VOL. 68 NO. 40
65 YEARS OF SERVING THE COMMUNITY
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2015
Green-tech biz setting up in Vegreville Michael Simpson reality that we cannot continue to treat waste as Editor we have; burying it, pushing it into huge piles, or Vegreville will soon be home to a showcase plant incinerating it. With the calls for an alternative using a technology that Vegreville is intimately growing ever more strident government and familiar with – pyrolysis, a technology that oper- industry are being forced to consider new soluates at a lower temperature than combustion and tions. It is into this perfect storm that Emergent ,in the absence of oxyWaste Solutions brings gen (air), transforms its Advanced Pyrolysis waste materials to System (APS) technolproducts in the forms ogy.” of a solid, liquid and The plant will operate gas. 24 hours a day for 330 Emergent Waste days out of the year. It Solutions, based out of will process 12 tonnes Vancouver, has taken a of crumb rubber each lease in Vegreville’s day from a tire shredParks building and will ding operation in be assembling a plant Ponoka that ships in which will use the three times per week. pyrolysis process to EWS has indicated it convert recycled rubwill be using approxiber tires into synthetic A photo of a similar plant operating in Taiwan.The pyrolysis process mately 3 cubic meters gas, heating fuel and a will use recovered water and synthetic gas from its own feed stock, of water per day, carbon sequestration in Vegreville’s case recycled tires, to heat the rubber crumb as well roughly the same product known com- as provide cooling. More details can be accessed by the public at amount used by 10 an open house on October 17 at the Vegreville Centennial Library. monly as “carbon (Photo Supplied) households, and will black” used in various keep that low conapplications where reducing carbon is critical. sumption by recycling 90 per cent of its fresh EWS Chief Executive Officer Kevin Hull is water to be used in its pyrolysis process. One of optimistic that the use of pyrolysis to reclaim the byproducts, namely the synthetic gas released materials, which goes beyond the initial feedstock from the pyrolysis, will be captured and re-used of rubber crumb, is going to be a key industry as a heat source for the building and their reactor used in environmental stewardship programs process, Hull said. everywhere. “EWS is making responsible waste management so profitable a capitalist becomes Local support and oversight an environmentalist,” Hull said. As part of their application to Alberta CONTINUED TO PAGE 10 “Increasingly as a society we are waking to the
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