Shredder Residue To Energy

Shredder residue is an energy source in disguise. Its plastics and rubber carry a real calorific value, and gasification converts that stored energy into a combustible syngas that fires boilers and turbines to generate electricity.

Klean’s automotive-shredder-residue reference plant runs on residue with an average calorific value of 14.3 MJ/kg, across a 2 x 40 MW thermal platform that yields 17 MW of electrical output. The power runs the operator’s own plants, with the excess sold to the grid.

Energy From What Would Be Landfilled

The strategic value is that the energy is recovered from a stream that otherwise earned nothing. Every tonne of residue that would have gone to landfill instead displaces conventional power generation — turning a disposal cost into an energy asset.

Because the feed is continuous — a steady flow of retired vehicles and appliances — the power output is continuous too, providing the baseload character that intermittent renewables do not.

Baseload From the Circular Economy

That baseload quality is underappreciated. A gasification plant fed by the shredding industry produces power around the clock, independent of weather or daylight, from a feedstock that would otherwise occupy landfill. It is energy recovery and waste elimination in the same unit of work.

Learn More About Turning Residue Into Power

• Automotive Shredder Residue Gasification Plant
• Solid Waste Recycling
• What Is Gasification?
• Turn-Key EPC Delivery

Partner With The KleanTeam to Power From Residue

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Klean Industries has operated a shredder-residue-to-energy gasification plant producing 17 MW of electricity — the proof that the mixed fraction is a genuine power feedstock, not just waste.

Klean’s Key Advantages:

• ✅ An operating ASR gasification reference plant generating 17 MW of electricity.
• ✅ Thirty-plus years engineering commercial gasification and waste-to-energy plants.
• ✅ 3 recovered carbon black (rCB) plants built in India over the past 2 years.
• ✅ KleanLoop blockchain provides end-to-end feedstock traceability.

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