AFC Energy has struck a deal to supply its alkaline fuel cells to energy-from-waste firm Waste2Tricity, which wants to use the technology to develop highly efficient gasification plants.
Waste2Tricity is expecting to develop a series of plasma gasification plants that would use fuel cells to convert waste to energy at efficiency rates as high as 60%. Conventional energy-from-waste plants are often only half as efficient as this.
The pilot plant will be built in two phases. The first phase will see the main gasification unit developed, to turn around 50,000 tonnes of municipal waste a year into hydrogen, which would then generate electricity through a standard internal combustion engine.
The second phase will see up to 12MW of fuel cells established to replace the combustion engine with a more efficient system offering more electricity per tonne of waste.
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