We know Energy from Waste
Alongside strategies to reuse, recycle, repurpose and reduce, deriving power and heat from waste can play a valuable role in a nation's holistic and sustainable waste management policy.
Developers delivering these energy solutions, however, must overcome stringent environmental regulations as well as considerable technical challenges, as well as manage complex interfaces between multiple parties including the surrounding communities, investors, regulators and authorities providing the municipal waste feedstock (sometimes multiple streams) and other critical utility supplies.
With energy-from-waste (or waste-to-energy) projects often demanding bespoke design considerations, these projects require experience and knowledge that covers all technology areas available, expertise that is seldom maintained within utilities or independent power producers.
As your technology agnostic partner, Black & Veatch focuses on adding value at every point in the asset lifecycle, ensure execution certainty and the delivery of an efficient, reliable and stable source of power.
Waste-to Energy Capabilities that Drive Execution Certainty
Abundant experience across every aspect of waste-to-energy project execution:
Resource assessments and characterizations
Feasibility studies and technology selection, technical due diligence
Conceptual and preliminary engineering
Detailed design
Owner’s engineer services
Engineer, procure, construction management (EpCM) and engineer, procure, construct (EPC) delivery
Comprehensive combustion technology expertise:
Combined heat and power
Fluidised bed staged-gasification
Moving grate
Pyrolysis
Plasma arc gasification
Experience with all common waste to energy feedstocks:
Biomass
Biogas
Refuse-derived fuel
Municipal solid waste
Black & Veatch has significant experience with many types of carbon capture and sequestration facilities, including direct air capture and facilities that utilize carbon dioxide to produce commercial products. Learn more about our extensive capabilities in supporting our clients' decarbonization journeys.
We have supported multiple waste-to-energy projects that encompass processing of syngas and production of synfuels including:
Ammonia
Biomethane
Gasoline
Hydrogen
Methanol
Urea
Urea Ammonium Nitrate