Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM

Monday, March 7, 2005 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 Auditorium

Brian Appel

"Changing Garbage to Oil - Eliminating Landfills with a New Technology"

ABSTRACT -- Billions of tons of agricultural, industrial and municipal waste are produced each year in the United States. Changing World Technologies, Inc. (CWT) has developed the Thermal Conversion Process (TCP) which converts organic waste residuals and low value materials into marketable high quality clean fuels and specialty chemicals. The TCP provides a solution to many health, environmental and economic issues which result from waste disposal, animal disease, food contamination and natural disasters. CWT, through its agricultural joint venture with ConAgra Foods, Inc., has completed its first demonstration commercial facility in Carthage, Missouri which is converting a variety of materials from the nearby Butterball turkey processing plant into safe, useful and saleable products. This highly-energy efficient process is able to cost effectively produce a high-grade petroleum product, which replaces oil that would have been extracted from underground reserves. Eventually, this factory will turn 200 tons of turkey offal into 400 barrels of oil on a daily basis. The TCP has also been successfully tested on numerous other waste streams such as mixed plastics, shredder residue, rubber and sewage sludge. In each case, waste streams are converted into saleable energy products and specialty chemicals, which do not damage our air, land or water resources. The significance of this new process has been reported by a wide range of media including Discover magazine, Money magazine, the National Geographic, and CBS news, and the technology has made the Scientific American 50.

SPEAKER -- Brian S. Appel is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CWT, a company responsible for successfully bringing emerging, environment-friendly technologies to the international marketplace. Mr. Appel founded CWT in 1997, and in 1999 started up CWT's research and development facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where CWT's waste-to-energy process was tested and developed. Mr. Appel also serves on the board of directors of Renewable Environmental Solutions, LLC, CWT's joint venture with ConAgra Foods, Inc., as well as the board of New Uses Council, a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of bio-based industries and renewable products. He is a member of the Energy Future Coalition, an organization that seeks to bring about change in U.S. policy relating to the production and use of energy. Mr. Appel was honored with a 2003 Small Business Excellence Award for "Innovative Business of the Year" by the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Appel earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Hofstra University, where he attended on an NCAA basketball scholarship, and is a member of the Hofstra University Pride Club.