Energos Gasification Technology

UK Energos Gasification Plant Numbers Rise

The ENERGOS remit is to supply its gasification technology which has an twelve-year track record of safe operation in Norway and Germany, is now operating at the UK's first gasification plant on the Isle of Wight, with more plants on the way.

Their Gasification technology converts waste into a gas using an advanced two-stage thermal treatment process.

Energos, which won a British Renewable Energy Award, to build an 80,000 tonne plant at Sarpsborg in Norway in 2008/9 and is developing an 80,000 tonne plant in Irvine, Scotland.

In the last three years, six plan­ning applications based on the Energos gasification technol­ogy have been submitted. All have received consent within 10 months of submission and none of the schemes has been subject to planning appeal. The Doncaster go-ahead was achieved in just five months.

Nick Dawber, managing direc­tor of Energos, is reported in Envirotec Magzine as having commented:

"Our model is to create small-sized plants that can exist at the heart of a community and han­dle the local left-over waste that the community cannot recycle." He said the perfect planning record suggested that commu­nities were prepared to accept appropriately-sized plants.

"Another reason why the Ener­gos approach is proving accept­able is that traffic movements in and out of the site are mini­mised due to the small scale of the facility. Also, because the site footprint is small - typically three acres - we can readily find brownfield sites within existing industrial areas. This proximity to industry also means we have access to customers who can utilise the combined heat and power capability of the plants to ensure they run at maximum en­ergy efficiency."

Christian Reeve, CEO of BioCen Power, said construction would take two years and a start was anticipated late 2010. 

Energos, which is part of ENER-G, has developed its own patented gasification technology - an advanced thermal treatment process that converts residual, non recyclable waste into a gas by using the heat of partial combustion to liberate hydrocarbons. Complete oxidation of the gas in a finely controlled environment enables much tighter controls than can be achieved in conventional energy from waste plants - resulting in very low emissions.

There are currently six similar Energos plants operating in Norway and Germany (2008?) and the technology has a ten year track record with over 350,000 hours of operating experience. Energos is also set to open its first UK gasification plant on the Isle of Wight this spring.

Gasification converts waste into a gas using an advanced two-stage thermal treatment process. The resulting heat energy is used to produce steam, which is then used to generate electricity. The patented Energos gasification technology was developed during the nineties in conjunction with the University of Trondheim in Norway.

Compiled from Press Releases - February/Spetember 2009

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Energos, which is part of ENER-G, uses its own patented gasification technology - an advanced thermal treatment process that converts residual, non recyclable waste into a gas by using the heat of partial combustion to liberate hydrocarbons.

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