Inside the Aries Linden Biosolids Gasification Facility gasifier:
In this photo, workers are welding refractory anchors inside the top half of the gasifier. These anchors hold the refractory material when it is later added at the site. The refractory material that has been chosen for the Linden gasifier is similar to a gunite material that is sprayed in, allowed to harden, then baked out at a controlled temperature to cure. The refractory lining allows for insulating the shell of the gasifier from the high temperatures inside and resists erosion from the sand bed and Class A fuel material in the fluidized bed gasifier. For more information about this project, click here.
Project Snapshot
- State of the art, patented fluidized bed facility located in a re-purposed building within the Linden Roselle Sewerage Authority complex
- Process 430 tons per day of biosolids
- Producing 22 tons of beneficial biochar daily
- Closed-loop system requires no fossil fuels during operations
- Construction underway
- Full operations in Q4 2020
Local Benefits
- Diverts 130,000 tons of biosolids from landfills annually
- Lowest cost option for biosolids disposal in NY/NJ Metropolitan area
- System is carbon negative and captures methane (with a global warming impact 23 times greater than CO2) that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere
- Reduce Greenhouse Gases due to reduction in trucking miles of conventional disposal methods
- Aries Clean Energy Build-Own-Operate model provides no financial risk to Linden Roselle Sewerage Authority
- Host Community Benefits to City of Linden
- Serving the largest metropolitan area in the US – The New York metropolitan area includes New York City, Long Island, and the Mid and Lower Hudson Valley in the state of New York; the five largest cities in New Jersey: Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Elizabeth, and Edison, and their vicinities; six of the seven largest cities in Connecticut: Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, Norwalk, and Danbury, and their vicinities.
- In a 25 mile radius, there are 13,517,045 people with 6,650,741 in the labor force.