Bedminster

Bedminster market a technology that has been used for prolonged periods at several reference plants around the world at both large and small scale.  This independent, up-to-date report can help you to assess whether this process is a contender for your application.

The technology has been used as a mixed waste composting system and is now also being marketed, in two variants, for MBT applications.  The report assesses its suitability for these different uses, reports on its performance track record and assesses risk factors.

Published in October 2006, this report expands on an earlier review of this process which was published by Juniper in March 2005.  It contains additional analysis and data based on discussions with operators and others during 2005 and 2006.  Juniper has also appraised key reference plants since the publication of the earlier report.

This is the most comprehensive review available of this process in the public domain.  It analyses the current status of the process, and examines the issues which would be of most interest to potential customers. 
It includes the following:

• Current commercial status
• Key reference plants
• Details of the two applications which the company is now promoting
• Advantages and disadvantages of the process

Examples of specific potential issues identified and discussed within the report include:

• How certain are the markets for the outputs, and what does this do to a project’s viability?
• Should potential customers be concerned that the biofuel variant is not proven in operation as yet?
• Can the process operate without a sludge co-feed?
• Should potential customers be concerned that the new owners of the technology have not yet delivered a project themselves?

Table of Contents

• Overview
  
• Historical Development
  
• The Process Concept
  
• Current Commercial Status
  
• Business Focus and Future Projects
  
• Process Performance
  Configuration to produce 'compost'
  Configuration to produce a solid fuel
  Is a sludge co-feed necessary?
  How certain are markets for the outputs?
  Environmental Impact
  
• Economics
  
• Juniper's Opinion
  Unresolved issues and gaps in information
  Key advantages and disadvantages
  

Date published: 27th October, 2006
Price: 220 UK pounds
Number of pages: 39
Format: Downloadable pdf.