Startech Environmental Corp.
http://www.startech.net
Startech is the only publicly traded waste-to-energy plasma arc technology company in the world. They presently have three 5 ton/day installati...
Startech is the only publicly traded waste-to-energy plasma arc technology company in the world. They presently have three 5 ton/day installations in operation, with a number of other plants in various stages of implementation. A 200 ton/day plant being built by Startech in Panama will be the largest such plant in the world, and will convert ordinary garbage into hydrogen that can be used in fuel cells to generate electricity or directly as a fuel for combustion. The Panama plant is expected to be operational in 2008. "Waste is not garbage, but a commercially valuable, renewable resource." (StarTech Promotional Video.)
What is Plasma?
Plasma is simply a gas (air) that the Converter ionizes so it becomes an effective electrical conductor and produces a lightning-like arc of electricity that is the source of the intense energy transferred to the waste material as radiant energy. The arc in the plasma plume within the vessel can be as high as 30,000 degrees Fahrenheit ... three times hotter than the surface of the Sun. When waste materials are subjected to the intensity of the energy transfer within the vessel, the excitation of the wastes' molecular bonds is so great that the waste materials' molecules break apart into their elemental components (atoms). It is the absorption of this energy by the waste material that forces the waste destruction and elemental dissociation. The Plasma Converter is computer controlled, easy to use and operates at normal atmospheric pressure, very safely and quietly.
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I'd guess difficult to implement. Like that hydrogen filter...where do the other gasses go? How often do you have to clean the filters? Also from what I understand plasma is ionized inert gasses so how do you get around making a plasma with non-inert gasses and oxygen in the gasification chamber...I don't know the voltages involved but I'm sure it would require a huge current/power output. How much energy returned from the gas after filtering? Better than landfill I suppose
Dioxin is a chemical molecule formed of specific element...this technology used in Japan for at least a decade "breaks" all chemical molecular bonds converting molecules back to their base elements...what your thinking about is an incinerator. They run at 1/3 the temp and can't fully break all chemical bonds, thus creating harmful emissions like,..dioxins. Ps there is more energy released by the waste than the unit uses... by a huge factor...thus this unit is self sustaining and only needs fuel.
How big or I should say how small can these things be? can you have them on a truck so that they can be driven to a accident or used by hasmat teams when a chemicial spill. wher I live right now there is a lot of PCB that the paper companies dumped into the rivers and lakes. They are dregding the stuff and into a land fill. put the plant on a barge and drege and produce power.What about shit? New York may become our biggest power plant.
This is a great process that can have great impacts in our world.
However, the problem is that Startech didn't develop this process....they only reverse engineered a much more efficient version that has much better industrial applications
You are wrong. This is my field and I have all of the conversion ratios at my fingertips. Not only is it effecient, but suprisingly affordable to run. Don't let anybody bullshit you about that. We have multiple operational plants, I know.
Some places in the world have a very high recycling rate, something like 90% of waste created is recycled, definitely better than bunging it in a hole. I wouldn't know if one of these devices could be scalable for a backyard because i haven't seen any specs on one, that was my original point, no specs. I know plasma cutters use an extremely large amount of electrical energy, this thing probably does too.
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However, the problem is that Startech didn't develop this process....they only reverse engineered a much more efficient version that has much better industrial applications
I wouldn't know if one of these devices could be scalable for a backyard because i haven't seen any specs on one, that was my original point, no specs. I know plasma cutters use an extremely large amount of electrical energy, this thing probably does too.