Hisham Hafez's technology is being developed to industrial scale through a partnership involving Western Engineering, WORLDiscoveries and Greenfield Global. (submitted photo)
Hisham Hafez's technology is being developed to industrial scale through a partnership involving Western Engineering, WORLDiscoveries and Greenfield Global. (submitted photo) - Western alum Hisham Hafez, PhD'10, MBA'19, is taking his innovative 'waste-to-energy' process from the lab to market as the senior director in charge of renewable natural gas projects at Greenfield Global, a producer of high purity alcohols, solvents, biofuels and bio-processing materials. Hafez is leading the development and construction of the largest anaerobic digestion facility in Ontario - and the only one using his patented technology to produce renewable natural gas from organic waste. The facility will be developed in Chatham-Kent, adjacent to Greenfield's existing ethanol facility, and will be designed to process more than 150,000 tonnes of organic waste each year. The renewable natural gas produced from the organic waste streams will be sold to industrial customers who are driven to reduce the carbon intensity of their manufacturing processes. Unlike fossil natural gas, which is carbon-intensive, renewable natural gas has a low - and sometimes negative - carbon footprint. Governments at all levels are seeking to divert organic waste from landfills to reduce methane emissions to combat climate change.
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