64 TPD Plant to Process Waste Tyres & Other Feedstock : Downdraft Gasification Waste to Energy Plant Due Online in Tennessee
A 64 tonne per day downdraft gasification waste to energy plant is to open In Lebanon, Tennessee in the coming weeks.
Claimed to be the largest plant of its type in the world, the waste to energy plant has been designed and built by Nashville based PHG Energy the company's patented technology as the core of the system.
The company said that individual components are currently being brought on line in preparation for full startup in the coming weeks.
At a recent ceremony at the plant Mayor Philip Craighead hosted his legislative counterparts from nearby municipal and county governments recently for a preview tour of the site.
"This facility is going to be a model for public/private partnerships to cleanly dispose of waste and produce green energy," he told the group.
"The next stage will be utilising this technology to solve our ongoing municipal garbage situation, and give us all a much more sustainable and cleaner option than dumping waste into landfills,” continued the mayor.
The plant will process scrap tyres, commercial wood waste and biosolids from the wastewater treatment plant and has a 64 tonne per day capacity.
The project received a direct $250,000 grant from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, and benefited from $3.5 million in financing assistance through a Federal energy program.
It is expected to produce enough electricity to power about 350 homes annually and produce a high carbon biochar that will be sold for agricultural purposes.
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