Waste to energy projects for Mexico

1. Waste-to-Energy
Summary
Mexico

2. A Typical Landfill in México

3. There are Few Engineered Landfills

4. MSW is often discarded

5. Using Garbage as an energy feedstock, solves
two problems:
• It provides infrastructure to generate more
electricity.
• It prevents current and future pollution of
ground water resources.

6. Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is “renewable”
because garbage is not depleted over time.

7. Renewable Garbage
• The Utility Grid in Mexico is Now Open to
“Wheel” Renewable Power
• The Company can convert household garbage
into renewable electricity for sale to end-users

8. Energy Equivalents
• 1 ton of garbage contains 15 MM BTU
• The equivalent of 2.5 barrels of oil
• 1 ton of MSW in converted into 1 MW of
renewable power, with a value of USD $100
when sold for $0.10/kWh.

9. WestFab Pilot-Plant Built for The UC.

10. Waste-to-Energy Business:
• Produce RDF-Fluff from MSW
• Produce clean-fuel gas, & generate electricity
• The Company will develop and execute
projects, sell equipment systems, participate
in facility operations, and own project.

11. MSW is processed to make RDF-Fluff

12. Two stages of shredding makes RDF-Fluff

13. RDF-Fluff is stored on a Walking-Floor

14. Plan for a renewable waste-to-energy facility.
Gasifier/Power Island
Feedstock Receiving &
Processing

15. Revenues
Revenues come from:
• The design & sale of equipment systems
• Long-term operating agreements
• Ownership of projects

16. Design proposed for a 500 ton/day
waste-to-energy facility.
Feedstock Receiving &
Processing

17. “Nail it, then Scale it”
Starting at 80 ton/day, the system will
be scaled to greater than 700 ton/day.
Risk is minimized by replicating
systems that are well-known, with
proven economic output.

18. Market Size and Economic Opportunity
• A city of 180,000 residents generates about
250 wet-ton per day of garbage
• Will generate about 10 MW/hr of electricity
• With gross revenue of about $8,000,000/yr for
20-years (with modest escalation).

19. The capital cost for a 10 MWe project is
projected at $30 million US dollars.

20. Presenting Waste-to-Energy to the Cabildo

21. The Company has tentative commitments for the following:
Location Size Electric Power
Produced
Cost
Demonstration, Ensenada 10 ton/day 0.2 MWe $ 1.7 Million
City 80 ton/day 3.3MWe $ 14 Million
City 80 ton/day 3.3 MWe $ 14 Million
City 160 ton/day 7 MWe $ 24 Million
City 300 ton/day 12 MWe $ 36 Million
City 500 ton/day 20 MWe $ 60 Million
City 700 Ton/day 30 MWe $ 90 Million
City 1050 ton/day 43MWe $130 Million
TOTAL 2,880 ton/day 118.9 MWe $ 307 Million

22. Projections
• The facilities that are planned will result in gross sales of
$307 million.
• The company expects to generate 10% profit on gross
equipment sales -- about $30 million.
• The company intends to build at least a dozen additional
projects during the next 5-years.
• We expect to generate over 330 MWe, with a cost of
approximately 1 billion dollars, with $100 million revenue.

23. The Company has developed
modern gasification technology to
handle MSW with residual plastics.
What is “gasification”?

24. Cars Used Wood-Gasification For Fuel

25. Vehicle have “wood gasifiers” on the back

26. History of Gasification
• Gasification is a well-established method for
converting solid fuels into gaseous clean-fuels.
• Several hundred thousand vehicles
throughout Europe used wood as the fuel
source during the war years.
• Gasification was the method used to make
clean-fuel-gas to replace liquid fuels.

27. Fluid Bed Gasification is Used to Make
Clean Fuel-Gas

28. The gasification reactor converted RDF-Fluff into
fuel-gas that is scrubbed and cleaned to make
renewable fuel-gas.

29. Generators to Produce Electricity
• Clean fuel-gas is used to power traditional
prime movers to make electricity:
• Reciprocating engine-generators for smaller
projects.
• Gas turbines are used for very large projects.

30. Reciprocating Engine used for electric
power production

31. Gas Turbines used for Power Generation

32. Air Emissions Control:
• The primary source of emissions comes from the
reciprocating engines or gas turbines exhaust.
• Emissions control systems are used to reduce emissions to
levels below the regulatory limits.
• Regulated pollutants generated by the engines are
anticipated to be well below the regulatory limits.
• Trace contaminants in the engine exhaust, including volatile
organic compounds (VOC), are removed via bio-filtration.

33. Renewable Electricity is the Product

34. Previous Projects

35. Energy Environmental Research (EER)

36. University of California

37. MSW Gasification for Proler International
Taylor, (in white) Houston, Texas