September Energy: Waste Plastic to Electricity

We are committed to solving the problem of plastic waste, used tire dumpsites and inadequate waste management.

We propose that we convert this waste into electricity.  Our technology converts waste plastic, used tires, and organic waste into flammable gaseous components. These can then be converted into liquid fuel or electricity.

When scaled: This technology will increase the access to electricity  in developing countries through integrated waste management. It will power the dreams and lives of young Africans and so on. It will help augment the Paris Climate Agreement in Developed countries such as the Netherlands and Canada which are exporting their waste and also developing greener ways of generating energy. Even more exciting is how someday we will put all our household garbage into our electrical cars because Farai Pyro's miniaturized technology will convert it into electrical energy.

8Million tons of Waste plastic make their way into the oceans annually. And that amount increases with the increased projections of plastic manufacturing in future. In fact, only 10% of recyclable plastic is actually recycled every year. The other 90% makes its way into landfills, and other places. This problem of waste plastic has affected marine life, and has even made beaches uninhabitable affecting tourism in places like Bali. Some rivers in India have become plastic dumpsites and have polluted sources of drinkable water and water bodies of religious significance. In addition other petroleum derived products like waste tires have become fire hazards and millions are discarded all over the USA and other countries. When tires landfills burn the fires are hazardous to health and near impossible to extinguish.

For millions; the quality of air and water have been significantly reduced, sources of income have been affected increasing poverty, and without a solution for real use of waste plastics and used tires many will continue to suffer.

First
and foremost we would like to serve developing to countries which have a
significant portion of their population unable to access electricity. We will
deploy portable power plants at schools that need them in these countries and then move on to supplying community organizations and community businesses with electrical power. These countries already produce waste, manage it poorly, and suffer from that poor management as much as they suffer from the lack of access to electricity for all peoples.

Convert
waste plastic and used tires into electricity by using pyrolysis power plants as
big as a shipping container. We degrade these materials at high temperatures, in an anaerobic (inert) environment so they do not burn but cook without Oxygen. Once they heat up they then turn into a gas which can be sued as a gas or liquid fuel to generate the electricity. 

Electricity from plastic through pyrolysis, an existing technology that allows for the degradation of materials at high temperatures. This is beyond renewable energy and falls under what we would like to term, reversible energy. We are enabling the world to see plastic as having amazing benefits. Benefits which  are accessible to everyone in the world. The entire globe is dealing with the scourge of plastic waste and climate change.

Our business model will enable green schools and cities in developed to purchase a machine which converts plastic to electricity. And at the same time to choose a place in Africa where they would like a second one to be shipped. This way they will not only be going green but doing even more good in purchasing the machine.

We have innovative technology which is creating reversible energy - a truly new dimension of activity - and we have a model like no other in the energy industry. 1kwh for you and we match it with 1kwh for a school or city in a developing country.

September Energy Solution has at its core pyrolysis technology. This is the technology that involves the degradation of matter at high temperatures in an inert environment, specially in the absence of oxygen to avoid combustion. We have modified this technology and rigged it to produce electricity.

In order for the process to work the plastic needs to be cleaned and then shredded before being fed by a vacuum feeder into a pyrolysis reactor. The reactor is powered by a starter flame of gas, and then later some of the gas it produces will feed the burner flame. The rest of the gas produced goes on to feed the electric generator and the electricity generated can power as many houses as the size of the generator used for as long as the quantity of plastic collected.