“Each year the U.S. sends material to landfills all over the country that could be recovered to generate clean electrical energy. Under current practices, this discarded material eventually decomposes in the landfill to release methane and carbon dioxide greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere,” Williams said. "Our gasification technology would not only reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emission, but could be used to convert this material into enough electricity to meet more than 1 percent of the total energy demand in the United States.”
And since energy demands are a concern around the globe, Innviron projects aren’t limited to the domestic sphere. The company has already improved waste management facilities abroad, particularly in the Middle East. “Because of its climate and culture, the Middle East and North Africa present a variety of special challenges to the environmentally responsible management of solid waste,” he explained. “Innviron has carried out a number of projects in the region, including facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Algeria. Most recently we have undertaken a landfill waste-to-energy gasification project in Turkey.”
Innviron's waste management developments go beyond its gasification technology. “Our company provides engineering design, permitting, and project management services for a variety of solid waste management and waste-to-energy facilities in the US and overseas,” Williams said. Innviron staff also co-invented a new lining system that is now mandatory in newly constructed landfills throughout the United States and in several other nations.
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