UK World First Leased Mobile Waste to Energy Units Sold to Brazil

British clean tech company Ultra Green has signed a contract to lease mobile waste to energy units for Brazil.

The deal is part of a long term programme that could be worth over £500 million and could make Brazil the most advanced waste conversion country in North or South America.

The first units to be supplied are self-contained "plug and play" systems in modified 40 foot containers and produce 0.5mw of electricity from 0.5 tonnes per hour of mixed solid waste.

The deal was signed with Brazil Energy giant A & G Energia and the tow companies have formed a joint venture company, Ultra Green Energia do Brasil, to initially import units but eventually to manufacture in Brazil.

The mobile plants will be lease hired to everyone from plantation owners to small villages and are particularly valuable in remote locations such as sugar plantations where waste can be used to generate power instead of diesel generators which Ultra Green claim are more costly to operate.

Ultra Green CEO David Weaver told us "These units are particularly valuable for use in areas where there is no power, but are equally effective in processing most kinds of organic waste from Municipal solid waste through bio mass to medical and toxic waste. I believe we are the first company in the World to offer mobile waste to energy plants commercially and the first to offer them on a flexible lease contract similar to that used in the hire of diesel generators and the lease of aircraft engines. In most cases our systems are much cheaper to operate than fossil fuel generator units and have the added advantage that they consume waste products instead of high value scarce resources such as hydro carbon fuels.

This also just the first phase in the programme with A and G, as we intend to build much larger plants in cities, and alongside power stations throughout Brazil. We can also convert sugar cane pulp waste to bio-diesel and add a further layer of efficiency".

Ultra Green engineers and researchers say they have designed these and other technology as part of an ambitious programme to turn waste from a problem to a resource.

Amongst other designs UG have a township model which creates no excess waste and needs no external electricity and a low cost sewage to energy system.

The Brazil units emit very low emissions unlike diesel generators as the base technology is a proprietary version of Pyrolysis where waste is converted to gas by the use of heat in the absence of oxygen, so no combustion takes place and therefore there are no harmful combustion emissions.

UG says it plans to roll out this business concept globally. However, Brazil is the first country in the World to understand and take this cutting edge process and business model.

located another unit which takes the residual pulp which is left over after producing the bio diesel and converting this to energy. Thus creating a remote self sustaining self value cycle.