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Article: United States: Latham views plastic-to-fuel converter at BECON facility.
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- August 19, 2009
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Byline: prashant03
A 1,000-pound bale of plastic grocery bags sat on the floor Monday at the Biomass Energy Conversion, or BECON, facility in Nevada.
It s there that Innovative Energy Solutions Inc. of Ames has set up a machine to convert the bags and other waste plastic into diesel fuel, natural gas and other usable byproducts.
The inventors hope to interest investors in using the technology to turn Iowa s estimated annual 600 million pounds of plastic waste back into burnable fuel.
Developed in part by Atul Kelkar, a founder of Innovative Energy Solutions who is also a professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University, the ...