CASE STUDY
A Canadian company is leading the way for the world with its’ patented Elementa Process®. Over $6 million has been invested over the past eight years in the development and optimization of the innovative non- incineration energy-from-waste conversion technology and proprietary processes. There is no other complete system like it in the world and recently, delegations from over ten countries have been flocking to the pilot plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada to view the unique Elementa Process and place orders.
The Elementa Process solves landfill problems, creates clean renewable base-load distributed energy and significantly reduces green house gases.
Since 2007, Elementa Group Inc. has operated a 1,000 tonne pilot plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada which served to put the technology together, as well as to develop and optimize the intellectual property and processes. The Elementa Process has received independent third party verification by SNC Lavalin, one of the largest project and engineering firms in the world.
The Elementa Process uses municipal solid waste (MSW) as the feedstock and through steam reformation, the chemical breakdown of materials under high temperatures in a oxygen deprived combustion-free environment, clean renewable energy is produced. The MSW volume is reduced by 98% with a 2% inert residual (to be used as an aggregate in cement). The reformation process converts organic (carbonaceous) materials into a synthesis gas that is fed into a turbine/engine to generate electrical power or can be used as a bio-fuel. Elementa’s
commercially viable, single continuous process of core conversion technology is based on the chemistry of steam reforming augmented by the company’s patents, licenses and intellectual property. The process significantly outperforms emission guidelines, including some of the toughest in the world of the European Union, California and Ontario, Canada.
The City of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada in a landmark first of its kind in Canada 20-year agreement effective in 2011, has committed to supply and divert all of its curbside municipal solid waste to Elementa’s new full-scale plant. This will be a seamless transition as municipal trucks will continue to collect refuse as usual, but instead of dumping the contents at the landfill, they will deliver the contents to Elementa’s $33.6 million facility and pay Elementa a $60/tonne tipping fee. Elementa will utilize its patented clean energy non-incineration conversion technology and proprietary processess to reform 35,000 tonnes annually of MSW into clean renewable energy. This facility will generate an estimated six megawatts of electrical power for the grid, enough electricity to power approximately 6,000 homes. It will also contribute to cleaner air by reducing green house gases by over 24,000 tonnes annually, which is the equivalent to taking 4,800 cars off the road. Eliminating landfill activities also contributes to cleaner land and water by eliminating leaching and related problems.
The landfill site in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada has an estimated 8-10 years left at which estimates indicate the costs to replace the landfill at well over $100 million. The Elementa solution will eliminate the need for a new landfill site. Furthermore, it offers the ultimate opportunity, to mine garbage, which would actually reduce and eliminate waste at existing landfill sites.
Canadian Company Leading The World With Patented Non-Incineration EFW Process
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