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plant room at Energos' Sarpsborg facility10 January 2012
Energos Holdings, a UK based gasification specialist and a part of the ENER-G group, has acquired waste to energy company, BioGen Power through a share swap arrangement.
According to Energos it had already been a gasification technology partner to BioGen Power and held 28% shareholding in the business, and has now released shares to the former BioGen Power owners as part of the reciprocal agreement.
The company said that the acquisition brings together a joint portfolio of six fully consented UK sites, with a total generating capacity of 60 MW and waste treatment capacity of 650,000 tonnes, plus additional sites in the development pipeline.
In addition, the company claimed that over a 15 year period the seven previously developed Energos waste gasification facilities across Northern Europe, have a combined operating experience of almost 500,000 hours.
According to Nick Dawber, managing director of Energos the acquisition brings specialist planning and waste contracting expertise into the organisation, while the combined portfolio of development-ready sites and pipeline of opportunities - now under the control of Energos - provides an exciting opportunity to deliver a UK network of small-scale advanced thermal conversion plants.
Energos' said that its gasification technology is an advanced thermal treatment process that converts residual, non-recyclable waste into a gas by using the heat of partial combustion to free hydrogen and carbon in the waste.
Residual waste is fed into the gasification chamber, where it is converted into a syngas. This syngas is then transferred to a secondary oxidation chamber where it is mixed with air and recycled flue gas under tightly controlled conditions that ensures complete and efficient combustion resulting in reduced emissions in the flue gases.
According to the company, a typical plant can generate 9 MW of electricity from a variety of waste streams. This would equate to the output of 15 large wind turbines. In addition Energos claimed that the facilities are compact, with a building height of around 18 metres that does not dominate the skyline.
"Our community-sized model of operation means that the renewable energy facilities can sit alongside businesses and supply them with heat. Financial viability is increased by our ability to utilise the full combined heat and power potential of waste and flexibility to process a mixed residual waste feed," commented Dawber.
"This offers commercial waste operators a proven, cost effective, environmentally friendly alternative to mass-burn incineration and landfill for their non-recyclable, non-hazardous waste streams," he added.
Energos said that it expects to start construction on two of its six approved sites in 2012, with the remaining sites in the following two years.
The consented sites are at: Knowsley, Merseyside; Irvine, Scotland; Newport, South Wales; Barry, South Wales; Doncaster, Yorkshire; and Bradford, Yorkshire. BioGen Power has closed its Blackpool office, with staff relocating to Energos' headquarters in Warrington, Cheshire.
Energos Holdings, a UK based gasification specialist and a part of the ENER-G group, has acquired waste to energy company, BioGen Power through a share swap arrangement.
According to Energos it had already been a gasification technology partner to BioGen Power and held 28% shareholding in the business, and has now released shares to the former BioGen Power owners as part of the reciprocal agreement.
The company said that the acquisition brings together a joint portfolio of six fully consented UK sites, with a total generating capacity of 60 MW and waste treatment capacity of 650,000 tonnes, plus additional sites in the development pipeline.
In addition, the company claimed that over a 15 year period the seven previously developed Energos waste gasification facilities across Northern Europe, have a combined operating experience of almost 500,000 hours.
According to Nick Dawber, managing director of Energos the acquisition brings specialist planning and waste contracting expertise into the organisation, while the combined portfolio of development-ready sites and pipeline of opportunities - now under the control of Energos - provides an exciting opportunity to deliver a UK network of small-scale advanced thermal conversion plants.
Energos' said that its gasification technology is an advanced thermal treatment process that converts residual, non-recyclable waste into a gas by using the heat of partial combustion to free hydrogen and carbon in the waste.
Residual waste is fed into the gasification chamber, where it is converted into a syngas. This syngas is then transferred to a secondary oxidation chamber where it is mixed with air and recycled flue gas under tightly controlled conditions that ensures complete and efficient combustion resulting in reduced emissions in the flue gases.
According to the company, a typical plant can generate 9 MW of electricity from a variety of waste streams. This would equate to the output of 15 large wind turbines. In addition Energos claimed that the facilities are compact, with a building height of around 18 metres that does not dominate the skyline.
"Our community-sized model of operation means that the renewable energy facilities can sit alongside businesses and supply them with heat. Financial viability is increased by our ability to utilise the full combined heat and power potential of waste and flexibility to process a mixed residual waste feed," commented Dawber.
"This offers commercial waste operators a proven, cost effective, environmentally friendly alternative to mass-burn incineration and landfill for their non-recyclable, non-hazardous waste streams," he added.
Energos said that it expects to start construction on two of its six approved sites in 2012, with the remaining sites in the following two years.
The consented sites are at: Knowsley, Merseyside; Irvine, Scotland; Newport, South Wales; Barry, South Wales; Doncaster, Yorkshire; and Bradford, Yorkshire. BioGen Power has closed its Blackpool office, with staff relocating to Energos' headquarters in Warrington, Cheshire.
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