Tennessee Gasification-WTE Plant Enters Service

摘要

Nashville-based PHG Energy (PHGE) and global energy-technology giant GE announced December 18 the start-up of a gasification-based, waste-to-energy plant in Covington, Tenn. “GE’s ‘Clean-Cycle’ generator – based on the Organic Rankine cycle (ORC) technology – produces power by utilizing heat delivered through PHGE’s downdraft-gasification system and waste-mixing process,” according to the company. “The two companies successfully proved the coupling of the technologies in an extensive research and development project that resulted in the first collaboration. Now the system is deployed and functions using the city [of Covington’s] wood waste and sewer sludge. Previously both waste streams had been transported and dumped into landfills at considerable cost to the city,” according to PHGE