LONDON (Alliance News) - PowerHouse Energy Group PLC Tuesday said the construction and commissioning of the newly developed PHE G3-UHt waste-to-energy system is nearing completion.
The company is currently completing commissioning and integration work on the system at its engineering facilities in Brisbane, Australia, and said it has sent invitations out to interested commercial parties and European government representatives to view a demonstration of the system in the first week of November.
All individual components of the system have passed their initial evaluations at nominal operating temperatures and are operating to specification. However, the company has identified a "minor" modification to the de-oxygenation system which will allow the company to tune the composition of the syngas which the system will produce.
The de-oxygenation system removes excess oxygen and ambient air during the feed-stock conveyor process and by making the modification, PowerHouse will be able to to determine the relative volumes of hydrogen and carbon monoxide produced in the syngas.
Syngas, or synthetic gas, is a fuel gas mixture consisting primarily of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and very often some carbon dioxide.
"The ability to increase or decrease the relative amount of Hydrogen can have a significant effect on the potential integration of a Hydrogen Fuel Cell into the G3 System," said the company. "The new de-oxygenation process has been designed, modelled, and the engineering has been completed. The newly machined parts are on order and are expected to arrive within the next few weeks."
"This marks the beginning of the actual commercial phase of the company," said Chairman Keith Alluan. "We finally have a technology in which we can be confident, which is proving to be commercially robust, and which delivers on the promise of PowerHouse."
"With this new demonstration unit, we are confident that we can begin making tremendous commercial strides in this next stage of the company," he added.
Trillaing of the new system continues in a variety of methods, including the conversion of toxic waste and shredded tyres into syngas.
PowerHouse shares were up 1.1% to 1.42 pence per share on Tuesday morning.
By Joshua Warner; joshuawarner@alliancenews.com; @JoshAlliance
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