While visiting Solander business park we were taken through the process a new clean technology called vortex gasification which creates green energy. This plan creates heat for over 80% of Pitea, Sweden. The company MEVA is owned by a three groups both private and public, proving that the best technologies come from both the public and private sector.
In a general sense the process works like this:
1. The plant takes the black liquiour from the power plants and turns the product into bio fuel where:
Step 1: The product goes into the bio fuel handling system
Step 2: Fuel gas is produced in a cyclone reactor
Step 3: The gas is cleaned in a multi stage process
Step 4: Heat recovery from gasification process and engine and power production from the generator
Step 5: Clean power and heat for local use of Pitea.
In addition Volvo has manufactured truck that will use the biofuel produced.
Collaborations with projects like these make progress for a more environmentally concious future! Let’s hear it for MEVA!
Luisa Villatoro, Jonathan Ruffalo, Ebrahim
