INTRODUCTION:
The following is an overview of a business concept for the
development of a regional energy and waste management plan. The concept involves the development of a
joint venture between National, Regional and Private Interests for the recovery
and recycling of valuable energy and nutrient resources. The concept involves
identifying recoverable and recyclable waste resources, concentrating them into
feedstock at the site of generation and transporting the feedstock to a
regional site for conversion into energy or beneficial products that can be
utilised by consumers within the region.
Potential sites can be identified for developing the central
regional processing concept. Environmentally sound technologies are utilised
for the recovery of energy and for the beneficial recycling of fibres and
essential nutrients. The products can be
utilised in the production of electricity, agricultural products and fibreboard
for construction purposes.
Who is involved?
MPCEE was founded in 1972 as an environmental management consultancy,
specialising in environmental protection and pollution control within
developing countries. Today, MPCEE has agreements to work
alongside global technical manufacturing concerns, all of whom have technology
in place to deal with the dewatering and drying of multiple waste streams down
to zero percent moisture. It is also now possible to take anything and
everything that is carbon-based and reform it to a liquid and gaseous energy.
A regional energy and waste
management plan, although not new, this is the first time that it can be taken forward
in a viable commercial sense, because advanced dewatering, drying and
desalinisation technology, along with reforming technology are now available
that will allow capital and operating costs to be substantially reduced.
MPCEE operates in a niche market. That is identifying the need for
sustainable development required at national, regional and international
levels, using thirty-five years of professional skills and expertise in
environmental protection and pollution control. Through the identification
process it is possible to (a) bring together the appropriate technologists to
develop the plan using the Best Available Techniques (BAT), (b) link and pool
the relative necessary hardware resources, and (c) bring in the reputable
knowledge and understanding of banking and financial institutions to discuss
any financial commitments the end user may require.
Our technical partners come from
Europe and the
Waste Management Project
The domestic waste project allows for advanced
technical solutions, currently operating in separate global environments to
come together ‘like a glove’ to deal with the vast quantities of waste that is
on a continual upward spiral. The opportunity to involve municipal, regional
and national organisations, in both the public and private sectors, will show
the level of commitment by a country's authorities to combat the
ever-increasing problems of excessive domestic waste.
The Regional Energy and Waste Management Plan also
allows for industrial waste to be introduced into the waste stream. Technology
is included to deal with the decontamination of drilling mud and refinery waste
streams. All the technologies are patented, including waste recycling equipment
for separating and reclaiming products from packaging.
Sourcing
financial providers form part of our remit, but the due diligence that is
undertaken to protect their assets is very strict and will form part of
any investigation of those involved with the project. If a joint venture with
inward investment is to be included, this must be made absolutely clear from
the outset of discussions.
Resource Management is involved in the promotion, consultation,
and development of:
1.
Recyclable and Bio-conversion of waste solids
2.
Production of Alternative fuels for Energy, particularly looking at
biomass
3.
Production of Natural and Bio-based soil amendments and mulches
4.
Production of Commercial Bio-enhanced Soil Amendments and Enhanced
Fertilisers
5.
Production of Natural and Organic Based Crop Predators Shields
By utilising (to name a few) all plant life and
non-volatile solid waste:
1. Surplus agricultural crops (not
used in the human and animal food chain):
a) Potatoes
b) Sugar beets
c) Onions
d) Corn
e) Grain
f) Bi-products for the production of
bio-oils e.g., palm oil, glycerine, etc
2. Commercially generated manure and
process waste:
a) Dairy manure,
b) Stemmed mint,
c) Silage,
d) Potato Processing waste,
e) Fruit Processing waste
f) Straw,
g) Crop seed residues
h) Landfill segregated waste;
3. Landscaping, Lawn and Garden
generated green waste:
a) Leaves,
b) Limbs,
c) Grass clippings
To manufacture products that can be utilized in the
production of:
1) Fuel for direct energy production:
a) Hydrogen syngas and pure hydrogen
b) Methane,
c) Ethanol,
d) Propanol, and other related
alcohols;
2) Co-Generated Energy;
3) Organic Acids for dust control;
4) Residual building materials:
a) Cellulose
b) Fibre
5) Soil amendments and fertilizer
for:
a) Commercial crops;
b) Mitigation/reclamation/stabilization/re-vegetation
of environmentally sensitive areas;
c) Horticultural plants; and
d)
The identification of potential
central regional processing points will be made easy, because of the plants
adaptability to utilize the technologies for processing of incoming waste and
production of manufactured products and by-products. However, the concept can
be scaled to fit a number of regional sites and is ideal for remote and
isolated areas, islands and back up for existing unstable and unreliable
electricity supplies.
The success of this plan will be
governed by the joint venture interest and by developing a contractual
agreement with the industries, which will generate the bulk of the resource
that will be utilized in the plant.
The benefit to the regional community is:
1.
Recycling and renewal of valuable resources,
2.
Generation of heat, power and energy,
3.
Removal of agricultural, commercial, and municipal waste, which can
impact air and water quality,
4.
Recovery of plant nutrients,
5.
Production of alternative fibre resources.
Our goals are:
1) Development of the Plan:
a. Identify National, Regional and
Private co-operators;
b. Develop the Waste Generator
Cooperative; and
c. Identify the Regional feedstocks and
locations for the Local Concentrators.
2) Develop feedstock base:
a. Identify growers and nature of the
feedstock,
b. Identify the quantities, and
c. Contract the local concentrators.
3) Engineer the Reformer Technology
for heat, power and energy for both off-grid and supplementary electricity to
existing supplies
a. By Type of Biomass
b. By kW/mW Required
4) Process Development:
a) Local preconditioning
i)
Pulverizing
Air Dryer (PAD) - The PAD allows for the concentrating and dewatering of high
moisture waste (up to 85% moisture), producing a low moisture concentrated
feedstock (under 10% moisture), which can be easily transported to a regional
processing plant. The end result of the
dewatering process is the production of a uniform granule size (minus 10 to
minus 300 mesh) without any loss of carbohydrates, protein or nutrient. These dry units are designed to process 10
wet tons (20% solids)/hr. In addition to
the dry units liquid units are available which can process 300 tons of 2%
solids
b) Regional preconditioning
i)
Second
stage Pulverizing Air Dryers - Dries the material to 1-2 % moisture.
ii) Anaerobic and Fermentation
Digesters, allows for the ability to extract easily digestible simple sugars
and carbohydrates into methane, ethanol, or other organic simple organic acids.
c) Residue Processing
i)
Residue
Stabilization
(1) Microbial stabilization
(2) Base/Acid enhancement
(3) Composting
ii) Product Processing
(1) Amendment enhancement
(2) Fertilizer enhancement
(3) Fibre enhancement
d) Post process air and water
treatment
i)
Continuous
wastewater treatment, or
ii) Sequencing Batch Reactor.
5) Process/Operation Development:
a. Evaluation of Recyclable Resources
b. Development of Beneficial Reuse
Products
c. Products Evaluation
d. Product Production
e. Product Research,
f. Application, Monitoring, and
Evaluation.
6) Product Marketing:
a. Market Analysis
b. Product Manufacturing, and
c. Sales and Sales Support.
Agricultural and Industrial Waste
Management Systems:
1. Sequencing Batch Reactors (SBR),
2. Mobilized Film Anaerobic Reactors
(MFT),
3. Air Shear Pulverizer (ASP), and
4. Continuous Flow Acid-Basic
Stabilization (CFS).
Dewatering
and Waste Minimization Technologies
Biomass and Organic Waste
to Energy Technologies
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Conclusion
By bringing together and using
different technologies, it is not possible to use one particular plan for one
location and set of circumstances, and then take it to another location and
expect the same favourable and beneficial results, should the environmental
circumstances not be the same. Therefore, we endeavour to bring to your
attention the expertise, technology and resources that are required and will be
involved to cater for any project that a client intends to fulfil. We can then
show that it not only caters for the exact environmental protection and
pollution control requirements that the international community as a whole
expects, but will go on to show also that it is possible to achieve sustainable
development and, in the course of it, make excessive profits in doing so.
Private sector initiatives that
bring together global operators, to achieve the required end results,
necessitates financial, professional and commercial risks to be taken, but
these risks must be based on taking informed decisions. MPCEE has obtained,
through its professional approach to such operations, a level of credibility
second to none. MPCEE, therefore, offers potential users of the Plan its full
service of skills, expertise and commercialism in order to ensure that a
municipal waste project is both a commercial and operational success.
If you want to know more or wish to discuss what we can offer:
we aim to respond to all queries within 24 hours.
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