Citizens for a Better Flathead Public Comment, 12-9-24Citizens for a Better Flathead. PO box 2198, Kalispell, MT 59903
Mayre Flowers, Mayre@Flatheadcitizens.or406-253-0872
12-9-2024—Kalispell City Council Work session
PXVNEO is the revolutionary wastewater treatment plant in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.
Phoenixville is the first municipality in all of North America to use the hydrothermal
carbonization process to treat the community's wastewater. More than a wastewater
treatment plant, PXVNEO is a resource recovery system.
PXVNEO's first phase will see the Borough's wastewater treatment transformed from anaerobic
digestion to hydrothermal carbonization or HTC. HTC is superior to anaerobic digestion in
several keys ways and the move to improve the Borough's largest energy user into an eventual
energy producer is revolutionary.
What is HTC?
PXVNEO uses heat and pressure to mimic the way that nature produces coal and other fossil
fuels, but we are using chemistry to speed up the process from 250 million years to a couple of
hours.
Waste enters the system and goes through a reactor that pressurizes and heats it until it can be
separated into process water and one of several very useful bioproducts. The solid bioproduct
that is created, known as BioCoal, can be used as carbon neutral, clean biofuel. Other uses of
BioCoal include industrial uses as an advanced carbon replacement and a medium for carbon
sequestration. PXVNEO transform organic wastes to clean and valuable bioproducts.
https://pxvneo.com/what-is-htc/
Updates
https://Pxvneo.com/project-updates/
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