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Delta Thermo Energy is a leader in delivering the world’s first sustainable Green Waste to Fuel™ systems for industry and community. Uniquely, our internationally patented and U.S. patent pending Hydrothermal Decomposition technology enables our systems to convert municipal solid waste into a clean-burning fuel that produces Near Zero emissions. Our modern systems reduce costs and pollution within existing waste processing plants, protect the environment and help to return clean energy to the community. Our markets include industrial manufacturers and small to mid-sized communities across the world.

Delta Thermo Energy is a leader in delivering the world’s first sustainable Green Waste to Fuel™ systems for industry and community. Uniquely, our internationally patented and U.S. patent pending Hydrothermal Decomposition technology enables our systems to convert municipal solid waste into a clean-burning fuel that produces Near Zero emissions. Our modern systems reduce costs and pollution within existing waste processing plants, protect the environment and help to return clean energy to the community. Our markets include industrial manufacturers and small to mid-sized communities across the world.

Delta Thermo Energy was founded in 2011 with a vision to develop and deliver  a truly sustainable and green Zero Emissions waste processing plant. Landfills make less sense, legacy incinerators that burn municipal solid waste pollute our air, water and food, and the use of fossil fuels for power generation continues to destroy our environment.

Delta Thermo Energy’s team has developed a sustainable Green Waste to Fuel™ process that for once can address what has been an insurmountable challenge.  That challenge is the simple fact that almost every community on the planet produce more pollution and waste by-products than they can successfully recycle and process.  This cycle is not sustainable over the long term.

We all share this planet, we all breathe the same air, and we all drink the same water. We’re committed to sustainable Green Waste to Fuel™ process and we believe it is the best way to keep our environment clean and safe for generations to come.

Green Waste to Fuel™ is a process whereby municipal or industrial waste and sewage sludge is combined, processed into a clean burning fuel, and then processed with Near Zero Emissions such that the end product is clean green electricity.  Our process is environmentally clean and sustainable.

Green Waste to Fuel™ is not Waste-to-Energy.  Waste-to-Energy generally produces more pollution in the combustion of minimally processed municipal solid waste and requires more landfill space at the end of the process. The production of electricity by Waste-to-Energy plants is certainly far better than just incineration of the trash, but in the long run also represents an unsustainable strategy as it is based on burning municipal solid waste.

We don’t burn municipal solid waste or sewage sludge. Incinerators burn trash – we don’t.

We convert it to a clean burning fuel first.

Delta Thermo Energy uniquely has combined patented and patent pending technology from partners around the world to design and build our Green Waste to Fuel™ systems and Green Waste to Fuel™ to Energy plants.  No other company in the world has the technology to deliver this capability within the United States.  No other company can process municipal solid waste and sewage sludge with near Zero Emissions, deliver an end product which is classified as a fuel and burns cleaner than coal, requires almost no landfill capacity and then produces clean electricity.

Please see our definition on our near Zero Emissions page HERE.  You can also request our white paper.

Most small to mid-sized cities are excellent fits for our plants.  Contact us directly and we’ll do a quick analysis of the DTE system capacity required to process your municipal solid waste and your sewage sludge working with your existing waste processing partnerships. Alternately, we can design, build and manage a complete DTE Green Waste to Fuel™ to Energy plant for you.

Many manufacturers have applications which are excellent fits for our plants.  Contact us directly and we’ll do a quick analysis of the DTE plant capacity required to process your manufacturing operations solid waste (MOSW).

We estimate the time from a contract to a production Green Waste to Fuel™ to Energy facility to be approximately 18 months.  Permits and approvals by various government agencies  may lengthen this time window. A Green Waste to Fuel™ system can be manufactured and integrated with your existing processes in as little as 6 to 9 months.

We don’t burn municipal solid waste or sewage sludge. Incinerators burn trash – we don’t.

We convert it to a clean burning fuel first.

We process both municipal solid waste and sewage sludge, without harmful emissions and without producing harmful end-products that require landfill space.  We deliver engineered fuel and enable the production of electricity.  DTE Green Waste to Fuel™ systems and our core technology Hydrothermal Decomposition provide an entirely different process than most commercial waste-to-energy incineration, synfuels, plasma gasification, or anything else.

Delta Thermo Energy is the first company to prototype and build a commercial-scale DTE Green Waste to Fuel™ systems in the U.S. integrated together using a patented core technology process called Hydrothermal Decomposition. Delta Thermo Energy Green Waste to Fuel™ technology utilizes a number of previously proven technologies that have been used in Asia and Europe for MSW processing, but that have not yet been used in the  U.S. at a commercial scale. 

The thermal processing system, known as the Resource Recycling System (“RRS”), was originally developed by the Hokuto Kougyo  Co.(Hokuto) of Japan, one of our key partners,  for  the sterilization of  medical  wastes.   The Complete Combustion Chamber system (“CCC”) a technology developed by  Jasper  in Germany, another key partner, is used for the combustion of processed waste such as MSW,  biomass  and  industrial wastes.   The RRS system  generates wastewater  which  must  be treated before  discharge  to a municipalities wastewater treatment plant. The Waste Treatment System (“WTS”) is a technology developed by ETC of South Korea for the treatment  of  industrial  wastewater.   Delta Thermo also incorporates conventional equipment for receiving, sorting, shredding and storing MSW prior to treatment and combustion as well as conventional heat recovery and steam turbine equipment for recovering useful energy from  the  combustion  process. Advanced quality and air pollution control systems  are also incorporated to meet or exceed state and federal permitting requirements. 

The use of DTE’s systems will likely result in much shorter trucking distances within the community. Trucking your community waste long distances can now be reduced or eliminated. This results in less air pollution and less truck traffic. As landfills potentially disappear or are regulated out of existence, we find that most large regional landfills are often located far from the communities using them.

Tipping fees can substantially remain in your town where the waste was generated. Unpredictable and unbudgeted tipping fee increases are eliminated. Large regional landfills are most often privately owned. The revenue they produce does not remain in the community that generated the waste. Tipping fees at regional landfills are based on levels of competition from other regional landfills and may not be related to the cost of disposal. Because of long-term contracts and a fixed debt repayment structure, Green Waste to Fuel™ to Energy facilities offer stable and predictable tipping fees for municipal waste. Large regional landfills, usually privately owned, compete with other landfills for waste and the resulting tipping fees can at times be unpredictable.

Finally, the economy of the community is enhanced.