Kore demonstrates WTE technology at Los Angeles facility

Kore Infrastructure, El Segundo, California, has announced the successful one-year demonstration of its waste-to-energy modular system at its Los Angeles facility. According to Kore, this demonstration proves that the company’s technology can produce 100 percent renewable energy from organic waste using a closed-loop, carbon-negative process.

Kore also demonstrated its ability to produce UltraGreen hydrogen that can be used to decarbonize a variety of industrial applications, including steel manufacturing and ammonia production. The UltraGreen hydrogen can also be upgraded for fuel cell electric cars, trucks, buses and trains.

As explained by the company, the process produces biocarbon—a solid elemental carbon that can be blended into soil to reduce irrigation and fertilizer costs, improve drought resilience and increase plant yields. The biocarbon is a “stable form of carbon that will not revert to CO2 or CH4: its use sequesters carbon for centuries,” the company says. Companies seeking to reduce their carbon footprint can purchase Kore’s carbon credits through voluntary exchange markets.

“This demonstrates that Kore’s technology is commercially-ready and able to scale up to solve the twin problems of reducing waste and increasing access to clean, carbon-negative fuels,” says Cornelius Shields, CEO and founder of Kore Infrastructure. “Our technology is now available to waste, energy and transportation sector leaders to provide a made-in-America, carbon-negative energy solution, creating a supply chain that is emissions-free, sustainable and affordable.”

Kore's modular system uses a proprietary pyrolysis process, which heats organic waste under high temperatures in a zero-oxygen environment. The process is designed to meet South Coast Air Quality Management District’s ultra-low nitrogen oxides and particulate emissions standards. The facility has been running for one year in Los Angeles, one of the most tightly regulated airsheds in the country.

“This innovative technology is designed to divert organic waste from landfills, reducing short-lived climate pollutant production and instead, producing carbon-negative hydrogen and renewable natural gas,” Kore says.