Economic Benefits
- The GCL process turns inexpensive feedstocks, biomass, and waste into valuable commodities such as electricity, substitute syngas, fuels, chemicals, and fertilisers. Waste management plants can reduce operating costs by gasifying MSW instead of using costly natural gas.
- Gasification plants have much lower operating costs than conventional processes as they are more efficient, require less back-end pollution control equipment, are fully automated and need fewer on-site staff.
- The GCL process offers wide fuel flexibility between solid, gas and liquid feedstocks. This provides greater freedom to adjust to feedstock price and availability.
- Biochar, the principal by-product of gasification, is a rich source of carbon. It is readily marketable as a fertiliser or for water purification.
- Using commercially available technology, GCL power plants can achieve engine efficiency of 35-40 percent. Technology improvements will boost this efficiency to significantly higher levels.
