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Technology
Clean Solutions offers proprietary patented waste to energy solutions that provide economically viable and environmentally friendly alternatives to waste disposal via landfills or incineration. The technologies are proven and operational commercial scale facilities and can be visited by appointment.
Learn more about the proprietary waste to energy technologies we represent. A password is required to access each technology. Register to obtain your password.
Clean Solutions Co. has worldwide rights to market, sell and arrange licensing for the technologies we represent.
We have created the acronym TWTEY™ (Transforming Waste To EnergY) to represent this new eco-friendly hybrid business/technology package. Explore TWTEY™ below and find more specifics regarding the technologies we represent in our links to the left.
Our Innovative Hybrid Technology/Business Model - TWTEY™ (Transforming Waste to EnergY)
A proprietary process that utilizes the optimum features and component processes of both gasification and pyrolysis. The TWTEY™ Hybrid allows diverse waste input streams to be thermally cracked thus breaking the molecular chain and producing syngas. This process produces a highly efficient waste disposal system that both reduces environmental pollution while qualifying as Green Renewable Energy.
Gasification
Gasification is a thermal process of converting a solid or liquid into a gas. In the energy industry gasification is used as a process to convert carbonaceous material, such as, wood, rubber, plastics, biomass or even fossil fuels into primarily carbon monoxide and hydrogen with Carbon Dioxide as a minor product. This is achieved by reacting the raw material at high temperatures (above 800 F) with a controlled amount of oxygen. The resulting gas mixture is called synthesis gas or syngas and is itself a fuel. Gasification is a very efficient method for extracting energy from many different types of organic materials, and also has applications as a clean waste disposal technique.
Gasification runs on a wider variety of input materials, can be used to produce a wider variety of output fuels, and is an extremely efficient method of extracting energy from biomass. Thus, gasification may be an important technology for renewable energy. In particular biomass gasification is carbon neutral.
Pyrolysis
Pyrolysis is a process of thermal cracking, also known as thermal decomposition. This process occurs when organic or carbonaceous material is heated to high temperatures (above 500 F) in the absence of Oxygen. Any Volatile organic Compounds (VOC’s) are cracked and subsequently released (vaporized) from the solid state and a carbon char product remains. The process is dependent on the properties of the primary material and this also determines the structure and composition of the vaporized VOC’s and carbon char. In some applications it is advantages to further reduce the char using gasification reactions. Volume and weight are reduced by 70 to 90 percent depending on the nature of the carbonaceous material.
The application of pyrolysis to waste management is well established and is used as a form of thermal treatment to reduce waste volumes and produce liquid or gaseous fuels as a by-product.
A Brief History (Not of Everything)
Pyrolysis has been around for donkey’s years and gasification is not new either. Despite the promise of both technologies it is the gasification process which has enjoyed more popularity and success.
Our proprietary processes underwent thorough and lengthy pilot phases. The results were impressive and warranted expanding the operation. Customers wanted to see operating commercial scale plants with operational data. This was accomplished providing you the ability to see hard data as well as the opportunity to visit the plants and “kick the tires.”
The Present, Facts, and Why Now?
Annually the USA alone creates and dumps in landfills over 300 million tons of construction and demolition waste (C&D), Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), and related waste streams. Landfills generate methane and carbon dioxide. Each ton of landfill waste generates about 1.8 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas over the life of the landfill. Landfills currently are the largest single source of manmade methane gas emissions. They total roughly 8% of the greenhouse gases being generated.
One of the major limitations to the spread of new technology is old thinking and entrenched ways of doing things. The price and impacts of fossil fuels along with other man made by-products have changed our planet both positively and negatively. There are major incentives to embrace renewable efficient alternative clean energy sources.
We need rapid meaningful change in order to address our challenging global trends. Solar and wind power, like our hybrid technologies, all produce clean power. In addition TWTEY™ eliminates old and new sources of pollution while changing the business model. At Clean Solutions we strive to be a part of the emerging solutions by embracing worthwhile technology, sound economics and positive outcomes on all levels.
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