Ze-gen, in conjunction with New Bedford Waste Services, LLC (NBWS), is conducting a demonstration of Ze-gen’s gasification technology at NBWS’s C&D and MSW transfer facility located at 1245 Shawmut Avenue in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Specifically, the demonstration project accepts up to ten tons per day of construction and demolition (C&D) residual material that is processed at the NBWS facility and to use it as the primary feed stock in a gasification process that utilizes molten bath technology. The products of the gasification process are a syngas, primarily carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which in a full-scale Ze-gen gasification plant will be used as fuel to generate electricity. Slag is produced as a by-product in the gasification process which will be used as construction aggregate; the furnace industry has shown that any impurities in the slag are bound into the material in a non-leachable state.

NBWS’s facility has been site assigned by the City of New Bedford and permitted by DEP to handle, process and transfer up to 1,500 tons per day of C&D material, municipal solid waste (MSW) and scrap tires.

The test facility began operating in October of 2007.

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