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6,000 Ton/Day Waste-to-Energy Plant Approved for Ho
Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Pyrolysis technology will be able to handle and
re-use the city's municipal solid waste and sewage treatment plant sludge
wastes, as well as certain hazardous wastes; and operate at a profit.
North American facilities also being planned.
Adapted by Pure Energy Systems News
NEW YORK, USA -- Digital Gas, Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets:DIGG) announced Thursday
that the Entropic Consortium of Detroit, Michigan, has been given approval to
commercialize a 200 MW US$300 million waste-to-energy facility in Ho Chi Minh
City, Vietnam, according to a press release and a story in Viet Nam News.
Entropics process will be able to handle and re-use municipal solid waste and
sewage treatment plant sludge wastes from the City of Ho Chi Minh, certain
hazardous wastes, as well as wastes from adjacent farming and high profit
businesses. The waste-to-energy plant is projected to process approximately six
thousand tons of waste daily.
Expected to be built in two years, the plant will recycle waste products
into either high quality, low-sulfur synthetic coal or synthetic "scrubbed
gas". Pyrolysis is a thermal process that uses high temperatures to break
down any waste containing carbon. It uses less oxygen than traditional
incineration. The process turns waste into ash, pyrolysis oil and synthetic gas
or synthetic coal.
Entropic's patented technology produces a clean-burning by-product from the
widest variety of processed waste. The product has the same BTU value as
high-grade coal without the emission impurities of coal (sulfur, mercury, among
others). Furthermore, the product is fifty to eighty (50-80%) percent more
combustion-efficient than refuse-derived fuel.
This method of treating waste costs
about 75% of the cost of dumping and burying waste in a landfill, and in the
process produces 1,500 tons of synthetic coal, capable of producing around 150MW
of electricity per day (sic). [units are problematic]
The project is to be phased in. Initially, the company will only have to
invest US$100 million to treat 2,000 tons of waste each day.
The Entropic Energy company uses deep-well technology to keep its disposal of
industrial wastewater inside its plants. Wastewater is collected and reduced to
a solid substance, which is then mixed with cement and injected into a well
approximately 1,500 meters deep.
Entropic Consortium includes Digital Energy &
Farming Asia (DEFA), a subsidiary of Digital Gas, and Stone & Webster, a
subsidiary of The Shaw Group. The Entropic Consortium, assisted by Stone
& Webster, concluded its final negotiations this week after a major
presentation to government officials. The approval is subject to a final design,
technology and administrative review by the Ho Chi Minh City Environmental
Protection Agency.
DEFA anticipates substantial profit in view of the expected dramatic increase in
electric power demand in Asia. The allegedly environmental friendly,
cost-efficient technology represented by the coal-substitute technology and the
utilization of its advanced farming and other technologies. The same
technologies will be deployed by DIGG's energy and farming centers in North
America. These centers could become the preferred alternative to coal-fired
power plants and a solution for solid waste disposal problems plaguing major
urban areas.
The Entropic Consortium selected Stone & Webster as its engineering firm
because it is a global leader in the development, engineering, design and
construction of facilities supporting domestic and international power
generation. They bring to the Consortium over a century of experience with
state-of-the-art technology for major infrastructure development. Entropic has
also chosen Stone & Webster for its East St. Louis waste-to-energy plant.
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SOURCE
CONTACT:
"Major utilities, corporations and municipalities may express interest or
inquire further."
Digital Gas, Inc.
Brian Smith, 732-927-4073
energei@optonline.net
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Page composed by Sterling
D. Allan May 13, 2005
Last updated July 24, 2005
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