Open Source Material Recovery Facility
dickie <dickiehaskell@gmail.com> Attachments 12:18 PM (29 minutes ago) to info
Hello OSE, I was wondering if you guys offer 3d cad design services for people that are prototyping a manufacturing system? I want to open source this system which will enable communities of any size to divert their waste streams from the landfill to a material recovery facility which produces building materials. Thank you for considering my project. Here is a description of what this material recovery facility aims to do. Thank you getting intouch.
Concept
Captured Waste To Energy Micro Material Recovery Facility Concept Seeking Development Assistance
Introduction to the Concept and Core Business Model Points:
Hello, my name is Richard Haskell and I’m prototyping a machine that has a system involved with some complexity. It is called the Micro Material Recovery Facility (MMRF) My goal is to provide communities an affordable waste recovery solution which doesn’t currently exist. To do this, I’m seeking machine and system design developers that can help me prototype the MMRF. This concept is aimed at competing with large scale material recovery facilities with its scalable design. At the heart of the MMRF is a machine that I call a Material Recovery Gasifier (MRG). I’m in need of a design engineering team to help me build a very crude concept into professional blue prints and system diagrams. Once I’ve achieved this, it will be possible to get cost quotes from fabrication companies from which it will be possible to build a business plan around producing the first MMRF prototype. I aim to provide this facility at commercial scale for sale or for lease to any sized community in the USA and beyond. By designing the system modularly, we can double up components to handle larger or smaller waste material process requirements. This is a crude drawing of what the basic MMRF looks like:
MMRF Component Identification Reference Key: 1. Glass Export 2. Alloy Export 3. Plastics Export 4. Carbon Material supplied to in vessel composter 5. Compost Export 6. Aggregate Export 7. Plastic Pellet Production 8. Decanter Centrifuge 9. Biomass solids 10. In-Vessel Composter 11. Tesla Turbine 12. Generator 13. Boiler 14. Water Pump 15. Methanol Storage 16. Synthetic Diesel Storage 17. Fuel Distillation 18. Glass Extraction 19. Aggregate Out 20. Alloy Extraction 21. Plastic Extraction 22. Biomass Liquid Extraction 23. Hammer Mill 24. MSW Hauler Tipping 25. Construction and Demolition Hauler Tipping 26. Screw Conveyor 27. Methanol Dispensing 28. Diesel Dispensing
Concept: The Affordable MMRF; Fulfilling an unserved niche, small to mid-sized cities waste recovery and logistics.
Relative to the average modern MRF, The Captured MMRF footprint, machine portfolio, and capital investment cost for installation and operation should theoretically be 1/10 of the cost. If the average full scale MRF costs around $50 million to install (such as the MRF installed for NYC), we aim to provide our turn key plant for the installed price of approx. $5 million.
Under this premise, we believe that small to mid-sized towns and cities will be able to afford a MRF, which at this point, most can not. This is the reason that only ¼ of the 250 million tons of municipal solid waste that is landfilled or incinerated in the USA each year is recycled.
By diverting this massive amount of wasted materials into waste recovery for renewable products, communities stand to benefit in many ways. These include:
The creation of local green jobs.
A boost to the local economy from revenue earned from managing the regions waste and through the sale of renewable products.
The preservation of land resources. This model circumvents the need for a landfill. The MMRF enables communities to mine their landfills so that they can repurpose their land for more valuable use such as a park or a eco village.
The reduction of pollution. Replacing the landfill with a MMRF means that methane gas doesn’t pollutes our air. Animals such as birds feeding on trash and hazardous liquids, called leachate that eventually leak though landfill liners, are common and severe issues that no longer threaten our community’s precious natural resources when choosing the MMRF over the landfill.
Offsetting the consumption of fossil fuels by choosing renewable resources. Our MMRF produces low to no carbon footprint synthetic diesel and methanol that the community can purchase to power their gasoline and diesel vehicles. These fuels burn clearer and do not involve environmentally disruptive extraction processes like their petroleum counterparts.
Features of the MMRF:
100 x 100 footprint. Excepts municipal solid waste from refuse trucks and public refuse drop-off. Excepts construction and demolition materials. Excepts single stream recyclables. Recovers biomass and produces finished compost. Recovers plastic and exports plastic pellets. Recovers alloys and exports ingots. Recovers glass and exports beads. Recovers aggregates and exports gravel. Produces electricity and is self-powered. Produces methanol and synthetic diesel and provides fuel dispensing for public and waste hauler mobility applications.
Locations and Operations that Benefit from a MMRF:
Material transfer stations. Landfills. Large waste generation sites such as factories, universities, and hotels. Dedicated MRF locations. The dedicated MRF’s “All Materials Recycling Center” would be conveniently located near a city or town center where waste haulers and the public can easily drop off materials.
Strategy to and Path to Marketability:
My goal is to partner with manufacturing companies who can build these plants for my organization, CWTE, and share in the profits generated from the sale of the plant installations and from the output of products sold to markets. The other route is to raise funds from venture capital and or angel investors/partners that will enable us to afford the purchase of MMRF plants as we secure contracts with potential MRF operators.
Potential Customers Include:
Municipalities. Waste generator operators such as universities, hotels, amusement parks, large housing developments, and military installations. Landfill operators. Transfer stations. Cruise ships. Off-grid communities.
This is a more elaborate rendering of the system scaled up to a travel center concept we call the CWTE Recycling Center. Here trains and trucks deliver municipal solid waste, construction and demolition debris, and single stream recycling to the CWTE Recycling Facility from points throughout the country. These modes of transport receive the waste streams from an established network of material transfer stations who take in waste from community haulers. These transfer stations are located along interstate and main line railroad corridors running parallel to Interstate 95 on the east coast and I 5 on the west coast as well as I 40 and I 10 east-west corridors crossing the country. The public can utilize this facility in several ways. It features a drop-off for recyclables and landfill waste and provides an educational component where visitors can tour of the facilities and learn about the inner workings of waste to energy and resource production. The shipping container modules that house the components of our system will feature glass sides so that people can see the waste materials enter and move through the system from start to finish. Visitors will also learn about how the various types of materials entering and exiting the extraction process and see them move to the manufacturing systems resulting in finished products.
In Conclusion:
Please visit and discover our website Capturedwastetoenergy.com. Check out the landfill system concept where I began this journey of waste to energy conceptualization. This concept involves the excavation of buried landfill materials in order to install a large scale MRF encompassing 11 floors of production bays. This scale of facility is designed to handle an entire regions waste stream for renewable resource products and utility production.
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Thank you for considering working with us. We are very excited to build our concept of a Material Recovery Gasifier and Micro Material Recovery Facility into a reality to begin providing zero waste solutions for communities small and large.
