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Eras Eco – the Cork-based waste treatment and recycling company – has selected SCFI and it’s AquaCritox technology to be a part of a new €10M development at Youghal that it is seeking permission to build. The announcement was featured in the “Sunday Business Post” on January 16th, 2011. You can read a copy of the article here.
Read MoreAquacritox was featured on the Discovery Channel ‘Dean of Invention’ show. The episode entitled ‘Gonzo for Guano’ included footage and interviews from the Aquacritox Demonstration site and premiered November 11th 2010. To download the file, click here.
Inventor Dean Caiman, delves into how emerging technologies can produce renewable energy from sewage sludge and biosolids. The Aquacritox supercritical water oxidation process will be featured and magic behind how the energy is released, without dewatering the sludge, will be outlined.
Read MoreSewage sludge is a potential source of energy. A kilogram of dried sewage sludge contains approximately 20,000 BTU’s of energy. The challenge with releasing this energy is that sewage sludge, when collected from the bottom of a clarifier is 99% water. In order to release the energy present through gasification, pyrolysis or incineration, the water must be removed before oxidation in air can occur. This requires thickening mechanical dewatering and thermal drying. Supercritical water oxidation offers the potential to release all of the energy present in sludge, without first having to dewater the sewage sludge.
General Arrangement for Aquacritox Plant
Download PDF – Water Science & Technology Paper (106KB)
Want to know what supercritical water is all about? Check out this MP4 video.
http://smsc.cnes.fr/IcDECLIC/films/DECLIC_V2_VA.mp4
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