Tennessee City Receives $250,000 State Grant for Waste-to-Energy Project

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--PHG Energy (Nashville, Tennessee) has been contracted to build a waste-to-energy plant for the city of Lebanon, Tennessee, which has received a $250,000 matching grant for the project. The project is aimed at reducing landfill usage and providing electrical power. The grant was made by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.

The plant will be constructed at the city's wastewater treatment facility and will gasify about 64 tons per day of landfill material into clean synthetic fuel to drive an internal combustion engine, which in turn will produce electricity. In September 2012, PHG Energy purchased exclusive intellectual property rights to the downdraft gasification technology from the Associated Physics of America (Greenwood, Mississippi).

The company also formed a partnership with Thompson Machinery Commerce Corporation (Nashville, Tennessee), which will provide the Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) (Peoria, Illinois) generator for the project.

A mixed blend of waste wood, scrap tires and sewer sludge will be converted into a fuel gas that will generate up to 300 kilowatts. It will provide enough electricity to run the waste-to-energy plant, as well as the wastewater treatment facility.

Capital costs to construct the plant are in the $3.5 million range. When preliminary design and permitting is complete, project construction is expected to begin in fourth-quarter 2015. The plant would begin generating power by mid-2016.

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