EnerTech Environmental Opens New SlurryCarb Facility
Filed Under: Environmental News, Green Technology on June 20, 2009
EnerTech Environmental in Atlanta, Georgia has opened a new biosolids-to-energy facility in southern California called teh Rialto SlurryCarb Facility. This plant takes biological solids (aka sewage) and speeds up nature’s process of composting to make a coal-like fuel that is then combusted to get heat energy.
The whole process is extremely clean and infinitely renewable and sustainable. The plant itself, located in Rialto, California, takes biosolid waste from the Los Angeles County area and converts it into fuel used to make energy. The whole process is EnerTech’s patented SlurryCarb process and the company hopes to sell the idea to other municipalities around the nation.
The plant, which opened June 11, will process over 270,000 wet tones of biosolids per year, generating over 60,000 tons of renewable fuel (E-Fuel) in that time. That fuel is then burned at several Southern California cement kilns to offset their coal use, saving local emissions to the tune of 80,000 tons.
Since the input (the sewer) is sustainably available and would otherwise be dumped, the process is definitely a bonus on that end–cities have to do SOMETHING with the waste. The added bonus of making sustainable energy sources out of it is even better. This saves a lot of coal and natural gas usage at the plants that can burn the E-Fuel instead.
For more information, visit the PRWeb.com website to read EnerTech’s press release at this link.
