Fort Bragg Chosen For Waste-To-Fuel Project
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Fort Bragg has been chosen as one of six installations to participate in a Defense Energy Security Command (DESC) sponsored Biomass Waste-to-Fuel demonstration project, the Installation Management Command said Tuesday.
The two-year demonstration project will take biomass waste such as wood chips or cardboard and process it into diesel fuel and soil/compost. The purpose is to ascertain the technical feasibility of a mobile unit capable of being used in a field environment to support a unit’s fuel requirements.
”Fort Bragg is continuously looking for opportunities to reduce our waste streams,” said Dave Heins, chief, Environmental Division, Directorate of Public Works. “Through a demonstration project we will evaluate the ability to turn wood waste and cardboard into fuel for tactical vehicles. The goal of the demonstration project is to develop a portable unit that could be used by deployed units to minimize their waste while producing vehicular fuel.”
Fort Bragg is scheduled to begin the project demonstration first quarter of fiscal year 2009. Other installations participating in this project include: Fort Drum, N.Y.; Fort AP Hill, Va.; Fort Stewart, Ga.; Fort Lewis, Wash.; and Fort Benning, Ga.
