments now see the need for discarded materials to be efficiently collected, treated, recycled or disposed.  W2e’s believes advanced thermal processes permit various types of waste to be safely and efficiently handled. This provides significant benefits for the waste producer, the local community and the environment. The chart below (source: Covanta) identifies certain global waste management markets by primary management approach.

The chart demonstrates the overall magnitude of the waste market. Clearly certain regions with high landfill and low waste-to-energy management approaches represent primary markets for W2e™.  Globally, landfills account for 1.2 billion tons annually, recycling for 0.5 billion tons, and conversion of waste into energy only 0.2 billion tons. Landfill space is increasingly at a premium and, in Europe, is being phased out. The island economies (the Caribbean etc.), being based on garbage-averse tourism with expensive electricity, will be natural markets for W2e, as evidenced by the recent St Maarten announcement. The global economic drivers of higher waste disposal costs, higher electricity costs, higher congestion costs and higher energy costs will make waste-to-energy a more competitive solution.

Waste is a local feedstock that does not gain value when transported distances. This means that plant size has to be both scalable down and up and modular to satisfy feedstock supply considerations and allow for future expansion.

Frost & Sullivan Report - Europe is the largest waste to energy plants market in the world with a very well developed infrastructure and over 429 installed plants in 2008. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, European Waste to Energy Plants Market, finds that the market earned revenues of euro 3.10 billion in 2008.

The stress from the European Union to shift away from landfills towards better alternatives has indirectly helped the waste to energy business. This diversion of waste from landfills has resulted in the planning and commissioning of many waste-to-energy plants in the last 5 years.

"The most important driver for the waste to energy plants market in Europe has been the Landfill Directive and its waste diversion targets," confirms Frost & Sullivan Research Associate Karthikeyan Ravikumar. "This has resulted in the diversion of waste from landfills to waste to energy plants."

Countries such as France and Germany have the largest number of waste to energy plants. Such plants have facilitated the effective treatment of waste diverted from landfills, enabling these countries to reach successfully their landfill diversion targets. In addition to the Landfill Directive, the growing demand for power, paralleled by volatile oil prices, has made waste to energy plants a viable alternative for the disposal of waste.

China - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in September 3, 2009 that it would lend $200 million to China to help develop waste-to-energy plants. The loan would be the ADB's first private-sector municipal solid waste management project, said Jo Yamagata, Deputy Director general of ADB's Private Sector Operations Department (PSOD). Philip Y. Fan, Executive Director and General Manager of CEIL, said of all waste treatment technologies, waste-to-energy technology was regarded as the most effective in treating urban areas' solid waste. He said CEIL planned to invest in 30 additional environment projects in China on top of the investments in 26 current projects.

Competition

Competition will come from known and unforeseen competitors in different industries.  Primary competition will come from landfill and recycling facilities as well as suppliers of incineration equipment.  Because incinerators employ single-stage oxidation, carried out at much lower temperatures than used by the BOS™ technology, they face a greater challenge with emissions control and cleaning.  This raises the initial capital cost of the equipment.  Additionally, incineration systems are not usually suited to smaller applications. 

There are several gasification technologies that are potential competitors. There are also plasma technologies that are being marketed for MSW processing, including by AlterNRG a Canadian company formed to acquire and commercialize Westinghouse’s plasma technology which is an expensive process. 

In addition to AlterNRG, there are other emerging technologies such as waste2tricity but these technologies are unproven with no commercial references. Some obvious competitors include:

• Covanta Energy, which is an internationally recognized owner and operator of Energy-from-Waste and power generation projects.  Covanta Energy's Energy-from-Waste facilities convert municipal solid waste into renewable energy for numerous communities, predominantly in the United States.
• Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the safe and environmentally sound conversion of municipal solid waste - and other renewable waste fuels - into clean energy. Wheelabrator pioneered the waste-to-energy industry in the U.S. when it designed, built and operated the first commercially successful facility in Saugus, Massachusetts, in 1975.

Intellectual Property

W2e is extending their patent options for its Batch Oxidation System (BOS) internationally through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) mechanism, which includes all the major industrialized countries.  The PCT is the international treaty which allows patents initially filed in one country to begin the process of filing for that a patent internationally.  In addition to future engineering development and patent filings, W2e has a significant IP portfolio in the form of trade secrets and know-how for the operation, management and control of gasification processes, especially related to unsorted municipal waste streams. This is further enhanced by the technical documentation and support necessary not only to operationalize these systems, but also to bring them successfully through the local and regional permitting processes and the appropriate regulatory oversight agencies.             

Management

Peter Bohan, CEO and President - Peter Bohan has been President and Chief Operating Officer since September 2008. Mr. Bohan is a senior executive with international technology and capital equipment expertise. Prior to joining Waste2Energy, from June 2006 to August 2008, Mr. Bohan provided strategic and business advice to emerging technology and manufacturing companies. From June 2006 to August 2008 he was Vice President and General Manager of US Filter Inc.  From 1989 to 2005, Mr. Bohan was Vice President and General Manager of Bird Machine Co. During Mr. Bohan’s career, he has gained significant experience positioning companies supplying capital equipment worldwide, strategic development of markets and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Bohan holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and an MBA from Cranfield Institute of Technology. Mr. Bohan is currently a Board Member of Bisco Environmental Inc.

Friðfinnur (Finni) Einarsson, Chief Technology Officer - Friðfinnur (Finni) Einarsson has been Chief Technology Officer since May 2008. Mr. Einarsson graduated from the Marine Engineering College Iceland (First Class) and spent 10 years at sea as chief engineer before becoming an Incineration Plant Manager in Iceland. Mr. Einarsson moved to the US to work for Air Purification Inc., a specialist emission controls corporation, during which time he gained a Masters of Science Engineering at Union College, Schenectady, NY.  On returning to Iceland, Mr. Einarsson worked as a consulting engineer specializing in waste incineration and gasification and performing feasibility studies and technology evaluations for municipalities.  In 2005 Mr. Einarsson became a founding shareholder and executive officer of EnerWaste Europe and the driving force behind the BOS™ waste-to-energy plants at Husavik, Iceland, and at Dumfries, Scotland.  Enerwaste Europe was placed in involuntary receivership in early 2009 and the company is currently in administration under the supervision of the local courts.

Christopher d’Arnaud-Taylor, Founder and Director - Christopher d’Arnaud-Taylor is the founder of Waste2Energy and was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until September 4, 2009. Previously he was the founder, President and CEO of Xethanol Corporation now known as Global Energy Holdings Corp (AMEX:GNH) from its inception in 2000 to July 2006. He continued to serve as a member of its Board of Directors until his resignation in 2008. Mr. d’Arnaud-Taylor serves as a director of MetaMorphix, Inc., a private company. Mr. Arnaud-Taylor obtained his MBA from the London Business School.

Mike Sweeney of Waterville Research is a Contributing Analyst to Proactive and has over sixteen years of experience on Wall Street.  For more information on Michael Sweeney, see 

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Waste2Energy: Making Electricity from a Town's Garbage

The average American generates nearly a ton of trash each year. Each suburban home annually produces 15 pounds of hazardous household waste including medications, paints, solvents and automotive products.

 

Where does all this waste go?  Most goes into the ground at landfills. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, only 32 percent of waste in the United States is recovered or recycled. Another 14 percent is burned at combustion facilities. These statistics don't count the enormous amount of waste that is illegally burned in barrels or buried in landfills constructed without permits.

 

This problem is compounded by over-population. Most experts believe that the ideal population for the United States ranges between 100 and 150 million people. This is compared to our current population of 308 million. The numbers will get much worse. The U.S. population, predicts the World Facebook, is expected to rise to 451 million in 2050 and then 595 million in 2100.

 

Waste management is already a huge problem for the United States. President Obama's economic stimulus package passed in early 2009 attempts to begin dealing with the elimination of waste and the creation of energy. It includes $3 billion for development of renewable energy projects, $600 million to cleanup hazardous waste and $6.3 billion for state and local governments to make investments in energy efficiency. The program will provide direct payments in support of an estimated 5,000 biomass, solar, wind and other types of renewable energy production facilities.

 

Waste management and energy production are also key to green building initiatives. An estimated 61 percent of America's contractors rate waste management the second most important aspect of green construction, just behind energy efficiency. This was found in a new SmartMarket Report released at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in November, 2009.

 

Well-positioned to tackle this environmental problem in the United States is Waste2Energy, a new company based in Greenville, S.C. that designs, builds, installs and sells waste-to-energy plants. These facilities convert biomass or other solid waste streams traditionally destined for a landfill into clean renewable energy.

 

In November 2007, the company acquired EnerWaste International Corp. and in May 2008 it bought Enerwaste Europe in Iceland. With these acquisitions, Waste2Energy purchased two state-of-the-art technologies based on gasification and the clean oxidation of waste.

 

Some background is perhaps necessary. Gasification is a technology that has been in use since the 1800s when it was first developed to produce town gas for lighting and cooking. During World War 11, wood gas generators were used to power motor vehicles in Europe during fuel shortages. It was called gasogene.

 

Gasification converts carbonaceous materials such as biomass, biofuel, coal, plastic, woodchips and other waste materials into carbon monoxide and hydrogen by reacting it at high temperatures with a controlled amount of oxygen or steam. The resulting gas mixture is called synthesis gas, or "syngas." A fuel itself, syngas can be used for heat production and for generation of mechanical and electrical power.

 

Traditionally, gasification technology has been used to process a specific type of waste material to generate a consistent output of syngas. This means the waste must be pre-processed first for use in the gasification process. Usually made into pellets or other usable form of material, the preprocessing of the waste requires using a large amount of processing and storage space, a complex transportation infrastructure and expensive operational logistics.

 

Waste2Energy employs a two-stage process that broadens the kinds of waste materials that can be fed into the system to generate clean energy. The company's technology is ideal as a smaller, community-based waste management-energy production solution that is efficient to operate and cost-effective. It is designed as a thermal treatment of waste that's an alternative to incineration.

 

In the Waste2Energy process, gasification is accomplished in stage one. The gasification is done at a high enough temperature to sterilize the waste, but at a low enough temperature not to change the molecular structure of the material. This stage produces syngas. A residual from this process is ash. Within this ash are traces of various inorganic materials-such as steel, plastics and other materials depending on the type of waste-that can be recycled if the operator desires.

 

In the second stage, the syngas goes into a second chamber where it is subjected to a very high temperature and has more than a two-second retention time. This cleans the syngas of toxic material and creates a clean hot flue gas. The composition of the flue gas depends on what is being burned, but it will usually consist of mostly nitrogen (typically more than two-thirds) derived from the combustion air, carbon dioxide(CO2), water vapor and excess oxygen.

 

The hot flue gas-the key product of the Waste2Energy process-can be converted to superheated steam to drive a turbine to create electricity. Or possibly it could be used for fuel cells, thermal desalination or other alternate forms of energy. The operator decides on the end product.

 

At the moment, Waste2Energy has a patent pending relating to its batch process for waste that allows the system to create a consistent flow of flue gas. What distinguishes the company's solution is that the preprocessing of the waste is not necessary. This allows the Waste2Energy technology to be decentralized, localized and community-oriented, with reduced transportation costs and far less road congestion due to waste dumping trucks.

 

To demonstrate its technology, Waste2Energy is a participant in building a new waste-to-energy plant which opened this summer near Dumfries in Scotland. It is the most advanced facility of its kind in Europe. When fully commissioned by early 2010, the new plant will initially process about 120 metric tons of mixed waste each day and generate about eight megawatts of power. It is capable, say its operators, of dealing with the waste from a community of 250,000 people.

 

The facility in Scotland will be the first showcase demonstration facility for Waste2Energy. It incorporates four intake chambers and will use a blend of different kinds of wastes for conversion to clean electricity. In industry jargon, waste product for feeding the system is called "feedstock."

 

Because the Scotland plant requires no preprocessing of the feedstock, it was built on less than two acres of land. Competing projects that must preprocess the same amount of waste require eight to ten acres of land for storage and facilities. The cost savings are huge.

 

Waste2Energy insists the success of its small plants lie with the skills of the operator who controls the feedstock. Their expertise is normally the measure of success or failure in making a facility profitable. Waste2Energy requires that prospective clients complete a comprehensive application that seeks to determine whether or not the client can use a waste-to-energy facility.  It's called a "waste characterization profile."  The results of the rigorous application have surprised many potential users, some who found they didn't generate sufficient waste to use the process.

 

Interestingly, the types of waste vary dramatically from place to place around the globe. Because of this fact, Waste2Energy-designed plants work better in some places than others. In some countries, the waste includes large amounts of discarded food- which includes much moisture-while others contain the remains of automobiles or demolition debris. The type of mixed waste determines the amount of electricity that can be produced from a facility.

 

Caribbean islands, and resort islands in general, find great value in the Waste2Energy technology. Islands tend to have a high electricity cost-usually from imported diesel fuel-and require transporting waste offshore to landfills or other processing systems in a garbage-adverse tourist environments. Hotels, hospitals, military bases and mining camps also generate their own wastes.. The company recently received a letter-of-intent from the island of Sint Maarten to design and construct a 300 metric ton per day waste-to-energy facility

 

Waste2Energy's technology has also been selected to be used in the construction of six new gasification resource parks to be located in the United Kingdom. The plants will treat in excess of 600,000 metric tons of commercial and industrial waste. The project is one of the largest ever committed to developing gasification capacity in the UK and, as planned, will produce enough electrical power for over 85,000 homes.

 

Waste2Energy doesn't see itself as a suitable solution for every project in a nation as large and diverse as the United States. For areas with vast space for landfills and cheap electricity, they admit they don't fit. If a city wants a central 25 megawatt power station driven by waste, a larger system would be a better fit. However, if a small town or group of small towns want to treat 60 to 360 tons per day and generate 2 - 15 megawatts of electrical power, Waste2Energy offers a very cost effective solution.

 

As towns and cities consider the possibilities of alternate technologies, the management of Waste2Energy see communities joining together for public-private partnerships with experienced operators. In some cases, it would involve the creation of a waste-to-energy industrial park where citizens would bring waste to be processed.  Such ventures may more resemble a real estate transaction than an industrial solution.

 

Whatever the final form, the waste management problem is not going away. As the U.S. population increases, landfills become harder to justify and costs rise. Solutions are going to be needed. 

 

"There are a lot of gasification companies out there and many of them scale up very well," said Christopher d'Arnaud-Taylor, chairman of Waste2Energy.  "Our philosophy is the exact reverse of that-our technology scales down. That's important. If you can scale down, then you can get a community-based solution, which is where we want to be as a company."

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Waste2Energy Holdings, Inc. Receives Order for a 4 MTPD Batch Oxidation System

Waste2Energy Holdings, Inc. (W2e) (OTC.BB:WTEZE), a worldwide waste-to-energy company, announced that it has received an order for a 4 MTPD Batch Oxidation System (sBOS(TM)) from Waste to Energy Canada Inc. (WtEC).

The system is destined for the remote coastal community of Ahousaht on Flores Island. With a population of 1,000, the community is located within the world renowned Clayoquot Sound, which is a UNESCO designated BIOSHPERE. The BOS(TM) system will completely and effectively deal with the community's waste stream comprising wastewater sludge, household, commercial, industrial & medical wastes as well as used oils, tires & biomass from a local sawmill.

The benefits to the community include:

1. The elimination of the need for the transportation of the waste stream
   generated by the community - thus saving costs and pollution from the
   transport
2. Allowing the community to reduce its carbon footprint via the
   elimination of landfill material and the associated detrimental effects
   such as greenhouse gases, water pollution and disease

 

WtEC plans to add a low pressure boiler to the BOS(TM) system to capture the energy during the conversion process and provide heating to a community greenhouse.

The unit is skid mounted and can be rapidly assembled and commissioned on site. W2e's proprietary control system will also incorporate SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) capability that will facilitate remote monitoring of the unit's performance.

Waste2Energy Announces New Contract

Receives Contract From TBF + Partners AG

Waste2Energy Holdings, Inc. (W2e) (OTCBB:WTEZE), a worldwide waste-to-energy company, announced that it has received a contract from TBF + Partners AG for a Preliminary Engineering Design Study (PEDS) for a 150 MTPD waste-to-energy plant in Italy.

In terms of the contract, W2e's UK subsidiary, Waste2Energy Engineering Ltd., will perform the preliminary design work necessary to finalize the design and specifications of major equipment, provide layouts of the plant, final specifications and definitive pricing.

W2e's cBOS(TM) technology is employed in a 24 MTPD plant in Husavik, Iceland that has been operating for nearly 4 years and in a soon to be commissioned 120 MTPD facility in Dumfries, Scotland. The air emissions from the Husavik plant have easily passed the stringent EU regulations and the Dumfries plant has received a permit to operate from SEPA (Scottish Environmental Protection Agency).

About TBF + Partners AG:

TBF is a Swiss based consulting engineering company specializing in the planning and implementation of large and complex projects for the waste management & transport markets.

Waste Management- The Federal Government is Taking Action

Waste management is already a huge problem for the United States. President Obama’s economic stimulus package passed in early 2009 attempts to begin dealing with the elimination of waste and the creation of energy. It includes $3 billion for development of renewable energy projects, $600 million to cleanup hazardous waste and $6.3 billion for state and local governments to make investments in energy efficiency. The program will provide direct payments in support of an estimated 5,000 biomass, solar, wind and other types of renewable energy production facilities.

Well-positioned to tackle this environmental problem in the United States is Waste2Energy, a new company based in Greenville, S.C. that designs, builds, installs and sells waste-to-energy plants. These facilities convert biomass or other solid waste streams traditionally destined for a landfill into clean renewable energy.

In November 2007, the company acquired EnerWaste International Corp. and in May 2008 it bought Enerwaste Europe in Iceland. With these acquisitions, Waste2Energy purchased two state-of-the-art technologies based on gasification and the clean oxidation of waste.

Gasification converts carbonaceous materials such as biomass, biofuel, coal, plastic, woodchips and other waste materials into carbon monoxide and hydrogen by reacting it at high temperatures with a controlled amount of oxygen or steam. The resulting gas mixture is called synthesis gas, or “syngas.” A fuel itself, syngas can be used for heat production and for generation of mechanical and electrical power.

 

Given the budgets from the Federal Government, it seems that Waste2Energy should be able to easily get a piece of this action.

Where Does all the Waste Go?

The average American generates 0.75 tons of trash each year. Each suburban home annually produces 15 pounds of hazardous household waste including medications, paints, solvents and automotive products.

Where does all this waste go?  Most goes into the ground at landfills. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, only 32 percent of waste in the United States is recovered or recycled. Another 14 percent is burned at combustion facilities. These statistics don’t count the enormous amount of waste that is illegally burned in barrels or buried in landfills constructed without permits.

This problem is compounded by over-population. Most experts believe that the ideal population for the United States ranges between 100 and 150 million people. This is compared to our current population of 308 million. The numbers will get much worse. The U.S. population, predicts the World Facebook, is expected to rise to 451 million in 2050 and then 595 million in 2100.

Waste management and energy production are also key to green building initiatives. An estimated 61 percent of America’s contractors rate waste management the second most important aspect of green construction, just behind energy efficiency. This was found in a new SmartMarket Report released at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in November, 2009. More in our next blog...