Teru Talk
Newsletter
Volume I, Issue
10
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May 2,
2011
Teru Talk
by Michael Theroux
(pronounced
"Terú")
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Teru's Trash
Talk
It's time to
talk Heat Recovery,
waste heat recovery to
be exact. There are very few
waste conversion projects than
cannot be made better
economically and
environmentally by thoroughly
integrating recovery and use of
the heat generated. Where there
isn't any "sensible heat", that
is, where you can sense
a change in the temperature,
there is probably a need for
added heat or cooling. This is
an area many project developers
continue to neglect, failing to
look at optimizing the
thermal balance as a way
of pushing a marginal project
into positive economics. We've
covered a couple waste heat
related items in this past
week, and will hunt down more.
If you have current waste heat
projects underway or can
provide real-world case
studies, let us know and we'll
shine some of our light on your
efforts.
Hey
Rube!
Teru Talk is
starting to see more and more
global Conversion Community
reference made to California's
Low Carbon Fuel Standard
(LCFS). It's a work in progress
and Teru is directly involved.
You need to be too if you make
solid, liquid or gaseous fuels
that can displace Good Old
Petroleum. It is time to
contact the California Air
Resources Board (ARB) to
discuss your own "Low
Carbon Biofuels Pathway". If
the biofuels Path you follow is
already identified, you need to
make sure you know which one of
the less-than-20-odd methods
you can claim. If your Path is
blessedly unique, you
really need to contact
the ARB, and start adding your
"specs" to the growing
doctrine. This will be worth
$$, folks, and before too very
long. The LCFS reports are due
to the Governor before the end
of
2011.
The Week's Extra
Reading
New Article:
Maintainable
Environmentalism
- Will the Real "Environmental
Community" Please Stand Up? A
discussion of waste conversion
and the environmental
community.
New Focus
Report:
Green
California Summit
2011
.
Teru was there, looking for
waste conversion at the Green
California Summit and
Expo.
The Week's
News
Nature's Fuel Breaks Ground on
Waste to Fuels
Plant
Multi-tech waste conversion
company Nature's Fuel has
broken ground on a
state-of-the-art recycling
facility and waste to fuels
plant at the Huntington
Landfill in Indiana.
04/29/2011
Proposed Kawartha Biogas Plant
Locating Adjacent to Ethanol
Facility
Ontario, Canada biogas company
PurEnergy, Inc, has proposed to
build and operate the Kawartha
Biogas anaerobic digestion (AD)
facility across the road from
Canada's newest corn ethanol
facility, Kawartha Ethanol.
04/29/2011
UC Davis Prof Receives NSF
Award for Microbial Enzymatics
RD
Assistant Professor of
Biological and Agricultural
Engineering Tina Jeoh at
University of California, Davis
(UC Davis) has received a
$407,573 National Science
Foundation (NSF) CAREER award
to support her study of
microbial enzymatic breakdown
of cell walls for biofuels and
bio-products development.
04/29/2011
REI Grant Will Fund Nepal
Biogas
Development
REI Adventures in partnership
with the Bonneville
Environmental Foundation has
awarded an $87,000 grant to the
non-profit Nepal SEEDS to help
install nearly 100 biogas
systems over the next three
years in Nepal.
04/29/2011
Edinburgh Starts Food Waste
Recycling
Pilot
The City Council of Edinburgh,
Scotland is asking 20,000
residents to take part in a
food waste recycling pilot
program. Best collection
methods will be explored for
different types of houses and
using various kitchen food
waste containers.
04/29/2011
KGRA to Convert Weyerhaeuser
Waste Heat to Renewable
Energy
Ayden HTP Partners LLC, a
subsidiary of KGRA Energy LP,
has signed a waste heat to
energy contract with
Weyerhaeuser for installation
of a heat recovery and 800
kilowatt Rankin cycle energy
generation system.
04/29/2011
BioJet Negotiates with Avjet
Biotech to Build
Biorefineries
North Carolina based Avjet
Biotech is in negotiations for
a strategic relationship with
BioJet International, an
international supply chain
integrator for renewable (bio)
jet fuel and related
co-products.
04/28/2011
South Carolina City Kicks Off
Southern Fried Fuel
Initiative
Residents in Columbus, South
Carolina can now take their
used cooking oil to a
residential drop-off center
that will collect and store
quantities of waste vegetable
oil to be converted into
biofuel and used to power one
of the City's garbage trucks
and other City vehicles.
04/27/2011
Intel's
Ocotillo
Campus Feeds CO2
Emissions to Algae for
Biodiesel
Intel's Ocotillo manufacturing
campus in Arizona is developing
a pilot project to feed their
CO2 boiler emissions to algae
for biodiesel production.
04/27/2011
Gevo and Mustang Sign Bio-Jet
Fuel
Agreement
Colorado based cellulosic
biofuels company Gevo has
executed an agreement with
Mustang Engineering, LP, for
engineering and consulting
services to convert Gevo's
isobutanol into a renewable jet
fuel.
04/27/2011
California Clean Energy
Campaign
Launched
The Clean Local Energy
Accessible Now for California
(CLEAN California) Campaign has
launched to help meet Governor
Brown's call for 12,000
megawatts of localized
electricity generation to be
installed in California
communities by 2020.
04/26/2011
CEC Schedules IEPR Workshop on
Renewable Localized
Energy
The California Energy
Commission's (CEC) Integrated
Energy Policy Report (IEPR)
Committee will hold a workshop
on Renewable Localized
Generation.
04/26/2011
Ameresco
Completes Dallas WWTP Biogas
Plant
The City of Dallas Water
Utility (DWU) and the
Framington, MA based energy
solutions provider Ameresco
have completed a 4.3 megawatt
biogas capture, refining and
combined heat and power (CHP)
system at DWU's 110 million
gallon per day wastewater
treatment plant (WWTP).
04/25/2011
West Coast Federal Green
Challenge
Launched
The West Coast Federal Green
Challenge was officially
launched on Earth Day 4/22/2011
as an expansion of the Federal
Green Challenge program
originally launched in 2008 in
EPA’s Pacific Northwest Region.
04/25/2011
Frontline Bioenergy and SGC
Energia Form
Partnership
Minnesota-based Frontline
Bioenergy has completed
licensing and engineering
agreements for their air and
oxygen-blown gasification
technology with SGC Energia, an
advanced biofuels development,
licensing, engineering,
construction, and production
company.
04/25/2011
The Week's
Action
Items
Nothing. Nada.
Feel free to put up your
feet.
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