Advantages

Our waste problem is no longer an environmental problem.

Empowering Communities

to make a difference...

Saving & Creating Revenue

Revenue from carbon credits, power and heat

UTOC qualifies for valuable carbon credits by significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. UTOC hot gas output can be converted into steam or hot liquid used by heat engines to generate electricity and for heating applications.

Reduce brownouts and blackouts with reliable power generation

Distributed, scalable (farm site/industrial park/community installations to multi Megawatt) EFW plants increase power supply reliability/security by reducing regional blackout/brownout risk

UTOC EFW plants have higher power generation reliability (approximately 95%) than hydroelectric, solar, and wind facilities that depend on climatic events and trends of nature

Lowest cost CHP

UTOC has the lowest Capital Expenditure and Operating and Maintenance costs for a sustainable thermal Energy From Waste process.

Financing, speculative risk and environmental licensing costs are far below those of “Mega” power generation projects because UTOC EFW capacity is incremental and distributed as required. Can be end-of-line electric power plants in existing grids, eliminating the impacts on ecological systems that often occur with “Mega” projects.

Continuous, self-sustaining operation

No fossil fuel or other thermal input after start-up preheat.

Reduce transportation/transmission costs

UTOC Energy-from-Waste (EFW) systems distributed throughout urban areas shorten garbage haul and electric power distribution distances.

Easy Operation

Auto adjusts energy output

Auto-modulates energy output as low as 15% of design capacity to match downstream load requirements and feedstock availability.

Auto adjusts to variable feedstock

Auto adjusts to random, rapid changes in feedstock caloric and water contents

Operate in any climate

UTOC can operate outdoors in the planet’s most extreme climates.

Safe operation

A fail-safe gravity hot gas vent self-activates if the induced draft fan stops, reinstating negative interior pressure. Covered openings provide access into hot UTOC process chambers during operation for observations and maintaining optimal operation.

Eco-Friendly

Ultra-low emissions

Operating well above 1000°C allows less than 1% residual oxygen flameless combustion (a requirement for ultra low NOx) and less than 50% landfill carbon dioxide equivalent emissions.

The UTOC outputs no liquid waste streams; no combustible vapours escape as they are burned in less than 3 seconds.

Quiet, odourless and efficient

100% conversion efficiency (only metal & mineral feedstock fractions exit in ash), quiet and odourless operation

No particulate liberating turbulence

UTOC requires only Time and Temperature of the 3 T's of combustion. Turbulence, the aggressive mixing of air with fuel, is neither required nor desired in the UTOC.

Eco-Restorative

Eliminate hazardous liquids

Capable of processing up to 65% water content fuels as could result when adding sewage, pesticides, insecticides, hazardous chemicals, etc. into solid feedstocks.

Reduce sewage-borne disease

UTOC complete thermal destruction of manures and sewage sludges, with their inherent pathogens, disrupts disease cycles by minimizing uncontrolled in-species and cross-species antibiotic accumulations that lead to undesired “low dose” medication effects in the food chain and diminished efficacy of medically administered antibiotics.

Ash has commercial use

Depending on laboratory analyses, UTOC ash can be used as fertilizer or asphalt/concrete aggregate

Reduce fossil fuel dependency

By significantly reducing demand for fossil fuels in energy production, we better preserve our national resources, lower costs and ease the expense and tension of acquiring foreign supplies.