NPV’s zero-emission HTCW 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.
HTCW can process ALL waste categories, the sole exclusion being radioactive material. Across the developed world there’s a government set minimum charge/tax – “gate fee” – for landfill and/or incineration; NPV offers complete disposal/destruction at discounted fees that appeal to independent waste management operators.
Zero-emission, clean conversion process
HTCW – High Temperature Conversion of Waste – 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 process yielding up to five times more energy than incineration.
The science: HTCW operates at over twice the temperature, 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 HTCW micro power station generates up to 30 MWH always-on power; 263 gigawatt hours per year.
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, avoiding transmission costs, quota-related penalties, green levies, and utility providers’ mark-ups. HTCW 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.
