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•Safety •Debris •Perimeter Alternative Fuels

TIRE-FIRED PLANT NETS •Hardware ’SYSTI S J/lanufacture

t. SET FOR NEVADA A PATENTED GENERAUON TECHNOLOGY that produces salable by-products from A combustion of waste tires with ultra­ low levels of harmful emissions will give new meaning to “burning rubber.” Ca.stle %00-24f?7330 Rock, Colo.-based Nathaniel Energy I bftftSdc Ma.n 50.0, Box 1019,Beep Rim, CT 064^7 • Te! 860-526-8004 • Fax S6Q-526-4858 Corp.’s proprietary “thermal combustor” [Leading Edge Souft.P.O. Box 540038. Merrit Wand, FL 32S54 • Tei: 321-454-4209 ♦ Fax. 321-454- will be the core of a 25-M w prototype tire- fueled powerplant in Tonopah, Nev. Under a memorandum of understand­ isi .....i ing signed last month, the Science and Technology Regional Development ' ,4!- Corp., Nye (bounty’s development entity, MVB • ' • will provide land and grant tissistance in exchange for economic development by A a Nathaniel Energy. The $25-million proj­ « ect, scheduled to start construction in January, will become the anchor tenant of a 3,100-acre industrial park. ..J “We’re working oti a master plan to include similar environmentally minded industrial facilities,” says Dennis Chavez, ction wi Nye County manager. Industrial Systems Inc., Delta, Colo., will perform as engi­ sllSft; ft neering, procurement and construction . -.ft . contractor. The facility will consist of five combustors, five 8,5-million-btu-per-honr /f33O Jay Stri boilers and a 25-Mw steam turbine. Tire.s shredded into 2-in.-minus chunk.s Brooklyn, Nl, IB® are to be combusted in a two-stage gasi­ fication proce.ss, with temperature.s reach­ ing 3,000° to 4,000°E The vendor says TSitexingi 11 Ave f M that high heat, nearly double that of a standard burner, helps bring harmful Manhattan, I V ’ 1 emissions 8 to 10 time.s below current Environmental Protection Agency re­ New Bronx Crii A'' ’ quirements. The process also has a 40% fuel efficiency and uses under 1,000 gal Court Complex H-'-'b/ of water per day. Salable byproducts include carbon black, CO^ and sulfur. Bronx.NY “We have made a large effort to make it as clean as possible,” says Brian Culvey, inn MB Nathaniel Energy’s vice president of en­ Manhattai gineering. “[The process] wa.s originally developed in the early 1980s and the F J ,,. .JM I’ " Tv . design has been modified over time. We can now meet ERA regulations through at least 2010." “Since tires are made mostly from oil, I they have a high energy content,” says flEO Stan Abrams. “It’.s a cheaper kilo­ watt per hour than gas or coal, because '«nclo^g-, people pay us to take tires from them— ^•7^ Grays BMfF 1 so it’s a cost-negative fuel.” There were 5.6 billion tons of tires dis­ ^03.740.7^^^ carded last year, containing 32 million Btu per ton. says the Rubber Manufacturers 1'

Association, Washington, D.U. The Tono­ pah plant will burn about 10 million tires, or 100,000 tons, annually. □ 1 Tl

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