Key Benefits

High Net Electrical Efficiency

The Gasplasma^® energy from waste process is designed to maximise the energy recovery from the waste feedstock giving one of the highest net electrical efficiency processes on the market today providing an enhanced benefit to the environment.

A full-scale 150,000 tonnes per year of residual waste Gasplasma^® energy from waste plant uses:

• Combined Heat and Power (CHP) technology, increasing fuel efficiency
• Renewable power is generated , enough for around 15,000 homes
• Renewable heat, enough for around 700 homes

The Gasplasma^® energy from waste process gains efficiencies by creating a high energy content but low volume, hydrogen-rich synthesis gas (syngas).

THE Premium Quality Syngas from Waste

The Gasplasma^® energy from waste process produces a high quality synthesis gas (syngas) that is very clean and hydrogen rich.

Very clean hydrogen-rich syngas:
Gasplasma^® produces a very clean syngas.  All tars and chars and long chain hydrocarbons carried over in the crude syngas from the gasifier are converted into a hydrogen rich syngas whilst the inorganic fraction is fully vitrified in the separate second stage Plasma Converter.  The final gas is then cleaned, cooled and conditioned for use in gas engines or turbines.

The syngas can be further refined or processed to make pure gases, like hydrogen, or biofuels including jet aviation fuel.

Carbon Footprint

Wardell-Armstrong conducted an independent analysis of the CO² emissions of the Gasplasma^® process which shows that it has negative CO² emissions compared to the Incineration and UK Power Generation.

Minimal Emissions

The emissions from an Advanced Plasma Power Gasplasma^® plant comply with the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) - replacing the Waste Incineration Directive (WID) - more specifically Directive 2000/76/EC of the European Parliament. IED is a directive, issued by the European Union (EU), that relates to standards and methodologies required for the practice and technology of incineration. The aim of the Directive is to minimise the impact of negative environmental effects on the environment and human health resulting from emissions to air, soil, surface and ground water from the incineration and co-incineration of waste.  The Gasplasma^® process complies with this Directive as it relates to EU plants and employs emissions control technology that ensures that these emission limits are easily met.

Products from Waste

Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) contains a mixture of organic and inorganic substances.

All the organic substances are transformed into a clean hydrogen-rich synthesis gas which can be used directly in gas engines or gas turbines.

All inorganic materials are vitrified into a glassy environmentally friendly substance called Plasmarok^®, which is:

• Mechanically strong
• Environmentally inert – leachate resistant
• A Product not a waste – considered a product by the UK Environment Agency

For more information see our Projects from Waste Datasheet

Low Visual Impact

A Gasplasma^® energy from waste plant has a stack height of only 10 metres above the eaves (16m) and a physical footprint of less than 10,000sqm, the same size as a soccer pitch or roughly the same size as a retail warehouse.

A Gasplasma^® plant comfortably fits into an existing edge of town industrial site and it is unlikely to raise planning objections.

APP's energy from waste plant is scalable.  This means that one or more Gasplasma^® plants can be built to meet the needs of local communities.

A single full scale 150,000 tonnes per year MSW energy from waste plant is the ideal size to handle waste from a city borough.