New Haven manufacturer Precision Combustion Inc. received a $79,895 grant to develop a burner for waste-to-energy plants.
The grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Small Business Innovation Research program seeks to demonstrate a fuel-flexible, low-emission burner for biomass.
Such a system would make waste-to-energy plants more economical as they wouldn’t have to worry about the variable heating values resulting from burning different kinds of biomass.
Waste-to-energy plants, especially those in Connecticut, have struggled to remain open as the price of electricity has dropped because of the proliferation of natural gas.
