Monday, May 2, 2011

MaxWest poop-to-power process goes on stream - Houston Business Journal:

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Houston-based MaxWest a process to convert the Cityof Sanford’w treated waste stream into methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogejn through high-temperature gasification. The city will then use thosre gases as a source of energ y instead of buyingnatural gas. At Sanford’s Soutg Water Resource Center, MaxWest dryers remove aboug 90 percent of the moisture fromthe sludge. It is then gasifierd in a near-complete Starting Thursday, the extracted gas will be used to powerrthe dryer, saving Sanford, whic is located near Orlando, an estimated $9 million over the cours e of the 20-year contract.
Sanford is the firsr municipality in North America to apply gasification technology toits wastestream. “The Sanford gasifiee will serve as the MaxWes operational education center for interested municipalities across the saidBill Baker, MaxWest’s vice president of “We’re ready to show it MaxWest has other projects on tap for including gasifying “horse muck” in

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