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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTrashology Relevant Corporate and Technical Experience ______________________________________________________________________________ 277 Baker Ave., Concord, MA 01742 www.trashology.com | Ph: 978-264-0679 1. Company History Trashology has 15 years’ experience developing waste-to-energy conversion (WEC) systems for the Department of Defense (DOD) through the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center (NSSC, previously NSRDEC), the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP). Trashology’s primary mission as a company is to eliminate the need to dispose of waste in landfills, and to create technologies that repurpose waste into valuable products at the site of waste generation. Our flagship product, the Pur-Gen system, is a mobile, on-site waste-to-energy processing system that converts commingled waste components into clean electricity and heat. In 2019, Trashology executed a partnership with F9 Investments, led by Mr. Thomas Sullivan, to transition the technology from the DoD market to the commercial market. Trashology now has a comprehensive path to commercialization, and expects to launch its first commercial pilot unit in 2023 at a distribution center in Lawrenceburg, TN. As part of the partnership with F9 Investments, Trashology moved into a new 20,000 ft2 facility in Concord, MA. This new facility will dramatically improve Trashology’s manufacturing, testing, and analytical capabilities. Figure 1. History and future roadmap of Trashology’s commercial development. 2. Relevant Technical Experience Project Title: Demonstration and Validation of a Battalion-Scale Waste To Energy Conversion System Contract #: W912HQ18C0072 Period of Performance: 06/2018 – Present Organization for which work was performed: DoD / ESTCP (Environmental Security Technology Certification Program) Objective: The core objective of this program is to demonstrate and validate Pur-Gen system’s capability in converting highly variable contingent base solid waste into electricity and heat in an efficient, reliable, transportable, and rapidly deployed configuration. In order to meet the requirements of Force Provider’s Expeditionary Capability Production Document, Trashology is implementing solutions to the Pur-Gen system in order for it to be able to demonstrate that it can operate reliably with a diverse feedstock and minimal with manpower. In order to meet this main objective, Trashology is improving upon the following areas: Glenn Jordan Offer Letter Page 2 MSW Power Corporation 42 Nagog Park, Suite 100, Acton, MA 01720 • Minimize set up time and manpower. The target established by NSRDEC is two days with four soldiers (minimally trained) working 8 hours a day. Trashology set up the Pur-Gen system at Fort Benning, GA in 84 man-hours • Demonstrate the system’s ability to efficiently and reliably process any feedstock composition scenario on a forward operating base. • Reduce operational operator skill level and manpower requirements to 1 part time non-specialized soldier. • Demonstrate ability to efficiently provide power to simulated contingent base loads in a decentralized grid network. • Demonstrate the system’s ability to maintain operational efficiencies for extended durations. Project Relevance: This project is facilitating the continued research and development of Trashology’s Pur-Gen system and is supporting further engineering and development tasks to bring the system to complete functionality for demonstration on a simulated contingency base installation. The program has led to the development of the Pur-Gen’s current operation, including system upgrades to the Solid Waste Preprocessor (SWP) system, the Gasifier and Power Production systems, and to the rapid deployability of the Pur-Gen system to sites of waste generation. Project Title: Improving a Low Parasitic Solid Waste Preprocessor (SWP) for Consistent Pellet Production with Varying Heterogeneous Feedstocks Contract #: W911NF-06-C-0090 Period of Performance: 09/2017 – Present Organization for which work was performed: US Army CCDC-SC (formerly NSRDEC) Objective: The major objectives of the Sequential Phase II program were to: • Develop a new solution to homogenize a significant volume of waste within the pre-processing train. This would address the challenge that arises when a large concentration of a singular waste component (e.g., fiberboard, wet food, plastic bottles) is added to the system. • Develop new feedstock conveyance strategies (e.g., hoppers, material transport) that will not clog, jam, or otherwise require operator intervention. • Develop new automatic dryer control algorithms to provide reliable and consistent waste moisture content for downstream processing. • Design means to improve pellet quality. • Fabricate all improvements and perform iterative tuning, testing, and assessment with challenging heterogeneous feedstocks, including: o High food content testing o High cardboard/paper content testing o High plastic content testing o High free water content testing • Integrate all improvements into the BWEC solid waste preprocessing system. • Perform system robustness testing and evaluate system performance. Glenn Jordan Offer Letter Page 2 MSW Power Corporation 42 Nagog Park, Suite 100, Acton, MA 01720 • Demonstrate the improved SWP system for US Army NSRDEC and other WTE stakeholders within the DoD. Project Relevance: This program focused on the development and engineering of major processing improvements within the Solid Waste Preprocessor (SWP) system, which is currently in use as part of the BWEC system. The overall project goals were to define and develop operational upgrades to improve homogenization of size reduced waste materials, improve conveyance of waste materials, and to make improvements to the dryer and pellet mill systems. This development work has been instrumental in increasing the efficiency, reliability, and processing capabilities of the SWP system. As the first processing operation within the BWEC system and the one responsible for generating fuel pellets for gasification, the SWP operation is the most critical for ensuring consistent functionality of all downstream Pur-Gen operations, including gasification and power generation systems. As such, major process improvements in the SWP have led to increased waste throughput through the Pur-Gen system, improved fuel pellet quality and consistency, and improvements in overall process efficiency and effectiveness. Project Title: Battalion-Scale Waste to Energy Conversion Contract #: W911QY-12-C-0152 Period of Performance: 10/2012 – 02/2016 Organization for which work was performed: US Army CCDC-SC (formerly NSRDEC) Objective: The overall objective of this program was to provide the US Army NSRDEC with a battalion-scale waste-to-energy converter (WEC) suitable for use at contingency base camps. In support of Infoscitex’s (IST) contract with NSRDEC, Trashology agreed to participate in the program and offer their GEM technology for use as a system suitable for meeting the US Army’s Battalion-scale Waste-to-Energy Conversion requirements. This program’s objective was born from the need to address the myriad of health, security, and economic challenges associated with waste management in deployment scenarios, many of which are intensified for smaller base camps. Meeting a number of secondary objectives led to the attainment of the overall program goal, thereby paving the way for eventual fielding/transition/commercialization. The program had the following objectives: • Demonstrate selected gap solutions as full-scale laboratory prototypes • Secure all site, local, state, and federal licenses, permits, and other applicable permissions to operate a demonstrator prototype under conditions that will yield meaningful data upon which to assess its performance and future potential • Develop a full-scale demonstrator prototype • Demonstrate the viability of the prototype system with respect to economic, logistic, and performance criteria Project Relevance: This project involved the development of a containerized demonstrator prototype WTE system, and siting, planning, and execution of a demonstration test at Fort Benning (GA). Scale of 2-3 tons per day.