What is the difference between Enerkems gasification process and a plasma gasification process?
Unlike Enerkem’s technology, current plasma technologies include little gas conditioning. This does not allow them to produce liquid fuels and other high-value-added products, such as chemicals. These technologies burn gas for heat and power, but do not create a gas product of sufficient purity to allow fuels and true biorefineries to be developed from society’s waste. They also use so-called “plasma” temperatures, which vary between 4,000º and 5,000º C. Temperatures like these require exotic materials because of the difficult and expensive operating environment and these high temperatures also consume such significant amounts of energy that the overall process produces very little net energy. Enerkem’s technology uses temperatures of approximately 700º C.
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