Word: cea
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...based Ashmont Systems to build a plant on the grounds of the former Brooklyn Navy Yard. The facility would take in 2,400 tons of garbage a day and supply heat and electricity for nearby industrial users. Earlier the city began talks with another firm, Combustion Equipment Associates, Inc. (CEA), to construct in a different part of Brooklyn a similar plant that would use 3,000 tons of city garbage...
...muck, a whole new industry has sprung up. Some firms, such as Wheelabrator-Frye. Grumman Corp. and UOP Inc., have been using technologies that basically consist of burning the trash in specially constructed heavy-duty incinerators to produce steam for electricity and heating. Other companies, including American Can, Raytheon, CEA and Occidental Petroleum, are experimenting with more complex systems that would produce synthetic fuels...
...more advanced systems is a CEA process for converting garbage into a fine brown powder called Eco-Fuel II. Metals and other heavy materials are mechanically culled from the garbage (just about anything that is thrown away) before the remaining material, mostly cellulose, is treated with chemicals, then pulverized. That technique permits the fuel to be stored without decomposing. The powder can be burned more efficiently than raw garbage and can be used with oil, coal or natural gas. For example, a CEA plant in East Bridgewater. Mass., converts 1,200 tons of garbage a day into Eco-Fuel...
...Fuel II will sell for about the same price as coal or natural gas, which is well below the going rate for imported oil. Says CEA President Robert Beningson: "The market for resource recovery is almost limitless." Beningson, a man who thinks big, estimates that if all the garbage in the country were converted to powdered fuel, it would add the equivalent of 2 million bbl. a day to the nation's oil supplies, or about the same amount as the oil that will flow through the Alaska pipeline at peak capacity...
Charles Schultze, chairman of the CEA. Although temporarily eclipsed last spring after his $50 rebate proposal was dumped, Schultze has regained his influence. Says one Administration aide: "Charlie's forecasts of economic progress land on the President's desk at the top of the pile." Currently, Schultze is urging a new stimulus program to keep the economy from lowing down late next year...