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Minas Gerais Received New Million-Dollar Investments for the Installation of Its New Thermochemical Plant in Uberlândia. In Addition to Generating Various Jobs, the Unit Promises to Transform Waste into Clean Energy.
Last week, the State Department of Science and Technology of Minas Gerais announced investments totaling R$ 27 million in Uberaba. The municipality was a pioneer in the development of the Technological Park and its innovation center, but is watching its neighbor Uberlândia advance even further in the technology sector with speed and success. To give you an idea, the Federal University of Uberlândia started activities to develop the Technological Park of the Glória Campus, where a Experimental Thermochemical Plant will also be built, on a semi-industrial scale, which promises to generate dozens of jobs.
Thermochemical Plant Will Receive Investments of R$ 10 Million
The two initiatives are the result of a partnership with the Government of Minas Gerais. The aim is to create a new technological and economic matrix for the development of new companies, generating jobs and income for the population of Uberlândia and the region.
Only in the Technological Park, R$ 12 million will be invested. The construction of the thermochemical plant will involve a partnership with the private sector and public agencies, which will invest R$ 10 million. The goal is to perform energy recovery of solid waste, generating gas for renewable and clean energy, free from polluting gases. The expectation of the Government of Minas Gerais is that this unit will serve as a pilot for a future installation in small and medium-sized municipalities in Minas Gerais, as an alternative to the urban waste problem.
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Learn How the Thermochemical Plant Will Work
The plant, which will create dozens of new jobs, will have a line for shredding waste, a thermochemical reactor for the production of synthesis gas, and a steam cycle for energy production, free from polluting and toxic gases.
According to the Undersecretary of Science, Technology, and Innovation of Minas Gerais, Felipe Attie, the research will serve as a basis for the energy situation of the state, to solve the problem of small towns, so that they can burn their waste without generating pollution, avoiding landfills, reducing waste costs and generating the gas that will produce electric and thermal energy. The production occurs through shredding the received waste, mainly cigarette loads seized by the Federal Revenue, which amount to nearly 60 tons annually.
The experimental thermochemical plant, which aims to generate several jobs, will have the capacity to process up to 300 kg/h of shredded cigarettes, generating enough electricity to supply up to 800 average households.
Plant Will Transform Seized Cigarettes into Clean Energy
According to the project coordinator, Solidônio Carvalho, the goal of the thermochemical plant is to transform the load of cigarettes seized by the Federal Revenue into electricity. The coordinator explains that the cigarette will be seized, shredded, and de-characterized. Afterwards, it will be placed in the equipment, a chemical reactor, capable of generating a fuel gas from the cigarette.
It is important to emphasize that the cigarette will not be burned at all. It will be transformed through thermochemical reactions, which is the reason for the name of the plant, and thus will convert into a gas, which can be applied in machines for electric and thermal generation.
Carvalho emphasizes that in partnership with UFU, the municipality will once again gain prominence as a pioneering city in waste treatment and that it will comply with the National Solid Waste Plan of the Ministry of the Environment, developing scientific responses to technical, tax, economic, legal, and regulatory issues related to the installation of gas plants in Brazil.
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