Resource Management Strategies & Technologies
Today, virtually all governmental and commercial activity within the energy and environmental marketplaces takes place at the intersection of technology, economics and public policy. Within that specialized and demanding business environment, CommonWealth’s ability to add or create value for its clients and partners rests in large measure on its knowledge of the technical and economic performance characteristics — and the regulatory requirements and constraints — of a wide range of resource management and utilization strategies and related technologies. As consultants and developers, CommonWealth’s expertise covers a broad range of technologies associated with the following strategies for materials and waste management, resource recovery, renewable energy/distributed generation and environmental impact mitigation:
Materials and Waste Management
- • Municipal solid waste (MSW) collection strategies:
- — Manual and automated collection
- — Co-collection of MSW and recyclables
- — Source separation and collection strategies
- • Waste transfer systems and strategies:
- — Inter-modal transfer
- — Transfer w/ and w/o intermediate handling
- — Short haul/long-haul/rail-haul transfer strategies
- • Landfill disposal strategies:
- — MSW landfill disposal
- — Ash monofill disposal
- — Co-disposal of MSW and sludge
- — C&D landfill disposal
Examples of relevant client engagements:
National Waste Services Company
Private Investment Banking Firm
City of Concord, New Hampshire
Resource Recovery
- • Recyclable materials recovery:
- — From source-separated materials
- — From mixed MSW
- — From source-separated materials
- • Refuse-derived fuel (RDF) preparation
- • Organic materials recovery:
- — Composting of source-separated leaf and yard wastes
- — Composting of other source-separated organics
- — Processing and composting of mixed MSWLandfill Leachate Treatment Facility
- — Co-composting of mixed MSW and wastewater treatment plant sludge
- • Landfill gas management and methane recovery:
- — Landfill leachate treatment NEW! (Click photo at right to read a detailed project description.)
- — Production of medium-Btu boiler fuel
- — Production of pipeline-quality natural gas
- — Thermal destructionLandfill Gas to Energy Facility
- — Electricity generation (Click photo at right to enlarge.)
- • Construction and demolition (C&D) debris processing:
- — Asphalt, brick and concrete (ABC) waste
- — Mixed C&D waste
- — Soils processing
- • Waste pallets and other source-separated wood waste processing
- • Tire processing to prepare tire-derived fuel (TDF) or crumb rubber
- • Biomass processing for direct combustion or gasification
- • Food and animal waste processing to produce Yellow Grease and other products
Examples of relevant client engagements:
Investment Banking Firm
Orange County, Florida
Town of Bourne, Massachusetts
Renewable Energy/Distributed Power Generation Systems
- • Wave energy recovery systems
- • Low-head hydro-electric systems
- • Reciprocating internal combustion engine systems:
- — Landfill gas
- — Diesel and biodiesel
- — Multi-fuel engines
- — Natural gas engines with catalysts
- • Gas-fired micro-turbines
- • Municipal waste combustion:
- — RDF traveling grate boilers
- — Mass burn systems
- — Fluidized bed combustion
- • Wood waste combustion
- • Co-combustion of MSW and sludge
Examples of relevant client engagements:
Independent Power Producer
Leading Institutional Investor
Town of Marblehead, Massachusetts
Environmental Impact Mitigation
- • Air pollution control:
- — Industrial process modification
- — Combustion controls
- — Catalytic reduction and oxidation: SCR, SNCR, NSCR
- — Thermal reduction and oxidation
- — Chemical adsorption and absorption
- — Electrostatic precipitation
- — Filtration by fabric and membrane
- • Regulated medical waste (RMW) treatment and processing:
- — RMW disinfection and materials recovery
- — RMW incineration
- — Sharps management
- • Pathological waste incineration
- • Hazardous waste management:
- — Reverse osmosis treatment of aqueous wastes
- — Molten metal treatment of solid wastes
Examples of relevant client engagements:
Medical Waste Processing Company
French Waste Services Company