Construction Begins on 150 TPD Pyrolysis Gasification Plant in Green Bay, WI

Date: November 2, 2010

Source: News Room

A corporation owned by the Oneida Tribe of Indians has begun construction of a waste-to-energy facility in Green Bay, WI that it hopes will process 150 tons of municipal waste per day and generate enough electricity (6.4 megawatts) to power 3,000 homes. Groundwork has begun on a 70,000-square-foot building on reservation land that will house the facility which is expected to be complete by Dec. 31, 2011. The company called Oneida Seven Generations is currently negotiating with Brown County to lock in a waste stream that will feed the plant which will employ pyrolytic gasification to convert the waste into a syngas that can be burned to generate electricity. The facility is being built by Alliance Construction and Design of De Pere, WI, which claims it will be the first company in the country to design and build a fully enclosed gasification system of this type.

Pyrolysis Gasification

A Pyrolytic Gasification Chamber is used to convert biomass and/or waste into a combustible gas mixture knows as Syngas. Non-combustibles remaining after gasification are extracted from the Pyrolytic Gasification Chamber and can be saleable for use in carbon based filters or be used as landfill cover. The combustion of Syngas results in a clean gas that is very low in NOx and CO, in addition to being environmentally superior to firing conventional fuels such as coal and fuel oil and being permitted by the DNR.

To learn more about Oneida Seven Generations, visit: www.osgc.net, or Alliance Construction and Design: www.alliancebuilds.com/waste-to-energy/waste-to-energy.html.

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