Fluor Corp. has been awarded a contract by Rentech Inc. to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for the Rialto Renewable Energy Center (Rialto Project) located 50mi east of Los Angeles. Under the agreement, Fluor will perform FEED services for the facility and the project’s supporting infrastructure. The Rialto Project, which will use green urban waste as feedstock, is expected to be the first commercial biomass gasification facility in the US that will co-produce renewable electric power and synthetic diesel fuel. The Rialto Project is designed to produce about 35MW of base-load renewable electricity (enough energy to power approximately 30,000 homes) and 640bpd of renewable, ultra-clean synthetic fuels from urban woody green waste, such as yard and tree trimmings. The life-cycle carbon footprint of the fuels and power is expected to be near zero, and the renewable power (RenPowerTM) meets the requirements of California’s Renewable Portfolio Standard.
