Rialto SlurryCarb Facility

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503 E Santa Ana Ave
Rialto, CA 92316
United States

Latitude: 34.05309

Longitude: -117.35926

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Year Opened: 2009

Pelletization Plant

Cost (in millions): 160

Notes

Produces a de-watered CO2 rich solid that they call "eFuel" and supply to cement plants as a coal replacement (has about half the BTU value of bituminous coal).
2013: sold to Anaergia out of bankruptcy

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Distance (miles)	0	2.5	5	10	25
American Indian	2.0%	2.7%	2.6%	2.3%	1.9%
Asian	3.3%	2.8%	3.5%	5.7%	8.9%
Black	3.6%	5.3%	6.9%	8.3%	8.1%
Hispanic	73.6%	80.5%	76.6%	68.9%	57.0%
White	16.8%	9.8%	11.1%	14.7%	22.8%

Population	2,845	24k	205k	798k	2,645k
Income	$75k

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CORPORATIONS

Name	Relation	Ownership
EnerTech Environmental Inc.	Former Owner
Anaergia Inc	Owner

LINKS

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Businesses struggle to profit from sewage sludge 5/6/2009 "Enertech pressurizes its sludge so that it never boils. Then it uses controlled heat to break down the sludge�s cell walls and force them to release their water."
EnerTech energy plant in Rialto closes 10/31/2012 "larger pollution-control devices needed to be added so that production could increase while keeping emissions negligible... engineering calculations that didn't work out in the plant's rea
One-of-a-kind waste-to-energy facility in Rialto, Calif. is sold to Canadian clean energy firm 12/19/2013 "The facility was launched in June 2009 by Atlanta-based EnerTech and was closed by the now-defunct company in October 2012."
San Jose Water Pollution Control Plant Master Plan p.87 Table B-1 Technology Screening - Slurry-Carb "Rialto facility product to be used in nearby cement kiln."

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Power	Type	Status	Fuel	Product
	Sewage Treatment Plant	Closed	Sewage Sludge	Other Biomass Solid 60000 Tons Per Year

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