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gas ( BioSNG ) on a continuous basis . The facility was built to process a range of waste feedstocks and their conversion into biomethane . A facility to produce transport quality biohydrogen in parallel with biomethane is currently under construction . Moreover , the plant will also produce 6000 tons per year of carbon dioxide to be liquified for use in industry and 400 tons per year of vitrified ash for use as an aggregate . “ Our Swindon plant serves as our critical commercial demonstration facility , but it was preceded by a pilot plant located in the adjacent building , which ran from 2010-to-2015 . This pilot plant played a crucial role in validating the scientific aspects of our operations . But pilot plants aren ’ t built to work continuously , and they have minimal automation . Consequently , we have made a significant investment in developing the control system software and operational procedures through the commissioning of our commercial demonstrator in Swindon . This facility is designed to demonstrate process stability over long periods of time , confidently managed and executed by our operations team working on shifts to keep the plant running 24 / 7 . The primary purpose of this plant is to establish efficient and cost-effective operations .
“ We took our time building and commissioning the Swindon plant , as this provides critical learnings to the organization that will stop us from making these mistakes at a much larger and costlier scale . Our Swindon plant precisely follows the process that will be implemented in our fullscale plants , but its compactness allows us to carefully debug and
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