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Carbon Sequestration Makes for Clean Energy, Future Revenue06-05-09 | News

Carbon Sequestration Makes for Clean Energy, Future Revenue

The feedstock that goes into the gastrification process can include municipal solid waste, rubber tires, sewage sludge, agricultural waste, biomedical materials, and even macadamia shells.
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How do you reclaim carbon to create energy-efficient applications while also generating a revenue stream?

Honolulu-based TN Design Assoc. is working with Oahu, Hawaii-based Carbon Diversion, Inc. to facilitate the development of carbon reactor plants for carbon sequestration, a process of capturing carbon from waste products to create new, sustainable products.

TN Design has been retained by CDI to do all facilities planning and marketing for CDI plants. Newberry says his firm does the fact finding for the CDI plants, as if for an architectural project. The plant reactors serve small and rural communities and are designed to be easily transported. CDI?EUR??,,????'?????<

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The process utilizes carbonization reactors that are 10 feet tall and three feet in daimeter. Cannisters are loaded with feedstock and the cannister is put into the reactor, which generates its own heat. At the end of the process the cannisters are removed and placed in water to cool. Eight cannisters are burned in an eight hour shift, and the end product is carbon. No emissions are released.

CDI was formed in 2004 to commercialize its patented carbonization technology, originally developed with the University of Hawaii Energy lab. CDI processes waste, or feedstock, that otherwise would be landfill-bound into carbon chars using a gastrification process. Gastrification is a method for extracting energy from many different types of materials.

Source: Russell Boniface, AIA