EnerTech Environmental creates SlurryCarb process renewable energy E-Fuel
By Susan Wilson
What exactly is SlurryCarb and what does it have to do with renewable energy? EnerTech Environmental created the SlurryCarb technology to create E-fuel, a clean replacement for coal.
EnerTech Environmental is located in the greater Atlanta, Georgia area. The company was founded by the current President and CEO, Kevin Bolin with his grandfather, Norman Dickinson, and his father Peter Dickinson. Norman Dickinson invented and patented the SlurryCarb process.
This process takes biosolids and through the application of heat and pressure breaks the biosolids into carbon and light gases, “resulting in a condensed slurry with molecules that are very high in energy.” Excess moisture is removed producing E-fuel. E-fuel has proven to be an excellent replacement for coal.
The feedstock for the SlurryCarb process is such hard to dispose of waste products like municipal sewage sludge, animal manure and feeding waste, and agricultural wastes and residue.
The SlurryCarb™ technology does not simply dispose of biosolids, but converts what is essentially a waste product into a renewable fuel that can be used to benefit society and reduce the environmental impact of burning fossil fuels.
E-Fuel can be used in place of coal in such processes as:
- Cement Kilns
- Gasifiers
- Pulverized Coal Boilers
- Fluidized Bed Combusters
- Waste and other Boilers
- Process Heaters
- Electric Generators
- Co-fired with MSW for heat generation
- Gasification processes to produce electricity
EnerTech finished building its “first commercial SlurryCarb™ facility, the Rialto Regional Biosolids Processing Facility in Southern California. The feedstock for the facility will be provided by municipal sewage waste from five municipalities in the Los Angeles region.
The Rialto Regional facility recycles 883 wet tons of municipal waste into 167 dry tons per day of E-fuel to be used in a local cement kiln. The Kiln is replacing coal with E-fuel.
EnerTech Environmental is turning waste into high energy fuel and replacing a substance, coal, that creates tremendous waste and pollution when it is mined.
Use waste to make high energy fuel, or create waste digging a high energy fuel. Hmmm. Not much of a decision really.
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What type of fuel is used to create the heat and pressure to produce the E-fuel? What happens to the liquid residues? Do you folks need a permit to burn this stuff? Does your facility have a smokestack? Are you required to test the emissions for pharmaceuticals, solvents, PBDEs, fire retardents, metals, etc. and other chemicals found in sludge?