NPV’s zero-emission technology diverts landfill to grid-scale electricity production, cleanly and completely processing all non-recyclable materials and landfill waste other waste-to-energy technologies can’t.
Power from diverted landfill
Waste is recycled, burnt or dumped. Landfill and incineration are environmentally problematic yet account for >70% of the billions of tonnes of waste – including plastics – developed countries throw away each year. Even recycled materials eventually end up in a bin. As a feedstock, diverted landfill waste is available indefinitely, and there will always remain a selection of waste categories that cannot be safely incinerated or commercially recycled.
NPV’s gasification technology can process ALL waste categories, the sole exclusion being radioactive material.
The net power yield has been independently validated at 5 MWH per tonne of feedstock.
Zero-emission, clean conversion process
NPV’s conversion process is not incineration; there is no burning involved, meaning no smoke, no flame, no ash, no pollution – it is a totally sealed, highly efficient chemical conversion yielding up to five times more energy than incineration.
The science: the reactor operates at over twice the maximum temperature reached by incineration, at which point materials introduced to the conversion chamber are vaporised. The gaseous mixture is exported, cleaned and processed into synthetic gas (syngas) using standard processing equipment.
Impurities are removed; metals & commercial by-products tapped/recovered for resale; the result is a clean, pure, low carbon & hydrogen-rich syngas piped directly into high output gas turbine generators. Because carbon is captured/reduced within the process, it qualifies for REGO in the UK
Grid-scale power, without the grid
Each NPV micro power station generates 35 MWH always-on power, and can be scaled in 17.5 MWH increments.
Grid-scale output – without the grid – NPV’s power stations are built at the point of demand, not at the fuel source – and are connected directly to customer substations or over an existing local power network, reducing transmission costs, quota-related penalties, carbon taxes, and utility providers’ mark-ups. NPV provides continuous & secure supply to large round-the-clock power users such as data centres, logistics hubs, and energy-intensive manufacturing.
Land use? The entire facility occupies 2 hectares/5 acres. Once permissions and licenses are secured, NPV can build and commission each power station in less than 2 years.
