Synagro Technologies, Inc. is a company founded in 1986 that works to turn waste into worth. The company partners with over 1,000 municipal, industrial, water and wastewater facilities, and agricultural partners in North America to help them move towards safer, cleaner, and more environmentally friendly practices. They offer tailored solutions that ensure no waste goes to waste, with a focus on processing waste for compost or energy pellets, creating healthy soil, and sequestering carbon in the process. As the largest recycler of organic by-products in North America, they are trusted for their experience and ability to remove risks while keeping logistics clean. The article also contains forward-looking statements, indicating potential risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that could impact the company’s future business and operations.
CharTech Solutions has partnered with Synagro Technologies to demonstrate the applicability of CharTech’s innovative High Temperature Pyrolysis (HTP) waste-to-energy solution to eliminate PFAS “forever chemicals” from biosolids generated by wastewater treatment facilities across North America. The partnership aims to eliminate PFAS, a class of toxic chemicals found in various consumer products and linked to health issues such as cancer and immune system dysfunction. The HTP technology can destroy PFAS contaminants by heating biosolids at high temperatures in the absence of oxygen, fix carbon in the form of biochar, and produce renewable energy in the form of a high-calorific value and hydrogen-rich syngas. This syngas can be used in a variety of ways, including offsetting natural gas consumption for industrial processes, generating heat, and generating renewable electricity. The demonstration project seeks to showcase CharTech’s triple bottom-line solution for biosolids and PFAS elimination, which transforms organic waste streams into valuable and renewable outputs. The partnership comes at a time when the Biden Administration and the Canadian government are taking steps to restrict PFAS further. The financial terms of the partnership are undisclosed at this time.
CharTech Solutions, a division of CHAR Technologies Ltd. (TSXV:YES), and Synagro Technologies have been collaborating for three years to develop and apply the High Temperature Pyrolysis (HTP) technology for biosolids to eliminate PFAS. According to Andrew Friedenthal, CHAR’s Director of Business Development, the partnership has evolved through each stage of the development process, and they are excited to deploy and demonstrate the innovative biosolids treatment technology at Synagro’s sites to validate HTP for commercial-scale applications.
Preliminary testing of HTP on biosolids has shown that the process can destroy PFAS contaminants, fix carbon in the form of biochar, and produce renewable energy in the form of syngas, according to Donald Song, senior project engineer at Synagro. The R&D unit will be self-contained with modules for feedstock handling, pyrolysis, biochar handling, gas clean-up and thermal oxidation and exhaust. The deployment of the R&D unit will establish pyrolysis’ operational requirements, fate of PFAS, emissions, and outputs at multiple locations. They believe this technology will be a powerful addition to their extensive experience in operating advanced thermal treatment processes for biosolids.
CharTech Solutions’ HTP technology presents an opportunity to transform biosolids into renewable and valuable outputs, such as renewable energy and biochar, with the ultimate goal of decarbonizing the industry and eliminating forever chemicals from the environment, added CHAR’s CEO Andrew White.
CHAR Technologies Ltd. has first-in-kind high-temperature pyrolysis (HTP) technology that processes unmerchantable wood and organic wastes to simultaneously generate two renewable energy revenue streams, renewable natural gas (RNG) or green hydrogen, and a solid biocoal that is a carbon-neutral drop-in replacement for metallurgical steel-making coal. CHAR’s HTP is an ideal waste-to-energy solution that aligns with the global green energy transition by diverting waste from landfills and generating sustainable clean energy to decarbonize heavy industry.
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Synagro Technologies, Inc., founded in 1986, provides waste-to-worth solutions to over 1,000 partners across North America. Its expertise spans municipal, industrial, water and wastewater facilities, and agriculture. Synagro’s waste-to-energy solutions ensure that waste is diverted from landfills, turning them into compost or energy pellets, creating healthy soil, and sequestering carbon in the process. Its largest expertise is recycling organic by-products in North America. Synagro’s technology is a trusted solution as it removes risks while keeping the logistics clean. It offers tailored solutions, ensuring no waste goes to waste. Synagro is committed to a greener world, emerging from a cleaner one, by turning waste into something beautiful.
This press release contains forward-looking statements about CHAR and its business operations, as defined under Canadian securities laws. The statements are intended to identify forward-looking information and reflect CHAR’s current views and intentions with respect to future events. The press release is subject to certain risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, including those discussed or referred to in CHAR’s disclosure documents filed with securities regulatory authorities. These include the Management Discussion & Analysis dated January 31, 2022, available on www.sedar.com. CHAR assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the forward-looking information and has expressly qualified it in its entirety through a cautionary statement. The forward-looking information in the press release is as of the date of the release, and CHAR has no obligation to update or revise it publicly except as required by applicable law. The TSX Venture Exchange and its Regulation Service Provider do not accept responsibility for the accuracy of the press release.
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