School Mhuire receives 10 free computers from Computers for Irish Schools

Scoil Mhuire in Marino Dublin is the first Irish School to benefit from the recently launched Computers for Irish Schools programme,
Mr Martin Rabitte, who nominated his school as a participant in the programme, is delighted with their involvement, "In Scoil Mhuire Marino we are currently using 10 machines which have been kindly donated by Computers for Irish Schools. These machines have been a great addition to the school and they are currently on the network in the computer room, increasing the number of machines available to the children. We here in Scoil Mhuire Marino are very grateful to Computers for Irish Schools for these excellent machines which were ready to place on the network."
The machines provided free of charge to Scoile Mhuire Marino were from a batch of Computers which were recycled on behalf of Whitehall College of Further Education. The donated computers were refurbished by CFIS at no extra cost to Whitehall College of Education

For more information and to find out how some of your obsolete IT equipment can benefit Schools in Ireland, log on to www.cfis.ie

Converting waste plastics to energy

Agency for Green Technology

AGT Technology Ireland Ltd
Brendan Palmer, Managing Director of AGT Technology Ireland Ltd, has worked in the WEEE recycling industry since the setup of Electronic Recycling in 1996. In 2005, with an investment from One51 Ltd., he set up TechRec Ireland Ltd, the only fully automated WEEE recycling plant on the island of Ireland. Selling out the shareholding in March 2008, Brendan decided to focus on the problem of non-recyclable plastics from WEEE. This was one of the major problems encountered in operating the WEEE recycling plant.

Over the last fifteen years, AGT Management & Engineering, based in Austria, have developed Low Temperature Conversion (LTC) technology, which can convert plastics into energy in the form of either gas, electricity or liquid fuels. Matching the solution to the problem, AGT Technology Ireland Ltd was set up in November 2008.

What is Low Temperature Conversion (LTC)?

Historical Development
The basis of LTC, anaerobic carbon enrichment, goes back to the time of charcoal making. Now, with the use of a State of the art technology, optimum process flows and significantly improved environmental controls, LTC has become a unique, extremely efficient and economical way to generate energy from organic waste streams.

The process
Low Temperature Conversion is multi-stage thermo-catalytic decomposition operating at temperatures well below 700°C.The LTC process is not incineration and converts organic waste to very high grade combustion gas similar to natural gas. This progressive thermal-catalytic material gasification with integrated gas purification and residue cleaning is carried out in an entirely closed system minimizing emissions.

Conventional incineration systems convert only a small part of their waste input into energy and release the majority as heat, which cannot be easily transported or stored. The LTC is a continuous process in which all heat is consumed in the conversion process. No external heat is produced.

The closed system and the low conversion temperature of an LTC plant produce very low emissions. Unlike incineration plants, LTC plants do not overheat inorganic material present in the feedstock. These materials pass through the system without creating contaminants and can be easily recovered and recycled.

This solution to WEEE plastics will predominantly be provided in Europe but the process can also be used for any non-recyclable plastics and AGT plan to develop a number of plants in Ireland to address the growing problem of what to do with co-mingled waste plastics, 210,000 tonnes of which were landfilled in the Republic of Ireland in 2007.
For more information http://www.agt-technology.ie/