[Gasification] From yard trash to treasure: City to unveil green fuels depot - 15 kWe Gasifier

Tom Miles tmiles at trmiles.com
Wed Nov 23 08:57:01 CST 2011


 

http://triblocal.com/naperville/2011/11/18/from-yard-trash-to-treasure-city-
to-unveil-green-fuels-depot/

 

By Mick Swasko TribLocal reporter Friday at 2:14 p.m.

Some Naperville yard trash will soon be the city's treasure.

The city will unveil a new "green fuels depot" next week, a facility that
can convert yard waste into electricity - which the city can put back into
the power grid or charge electric vehicles - ethanol and hydrogen. The
ethanol will be used to fill the tanks of the city's FlexFuel vehicles.

"It's the first unit of its type that will take waste material, organic
material, and convert it into one of three fuels," said Councilman Bob
Fieseler, who worked with Naperville-based Packer Engineering to bring the
technology to the city along with Councilman Grant Wehrli.

Fieseler compared the technology to a self-cleaning oven, where matter is
heated in an oxygen-deprived environment. The same will be true with the
facility's "gasifier," which will burn wood chips collected from back and
front yards in the city. The actual machine is no larger than a refrigerator
unit at a supermarket, and the only evidence that it's running is visible
steam on a cold day.

The equipment is owned by Packer Engineering, but the city provided land and
space for it to be beta-tested, Fieseler said. He said the company hopes to
test the commercial viability of the system in Naperville, in hopes of
marketing the idea to other municipalities and small farms.

"It's a pilot program," he said. "This is putting a demonstration unit that
Packer already has to real-world use."

Naperville Tribune

 

Packer Engineering http://www.packereng.com/

 

Naperville Green Fuels Depot
http://www.naperville.il.us/greenfuelsdepot.aspx

 

 

 

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