The Environment
The Gasplasma Process is an advanced conversion technology developed to treat household, commercial and other mixed solid wastes.
- It converts the organic matter to a gas that is useable for renewable energy generation.
- It converts the inorganic matter to an inert vitrified residue useable as an aggregate.
- It is a ‘closed process’ that produces no environmentally polluting gases.
- It leaves almost nothing (around 1 per cent of input volumes) to go to landfill.
The environmental impact is further reduced because:
- The process requires a limited footprint that extends to no more than 2,000 square metres including feedstock reception and storage. (The plant fits into a standard retail warehouse).
- It requires a low chimney, unlike combustion or incineration processes.
These low profile, unobtrusive accommodation features combined with:
- the low volume non-polluting discharge to air and
- the vastly reduced need to transport residues (that are, in any case, inert and, therefore, do not need special handling),
mean that, from a planning point of view, Gasplasma facilities can be built on a scale to meet the needs of local communities and so avoiding the large regional solutions that require waste to be transported from a wide catchment area.
- The consequence of this is an additional substantial saving in transport costs, fuel usage as well as pollution and congestion.
- We anticipate that the process will consume well below half the electricity it generates with the surplus exported to local end-users or onto the national grid.
- The Gasplasma Process qualifies for ROC's and will be able to generate substantial quantities of Renewable power.
- All the heat generated will either be used in the process itself, for further power production, or for export to local users, achieving energy efficiencies of around 60%.