Technology
Garbage produced
inside an office building is mostly treated by an outside waste disposal
contractor for about 20,000 yen per ton. Shimizu, one of Japan’s leading
general contractors, developed equipment for in-house power generation for
office buildings that uses garbage for generation. The newly developed
equipment disposes of nearly all garbage including waste paper produced
internally in an office building and makes it possible to reuse them as a
source of energy. It has been hard to use garbage for in-house generation
because it contains water, but the company successfully solved this problem.
Garbage is first
dried and mixed with dry trash like paper waste, and subsequently is smothered
in an oxygen-free condition to produce biogas. The biogas is ignited and burnt
to generate by the gas engine for air-conditioning and lighting inside the
building. The company will evaluate and test the generation performance of the
equipment and wishes to put it into practical use after the spring of 2013. The
price is not yet decided. This is reportedly the first in-house power
generation equipment that uses garbage.
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