Covanta Energy Corp. (NYSE: CVA), a global owner and operator of energy-from-waste projects, has announced the completion of commercial demonstration testing of a gasification technology. The ...

Landfill is both ugly and polluting. But a new breed of technology promises to make it a thing of the past, transforming a huge portion of landfill material into clean gas. It's thanks to a process ...

FRANKLIN & LEBANON, Tenn. — The Lebanon, TN, Waste-to-Energy Gasification Plant reached a milestone last week as the plant maintained a 94% uptime rate over the last 100 consecutive days. More than ...

Combination of energy generation from biomass sources and CO2 capture technologies (Bio-CCS or BECCS) is already recognised as a potential option to tackle climate change in most scenarios, as it is ...

Sewage sludge gasification has emerged as a versatile thermochemical route to transform a high‐volume by-product of wastewater treatment into a renewable energy carrier and recover valuable nutrients.

Towns in central and northern Maine were seeking a workable alternative to landfills and incinerators when they engaged Fiberight to build a municipal solid-waste-processing unit in the town of ...

In future power plants, gasification islands will replace the gas pipelines feeding gas turbine combined cycle facility. The gasification island also can replace the conventional pulverized coal power ...

(This guest post by Rembrant appeared at The Oil Drum. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 U.S. License.) Between 2000 and 2010 world energy use increased by 2.6 ...