WestFab's waste-to-energy technology ready for commercial roll-out

 West Fabrication Institute has developed a biomass and/or waste to energy technology using a dual fluid bed pyroxy process with refinements by Donald Gene Taylor. So biomass goes in, and fuel or electricity comes out. Same for municipal solid waste. PES introduces financial opportunity.

The Process Development Unit shown above was constructed by West Fab for the University of California and West Biofuels LLC. Dual-fluid-Bed technology is used to convert biomass feedstocks into liquids & gases. The dual-fluid-bed and related subsystems are presently being tested by the University of California for commercialization.

West Fabrication Institute has developed a biomass and/or waste to energy technology using a dual fluid bed pyroxy process with refinements by Donald Gene Taylor. So biomass goes in, and fuel or electricity comes out. Same for municipal solid waste.

The basic technology has been thoroughly tested since the 1980s, and the improvements by Taylor have been tested as well, including most recently by the University of California, with commercial feasibility strongly indicated from the results derived so far.

Taylor is now looking to implement commercial operations. The engineers at Nexant (San Francisco spin-off of Bechtel) who have been involved in the design and testing of the WestFab technology say they are comfortable designing the technology for plant capacities of up 1000 ton/day for a single train.

My sister, Karie, put me in touch with him today, and I introduced him to a guy who phoned me last week saying he represents a bonding agency that is looking to put $300 million into a municipal solid waste to energy technology. The thing is, in order for that to go through, there has to be another agency willing to back the bond or stand as collateral, in order for the funds to be released. They said I could mention this in our coverage in case one or more of you who reads this might be in a position to help secure this.

Supporting documents are available from both West Fabrication and from the bonding agency.

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See also

Relevant PESWiki pages

• Directory:West Fabrication Institute's Taylor/Pyrox Technology
• Directory:Waste to Energy 
• Directory:Biomass