Research and Development for Robotic Transportable Waste to Energy System (TWES)

The TWES is designed to trigenerate electricity, chilled water and steam by burning waste. The system processes mixed refuse, burns it completely in a novel furnace, vents the flue gas through a steam generator from which steam will run an organic rankine cycle generator and an absorption chiller before being routed back to the steam generator. Emissions testing demonstrates the system is orders of magnitude below the Florida Environmental Protection Agency's emissions limits. The system of three trailers would be a deployable asset to alleviate some of the need for trash removal and diesel to run electric generators. TWES could have a profound effect on base security by potentially eliminating the need for third country national access to the base for waste pickup. TWES could also alleviate the strain placed on local landfills, both deployed and CONUS alike. Since humans will always produce waste, it is the epitome of renewable energy systems.