How can plasma recycle Municipal Solid Waste (MSW, household garbage) into electricity, and ethanol?
Instead of landfilling or incinerating MSW, a Plasma Gasification process converts all types of waste streams (gas, liquid or solid) into a fuel gas composed primarily of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, nitrogen and water. This fuel gas is then used to generate electrical power. The process is very efficient. 99.9% of the waste that is input into the system is converted to energy or other salable products. Typical gasification or incineration plants generate up to 30% residual waste that must be hauled to a landfill. The system uses a high temperature flame (up to 10,000 degrees Celsius – to put this into perspective notices that the temperature at the surface of the sun is approximately 5,000 degrees) to “gasify” or literally disintegrate carbon based materials into an energy rich fuel gas with a BTU value about 1/3 that of natural gas (one BTU is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water of 1 degree Fahrenheit at atmospheric pressure – stands for British
