Having now been incorporated, the 50-50 JV plans to install and operate the waste treatment processing plant with capacity to treat more than 10,000 tonnes a year over a 20-year design life, with plans to commission in the second half of 2018.

 

The JV then wants to install and operate multiple large-scale commercial plants at targeted locations throughout Asia Pacific.

 

SDA has engaged WorleyParsons group Advisian to manage the design, specification, procurement, fabrication and construction of the plant at CSIRO's Queensland Centre for Advanced Technology (QCAT) facility in Pullenvale which specialises in gasification processing technologies.

 

The pilot plant will have a throughput capacity of 40kg of waste material an hour, providing a key step between its successful lab-scale batch processing and the first industrial scale commercial plant.

 

The move comes two days after Chapmans issued more than 407 million new shares at .5c to raise $2.03 million to fund the Syn Dynamics Australia pilot plant and associated operating costs and for new investments.

 

Investment firm Chapmans ramped up its interest in SDA from 19% to 80% stake last December in SDA, which recently completed a 12-month project with CSIRO conducting a first-phase scientific validation program at QCAT.

 

CSIRO installed and integrated SDA's plasma reactor into its own QCAT gasification facility; established SDA's reactor as a measurable and stable scientific instrument; and validated SDA's plasma reactor processing as a hazardous waste conversion technology.

 

CSIRO also boosted the plasma reactor's capabilities to underpin fundamental development research and established an advanced analytical capability to quantify reaction results and syngas properties.

 

The agency then continued with a second phase to expand knowledge around waste feeds, plasma control and energy and mass balances to give enough data to design engineer a commercial plant.

 

With all this success, CSIRO and SDA have agreed to extend the R&D and continuous improvement testing program at QCAT including design, construction and commissioning of a commercial scale pilot plant which can function as a test rig operatable across a broader range of temperatures and pressures.

 

Work is also being done to extend QCAT's analytic infrastructure to widen hazardous waste types tested; and testing advanced hazardous waste injection systems.