MEMBER PRESS RELEASE – CPL/Puragen Awarded Energy Innovation Award at the 2024 MRW National Recycling Awards
ADBA members CPL/Puragen Activated Carbons were recently awarded the prestigious Energy Innovation prize in the MRW National Recycling Awards 2024.
The company’s award was for a technology directly linked to the biogas sector, and hence to the ADBA membership. CPL/Puragen’s NRA entry described the company’s unique high-sulfur spent carbon reactivation capability, which can take heavily-loaded carbons from the biogas/biomethane sector and safely recycle them ready for re-use. Previously, these high-suflur spent carbons were considered untreatable by the activated carbon industry and had to be disposed of as waste by biogas operators. The issue of high-sulfur is specific to the biogas industry, since hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is often the main contaminant in biogas streams, depositing elemental sulfur on the carbon media within the filters.
Commenting on the award, CPL/Puragen’s Head of Strategic Operations, David Reay said, “This really was an unexpected honour, since we were amongst some stiff competition in our category and weren’t sure if our relatively niche technology would attract the attention of the judging panel. But in their comments they acknowledged that our innovation had identified and solved a very particular problem faced by biogas operators. Credit must go to our technical teams for making this a reality and ensuring that we were the first to market with a solution to this problem.”
The NRAs took place at the Hilton London Metropole and followed hot on the heels of another major award for CPL/Puragen, namely a Green Apple Gold Award for their PFAS abatement technology, which addresses a major concern in the water and chemicals industries regarding how to handle these so-called ‘forever’ chemicals.
For more information about CPL/Puragen’s high-sulfur reactivation technology, please visit the company’s website
MRW NRAs website: MRW National Recycling Awards 2024
For further info, contact : David Reay. David.reay@activated-carbon.com, 07989 342 682
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