Friday, October 28, 2011

Waste to Energy?

Waste to Energy (WTE) & Biomass in California




Californians create nearly than 2,900 pounds of household garbage and industrial waste each and every second; a total of 85.2 million tons of waste in 2005 (according to the California Integrated Waste Management Board)! Of that, 43.2 million tons is recovered and recycled or used to make energy, but 42 million tons has to be disposed in landfills. Thanks to advances in technology, waste known as biomass, is put to valuable use producing electricity.
In 2007, 6,236 gigawatt hours of electricity in homes and businesses was produced from biomass: burning forestry, agricultural, and urban biomass; converting methane-rich landfill gas to energy (LFGTE); and processing wastewater and dairy biogas into useful energy. Biomass power plants produced 2.1 percent of the total electricity in California in 2007, or about one-fifth of all the renewable energy.

Why is biomass electricity important?

Using biomass to produce electricity reduces our reliance on fossil fuels, the nation's primary energy sources for electricity, and the largest contributors to air pollution and greenhouse gases. We will eventually run out of fossil fuels. Biomass electricity offers alternatives with many benefits:
  1. Our supply of biomass is renewable, meaning it will not run out.
  2. Electricity produced by biomass reduces the threat of global climate change.
  3. Using biomass waste eliminates the need to place it in landfills.
  4. Clearing biomass from wooded areas helps prevent forest fires.
  5. Using by-product methane gases to produce electricity eliminates odor and reduces air pollution in surrounding areas.   http://www.energy.ca.gov/biomass/


American Standard Renewable Energy Corp...
We ASRF are a Development, Management and Holding Company. We have developed a combined technology process to co-locate four separate, existing, proven, profitable, operational, American Made technologies, at a single site to be known as an Energy Center. 
These four, all EPA approved technologies will all be located together in one site; yet they will each operate completely independent of each other to process every form of waste, trash, rubbish and/or debris that is delivered daily to a landfill. By co-locating these technologies together we can add our own proprietary CNCT efficiency technology and significantly improve the operation of each process and therefore of the complete Energy Center. One cannot achieve the same levels of efficiency and profitability without combining the processes at a single location.
Process #4 of ASRF Energy Center is the heart of the entire operation. We propose a 2000 ton per day Plasma Arc Gasification plant that will produce 110 MWH of electricity and some other by products including vitrified glass for industrial use and Rockwool insulation production, co2 and other miscellaneous products. A 2000 ton per day facility may have as many as 14 X 200 ton per day Gasification Chambers. 
The end result is that we utilize all the waste that comes into the landfill, absolutely everything! We turn all that waste into clean green renewable energy and bio fuels. We have absolutely no waste and we create no measurable pollution of our own. Our facilities will be completely certified by one of several recognized and verified companies that we produce no waste or pollutant gasses and therefore we shall be classified as a net Carbon Credit producer generating millions of carbon credits annually from the inbound waste that we eliminate and along with the tons of green house gasses that we prevent from forming over the rotting life of the landfill.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

ASRF PRESS RELEASE


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                    


Contact:   HENRY R. FINN

Tel:            858-336-2040

Email:        henryf@asrfcorp.com



TRASH AND LANDFILL PROBLEMS SOLVED



Finally, an American company has combined the necessary technologies to actually solve the waste problem in an eco-friendly manner that eradicates trash with no waste or pollution.



American Standard Renewable Fuels Corp (ASRF), a California company established in 2007, has negotiated “Letters of Interest” from three States for Energy Centers to be constructed at municipal landfills where all incoming trash and stored refuse can be converted to clean green renewable energy and eco-friendly bio-fuels.



The technologies are all proven, operational, and American made, and all EPA approved.  We are ready to launch our development program immediately.  We create thousands of construction jobs, nearly a hundred long term good paying operational jobs at each Energy Center and additional jobs down the supply chain. We represent a new tax base for municipalities and we clean up millions of tons of waste and millions of tons of harmful greenhouse gasses. 



ASRF is aggressively pursuing the completion of their investment campaign started in 2011 to raise $15 million in corporate investment funding to finalize necessary studies and documentation to apply for building permits at their initial site location.



Bill Hieronimus, President and Chief Technical Officer of ASRF stated “It is time that companies not only think about surviving in a challenging economic situation but investing time and resources for the benefit of our future generations by actually solving a major problem in a responsible and eco-friendly manner”.



The ASRF combined technology package is so efficient and cutting edge that they have zero measurable pollution and zero waste back into the landfill.   The company’s CNCT proprietary process provides them with their unique long term sustainable advantage.  ASRF does it all at a landfill. If ASRF doesn’t do it who will?





For more information on AMERICAN STANDARD RENEWABLE FUELS, contact: HENRY R. FINN

Ph: 858-336-2040

American Standard Renewable Fuels Corp

9089 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, #208

San Diego, CA 92123

Friday, August 12, 2011

Eco-Friendly Solution for Governments and Taxpayers

Eco-Friendly Solution for Governments and Taxpayers

ASRF provides the city, county, municipality and/or landfill owner with viable, eco-friendly solutions to landfill management and waste conversion. By utilizing cutting edge technology ASRF provides a reduction in greenhouse gases, clean burning fuel, and will be self-sustaining by creating energy through the gasification of waste materials from the landfill.

In addition to the hundreds of construction jobs, one Energy Center will provide many high paying, long term, permanent jobs, and an economic activity increase benefit of hundreds of millions of dollars. The sales of ASRF end products will provide a rich source of revenue for partners as well.



The city, county or municipality will have the ability to convert its fleet of vehicles to E-85 (85% ethanol and 15% gasoline), liquid methane, or biodiesel fuels, further supporting the cleanup of local environments. Converting such vehicles to renewable sources of fuel contributes to the reduction of global warming, and encourages smart conversion of waste to green fuels. Not only will this have a significant effect on the environment, but with gas prices forecast to remain high and government budgets being squeezed by the current economic climate, the cost savings for fuel alone will be impactful.

Each site will have an Energy Center large enough to meet current and future demand, with the capability to be expanded with no disruption to any ongoing operations. Conversely, each facility will be built small enough to operate with total energy efficiency.

ASRF’s processes will lessen national petroleum gasoline needs, thereby reducing the nation’s dependency on imported and domestic crude oil - this dependency has caused serious financial and political issues for the United States.

Biofuels are the key to eradicating American reliance on foreign oil.

Monday, August 8, 2011

ASRF Environmental, and Economic Impacts

ASRF Process, Environmental, and Economic Impacts
The course has been charted to increase production of renewable fuels in the United States and around the world. This study will demonstrate and discuss the benefits of American Standard Renewable Fuels Corp viability, and all the benefits of our combined processes. Our combination of processes is unique, it is desperately needed, and no one truly addresses the waste of synergies that everyone else’s individual processes neglect, not to mention cleaning up the environment. We create so many positive things and make a great profit, while everyone else just makes money without any social conscience or positive environmental impact.
Corn vs. Cellulose, and the winner is? Haigwood (2008) provides the history, relationship, dynamics and necessity of corn and cellulosic ethanol. Critics that attack corn-based ethanol in favor of cellulosic ethanol need to develop a better understanding of how corn-based ethanol and cellulosic ethanol go hand-in-hand into the winner's circle. Corn-based ethanol has paved the way for the accelerated development of cellulosic ethanol. (Burl Haigwood, 2008)
An article recently published in Technology Review published by MIT clearly demonstrated why ASRF concepts are cutting edge and will maximize the use of any landfill existence. The article, Kevin Bullis (2008) “Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Opens”, a 1.4 million gallon demonstration-scale plant will use waste biomass to make Bio-fuels. The opening of the demonstration plant, and the current construction of a number of other demonstration- and commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plants, marks a turning point for the industry, Riva says. The development of improved enzymes and fermentation organisms means that no further scientific breakthroughs are needed to make cellulosic ethanol commercially successful, he says. "There's been a tremendous amount of background work in science and technology development," he says. "We've learned so much about the process that the really important thing now is to start to deploy the technology at a commercial scale."
The cellulosic ethanol process does create a waste stream of dead plant material known as (lignin). A standalone Cellulosic Ethanol Plant still has to get rid of all of their lignin therefore they are not a benefit to the land fill. We use this lignin as fuel in another part of the ASRF Energy Center. We sell the Ethanol to petroleum refineries and gasoline blending facilities. We also produce CO2 which is sold to the beverage industry. So we truly have no waste at all, from our cellulosic ethanol plant.
Can bio-diesel help mitigate “global warming”? (National Bio-Diesel Board 2008)
A 1998 bio-diesel lifecycle study, jointly sponsored by the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Agriculture, concluded bio-diesel reduces net CO² emissions by 78 percent compared to petroleum diesel. This is due to bio-diesel’s closed carbon cycle. The CO² released into the atmosphere when bio-diesel is burned is recycled by growing plants, which are later processed into fuel. Is bio-diesel safer than petroleum diesel? Scientific research confirms that bio-diesel exhaust has a less harmful impact on human health than petroleum diesel fuel. Bio-diesel emissions have decreased levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and nitrated PAH compounds that have been identified as potential cancer causing compounds.
Test results indicate PAH compounds were reduced by 75 to 85 percent, with the exception of benzo(a)anthracene, which was reduced by roughly 50 percent. Targeted PAH compounds were also reduced dramatically with bio-diesel fuel, with 2-nitrofluorene and 1-nitropyrene reduced by 90 percent, and the rest of the PAH compounds reduced to only trace levels.
Does bio-diesel cost more than other alternative fuels? When reviewing the high costs associated with other alternative fuel systems, many fleet managers have determined bio-diesel is their least-cost-strategy to comply with state and federal regulations. Use of bio-diesel does not require major engine modifications. That means operators keep their fleets, their spare parts inventories, their refueling stations and their skilled mechanics. The only thing that changes is air quality. A standalone Bio-Diesel plant has to use the highways and railroad lines in order to receive their raw material from many different sources which causes additional pollution.
ASRF doesn’t create any pollution of our own. Instead of dumping the grease into the land fill, we reprocess that waste grease into bio-diesel. The bio-diesel is used for trucks and other diesel engines such as generators, heavy machinery, etc. The two products we get from a bio-diesel plant are bio-diesel and pharmaceutical grade glycerin. The glycerin is used in many products, from ointments to carpet manufacturing.
Methane to Markets (http://www.methanetomarkets.org/landfills/landfills-bkgrd.htm). Each day millions of tons of municipal solid waste are disposed of in sanitary landfills and dump sites around the world. The implementation of landfill gas energy (LFGE) projects reduces greenhouse gases and air pollutants, leading to improved local air quality and reduced possible health risks. The major factors driving LFG emission levels are the amount of organic material deposited in landfills, the type of landfill practices, the extent of anaerobic decomposition, and the level of landfill methane recovery and combustion (e.g., energy use or flaring). LFG is extracted from landfills using a series of wells and a vacuum system, which directs the collected gas to a point to be processed. From there, the LFG can be used for a variety of purposes. One option is to produce electricity with engines, turbines, micro-turbines, and other technologies.
A second option is to process the LFG and make it available as an alternative fuel to local industrial customers or other organizations that need a constant fuel supply—direct use of LFG is reliable and requires minimal processing and minor modifications to existing combustion equipment. A third option is to create pipeline-quality gas or alternative vehicle fuel with LFG.
Methane is a primary constituent of landfill gas (LFG) and a potent greenhouse gas when released to the atmosphere. Reducing emissions by capturing LFG and using it as an energy source can yield substantial energy, economic, and environmental benefits. The implementation of landfill gas energy (LFGE) projects reduces greenhouse gases and air pollutants, leading to improved local air quality and reduced possible health risks. LFG projects also improve energy independence, produce cost savings, create jobs, and help local economies. Internationally, significant opportunities exist for expanding landfill gas energy. Every landfill has some level of Methane produced by the rotting garbage. ASRF uses this technology at landfills. If the landfill does not already capture this methane, we capture it through a piping process, scrub it and send it either to the electric generators or the boilers.
Renewable Energy Technologies, Cogeneration Technologies, Bio-fuel Industries (2008) explains extensively how a "plasma arc" plasma gasification plant operates on principles similar to an arc-welding machine, where an electrical arc is struck between two electrodes. The high-energy arc creates a high temperature, highly ionized gas. The plasma arc is enclosed in a chamber. Waste material is fed into the chamber and the intense heat of the plasma breaks down organic molecules into their elemental atoms. In a carefully controlled process, these atoms recombine into harmless gases such as carbon dioxide. With plasma arc technology there is no burning or incineration and no formation of ash.
Plasma arc" Plasma Gasification plants have a very high destruction efficiency. They are very robust; they can treat any waste with no pretreatment; and they produce a stable waste form. The consumable carbon electrodes are continuously inserted into the chamber, eliminating the need to shut down for electrode replacement or maintenance. The high temperatures produced by the arc convert the waste into light organics and primary elements.
Combustible gas is cleaned in the off-gas system and oxidized to CO2 and H2O in ceramic bed oxidizers. The potential for air pollution is low due to the use of electrical heating in the absence of free oxygen. The inorganic portion of the waste is retained in a stable, leach-resistant slag.
An ASRF Plasma Arc Gasification Plant has a limitless appetite and uses almost anything as fuel. We use up all of the plant material (lignin) left over from the ethanol plant. We can even take in large quantities of animal waste which is a problem in most farming communities. A final benefit of an ASRF Plasma Arc Gasification Plant is that recently collected trash is normally delivered to our facility 5 days per week from morning to evening. The plant consumes all the waste that is delivered. The plant itself works 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. When we have used up all the newly delivered trash we go back to the landfill and remove a number of tons per week from the trash reservoir to keep the plant running. Over a number of years we even use up all the stored trash and thus restore the landfill to its original condition or turn it into a park or other useful facility.
The PLASMA ARC facility is the heart of the overall process taking in every conceivable form of waste (except nuclear), lignin, waste from the bio-diesel, any hazardous material, solving sewage and farm waste problems which no one else is addressing, and making clean renewable electricity. Our combination of processes is unique, it is desperately necessary, and no one except us truly addresses the waste of everyone else’s individual processes as well as cleaning up the environment.
We help in so many positive ways with an apolitical problem solver that makes a great profit, while most companies focuses on the bottom-line without any social conscience or positive environmental improvements.


References:
Kevin Bullis Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Opens A 1.4 million gallon demonstration-scale plant will use waste biomass to make Biofuels. (Wednesday, May 28, 2008) . By http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/20828/page2/
Corn Vs. Cellulose: And The Winner Is? Burl Haigwood, Director of Program Development, Clean Fuels Development Center, http://www.cleanfuelsdc.org/
National Bio-Diesel Board (2008) http://www.biodiesel.org/resources/faqs/
Methane to Markets (http://www.methanetomarkets.org/landfills/landfills-bkgrd.htm)
Renewable Energy Technologies , Cogeneration Technologies, Biofuel Industries (2008) Solar Energy System, EcoGeneration Solutions LLC. Companies, E-mail: info @ cogeneration . net, Tel. (832) 758 - 0027
RECOMMENDATION/CONCLUSION
The course has been charted to increase production of renewable fuels in the United States and around the world. The benefits of the reduction of greenhouse gases should be embraced and maximized to further reduce the impact on our atmosphere. As a renewable fuels company, ASRF brings a number of benefits to the local environment. They include:
  • We consume all forms of waste
  • We provide real solutions for the elimination of waste
  • We are totally clean and environmentally safe
  • We have specialized financing to build complete Energy Centers
  • We reduce the need for oil imports
  • *** We have no direct competitors ***

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Limitless Appetite?

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. So governments' programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to ETERNAL LIFE we'll ever see on this earth.
Ronald Reagan "A TIME FOR CHOOSING (The Speech – October 27, 1964)"
"Similar to the government and it's LIMITLESS APPETITE, the Plasma Arc Gasification plant consumes ALL the waste that is delivered to a landfill. The plant itself works 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. When we have used up all the newly delivered trash we go back to the landfill and remove a number of tons per week from the trash reservoir to keep the plant running."
Bill H. -President and CTO  (ASRF)



The Plasma Arc Gasification Plant
Why is it needed?
The Plasma Arc Gasification Plant is the heart of American Standard Renewables Fuels energy centers. It is a closed loop system, which consumes all forms of municipal waste in a very low oxygen environment. So, there is NO burning of any kind, no emissions, and it eats up everything we throw in there. The only waste we cannot consume is nuclear waste. Everything else you can imagine is vaporized by our system.     
What is the technical process?
A "plasma arc" gasification plant operates on principles similar to an arc-welding machine, where an electrical arc is struck between two electrodes. The high-energy arc creates a high temperature, highly ionized gas. The plasma arc is enclosed in a chamber. Waste material is fed into the chamber and the intense heat of the plasma breaks down every manufactured product into basic elemental molecules. In a carefully controlled process, these atoms recombine into gases such as carbon dioxide. The heat from the gas generates electricity and waste heat is used to preheat boiler feed-water which improves the efficiency of that process. With plasma arc technology there is no burning or incineration and no formation of ash.
The Plasma Arc Gasification plant has very high destruction efficiency. They are robust and they can treat any waste with no pretreatment, and they produce a stable nontoxic slag.. The consumable carbon electrodes are continuously inserted into the chamber, eliminating the need to shut down for electrode replacement or maintenance. The high temperatures produced by the arc convert the waste into light organics and primary elements.
Combustible gas is cleaned in the off-gas system and oxidized to CO2 and H2O in ceramic bed oxidizers. The potential for air pollution is low due to the use of electrical heating in the absence of free oxygen. The inorganic portion of the waste is retained in a stable, leach-resistant slag.
The layman’s version:
The trash trucks arrive at our facility, which is in the same area the haulers have been taking all the trash to anyway. They dump everything into our hopper on the tipping floor. The trash is then processed through a crusher/shredder, kind of like your office paper shredder. The shredded trash then goes into another hopper which literally sprinkles this shredded trash over a wide band of electricity. This band of electricity runs at about 25,000 to 30,000 degrees Fahrenheit and turns most everything into a superheated vapor. This vapor is then run off to the boilers to run the generators and make electricity. Any of the trash that does not vaporize comes out in the form of a molten vitrified glass. This vitrified glass is used in road building; it is also used in the grinding industry, for strengthening concrete, and for making Rockwool insulation. A small amount of HCL is made and that goes back to the ethanol plant to help process the biomass material. Sulfur is a byproduct which is sold to the agricultural community to condition farm soil. Some distilled water is made and again used in the ethanol process. The main product we generate is our own electricity. We produce enough electricity above our needs that we have a lot (at least half of what we produce) left over to sell back to the local power company.

Why ASRF approach to the technology differs significantly from anyone else?


The Plasma Arc Gasification Plant has a limitless appetite and uses almost anything as fuel. We use all of the plant material (lignin) left over from the ethanol plant. We can even take in large quantities of animal waste which acceptable disposal of is a problem in all farming communities. A final benefit of the Plasma Arc Gasification Plant is that new just collected trash is normally delivered to our facility 5 days per week from morning to evening. The plant consumes all the waste that is delivered. The plant itself works 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. When we have used up all the newly delivered trash we go back to the landfill and remove a number of tons per week from the trash reservoir to keep the plant running. Over a number of years we even use up all the stored trash and thus restore the land to its original condition or turn it into a park or other useful facility.
WILTON, Conn., April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Startech
Environmental Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: STHK), a fully reporting,
Award-winning Environment and Energy Company, announced today that the
EnviroSafe Industrial Services Corporation of San Juan, Puerto Rico has
expanded its original plans for its new recycling-facility and its location
to now include its intention to install three Plasma Converters Systems,
purchased last year from the Company, in an existing, former
pharmaceutical-industry-facility also located in Puerto Rico.

Steve Landa, Startech VP, said, "The Converters being manufactured now
will be used by EnviroSafe to process various wastes including
pharmaceutical-industry waste with the resulting Plasma Converted Gas used
to make various Alternative Fuels. It is important to note here that in
this first-of-its-kind facility, the Alternative Fuels will be produced
from waste as the feedstock and not from food-crops."


Tuesday, August 2, 2011

CALL TO ACTION

American Standard Renewable Fuels Corp. (ASRF) is an innovative, problem solving Renewable Green Energy Company. We have the solutions to the huge growing municipal waste problems. Join us now to help solve this vast environmental problem.


Garbage Pits are huge contributors of green house gases, destroying our atmosphere more and more every day!


This environmental eye sore represents a typical landfill!


We all have a Problem: Municipal Waste!!


All over the world, countries, states, cities, counties and municipalities have the same problem; too much waste and sewage. There is no room in existing landfills to hold everything humans create each and every day of the year, let alone to bring in more. It should not be necessary to bury waste and hazardous materials in our precious earth. This will cause untold future pollution problems for our children and grandchildren to deal with. We need to fix these problems NOW!


We have the Solution: Clean Renewable Fuel from Green Energy Centers!!

Today’s technology can convert waste into valuable clean fuel and green renewable energy, with no harmful emissions and no left over waste products created. We literally consume everything you would find in a landfill. One of our processes turns it into clean usable renewable energy in the form of electricity. Another part of the energy center produces biomass ethanol from yard waste instead of corn, which is called Cellulosic Ethanol. This process does not consume our valuable food using corn, so all of the pitfalls connected with the OLD process do not apply here. The net carbon savings are three times greater than corn based ethanol! American Standard Renewable Fuels Corp has taken the best of existing technologies and coordinated them into one major problem solver. Putting it all together, we have created a complete and comprehensive renewable fuels energy center.



ASRF is an innovative renewable fuels energy company, founded by a small group of people with bio-fuel industry experience. We took a step back, looked at the big picture, saw the problem, and took action. We combined all of this technology and developed the turnkey Energy Center that can offer national and global solutions.  




This is what our landfills of the future should look like!!

How can you help? Contact us, TODAY!


 
You can make a difference and be a part of a brighter and cleaner future for our children and grandchildren. Invest in their future by investing in ASRF.



Please take the time to learn more about American Standard Renewable Fuels Corp. Not only is it an exciting business opportunity with undeniable potential, but it is smart for our environment, our economy, and for America. Once you get it...you'll truly be amazed!

Visit our web site at: www.asrfcorp.com.


Cell 1-858-336-2040

email: henryf@asrfcorp.com

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Thursday, July 7, 2011

One True Alternative to Landfills : American Standard Renewable Fuels

Landfills can be regarded as a viable and abundant source of materials and energy. In the developing world, this is widely understood and one may thus often find waste pickers scavenging for still usable materials. In a commercial context, landfills sites have also been discovered by companies and many have begun harvesting materials and energy


The alternatives to landfills are waste reduction and recycling strategies. Secondary to not creating waste, there are various alternatives to landfills. In the late 20th century, alternative methods of waste disposal to landfill and incineration have begun to gain acceptance. Anaerobic digestion, composting, mechanical biological treatment, pyrolysis and plasma arc gasification have all began to establish themselves in the market.


San Diego Union-Tribune
Letters: Waste to Energy

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 12:02 a.m.

In response to "Win-Win Waste System" (Letters, May 13):

The waste-to-energy concept is not new in San Diego. In the late 1980s, a 40-megawatt facility was within a gasp of beginning construction near San Marcos; that facility ultimately was doomed by cost issues. Another project recently disappeared due to management's financial naiveté. The projects did not fail because of technology. The concepts and working models were good science, using proven technology. The good news lies in the slow but sure approach being used by another San Diego startup: American Standard Renewable Fuels. As with the other projects, the technology works. The company is extraordinarily well managed and is actively looking to finance a number of projects. In addition, San Diego Gas & Electric has been a willing signatory in the past to power purchase agreements with companies proposing biomass projects. SDG&E meet ASRF; ASRF meet SDG&E.

PAUL O'NEAL
Temecula