The Company’s technologically advanced, patented Plasma Arc Gasification System (PAG) provides superior gasification process capabilities, safe environmental attributes, and low operating costs. There is no other product/technology on the market today that provides comparable breadth of results.

Cost Effective

The PAG uses little utility services; electricity consumption is low; water use is minimal; and sewer costs are also minimal (due to low water usage). The operators of the PAG need no formal skills; the PAG uses no flammable gases or fuels; and most maintenance parts are readily available from standard suppliers. The total PAG processing costs range from $0.00 to $0.11 per pound of material processed. And, unlike incinerators and most other treatment processes, there is negligible waste transportation costs for the residue. In most cases, the non-leaching residue can be sewer discharged. Furthermore, the PAG’s capital cost is comparable with other alternative technology disposal units, and is much less than current incinerator prices.

Volume and Weight Control Reduction

Utilizing the Company’s proprietary technology reduces both the volume (90%) and mass (90%) of the processed material is reduced. In addition to the cost savings from transportation, this great reduction of residual waste saves landfill space, and the ability to reuse the residue provides a long term environmental benefit and advantage for the site operator.

Non-Segregation of Waste

The Company’s system is capable of handling virtually any waste or feed stream, including sharps (metal, plastics, and glass), plastics of all types, fluids, cloth and paper products, wood, pharmaceuticals, pathological wastes, anatomical parts, chemotherapeutic wastes, agri, petro, industrial, low level nuclear, and commercial waste. Furthermore, segregation of waste is not require nor is any “packaging” of waste prior to treatment necessary. This results in reduced costs from less waste handling prior to processing, as well as efficiencies in the site facility operation.

Safety

The Company’s system was also built with safety in mind. For example, during power outages, the PAG renders all material non-hazardous regardless of the treatment stage because the internal chambers of the machine are heated between 800°F and 2000°F prior to processing. Therefore, any unprocessed material inside the machine is exposed to this heat. The material left inside the machine is completely processed by the heat available in the powerless PAG. This is similar to a self-cleaning oven, where the waste breaks down to the same end product. Many other technologies jeopardize humans to possible contamination due to “total system” shutdown during a power outage.

Simplicity of Use

The Plasma Arc Reduction System is also noted for its ease-of-use. The Company’s computer controls limit human operator input by automatically monitoring and controlling the material, pressure, temperature, and pH levels during processing. This feature reduces potential human errors and labor costs.

Universal Designed Units

The Company currently manufactures the PAG 6, a six yard per hour, up to 600 pounds per hour, up to 4,500,000 pounds per year unit; but will expand into multiple sized units that can process from 100 pounds of waste per hour up to 6,000 pounds per hour as current production stabilizes. These units are based on one standard design, but can be easily adapted to meet unique customer needs and specifications. In addition, all models can adapt to desired increases or decreases in waste flow (loading cycles). As such, the Company will be able to provide a full range of alternatives to meet a broader range of customer’s needs.

Non-Toxic / Non-Hazardous Byproducts

Residues leaving the PAG process are environmentally friendly. In addition to the safety feature of non-hazardous byproducts, processing costs are reduced as further treatment or special packaging of residues is eliminated.

Insignificant Emissions

Since the PAG’s technology does not use combustion to disintegrate the processed material, the PAG limits and controls environmentally harmful substances. Compared to the harmful dioxins emitted from incinerators and oxidizing processes, the PAG’s low emission feature is welcomed by the government, waste generators, environmentalists, and the public. In addition, incineration, thermo oxidation, fired gasification process users typically require some additional apparatus to reduce or eliminate emissions at a total higher cost of operation.

Free Heat Recovery

The Company’s process has the ability to capture heat from the process in the form of steam, if the customer has a use. This feature may be added to a system when a future need might arise. The PAG coolant system incorporates a heat transfer or boiler feed system for high temperature steam generation. The PAG passes water through the Incandescent Plasma chamber rollers for direct heat transfer to generate steam or radiant discharged through a heat exchanger. This steam generation system operates with or independent of the facility’s boiler system. Both of these features are standard and easily adapted to the customer’s requirements at any time. This ultimately lowers the material processing cost as it subsidizes the cost of operations for other facility functions.

OUR PLASMA TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION

Plasma OrbThe Plasma Arc Gasification System was introduced to the public in 1993 to fill the growing need for environmentally sound, cost effective waste disposal, especially with respect to medical waste. Traditionally, health care facilities have used conventional incineration (a process whereby wastes are ”burned”) to dispose of their medical waste. However, with more stringent federal and state regulations regarding dioxin and other emission levels from incinerators and increasing waste requirements for landfills, hospitals and other health care facilities are searching for alternatives to incineration that are both cost effective and environmentally sound. From the initial units testing of Regulated Medical Waste design units, many tests proved the ability of the PAG process to effectually process feed stock for generation of a fuel gas and liquid fuel for world wide applications.
The Company’s proprietary product was developed from a 60 year-old technology in an innovative process. The PAG process utilizes electrical energy discharged into a material stream. Within the process chamber, the material is trapped in a plasma cloud formed by the ionization of an inert gas. The material gasification occurs within the plasma chamber without incurring combustion. The treatment physically fractures the molecular bonds of feed material into simple compounds, converting it to carbon black, elemental metals, silica, and plasma processed gasses.
The plasma arc process is similar to the operation of a light bulb. The feed material acts like a light bulb filament, as it is enclosed in an oxygen deficient, sealed container and surrounded by an inert gas. The PAG then exposes the enclosed material to an electrical current that breaks the molecular bonds of the material and releases intense light and heat. This energy, released from the disruption of the molecular bonds and converted to heat and light, adds to the energy injected into the process where temperatures reach in excess of 15,000°F. Byproducts of the process are dependent upon the feed material composition. In addition, the process reclaims the heat released from the gasification process through a transfer system for the generation of steam.
There are three unique components of the Plasma Arc Gasification System that significantly distinguish it from other plasma processes, creating the most technically advanced system available. These components are as follows: (1) the electron flow used to disrupt the waste’s molecular bonds in the destructive process, (2) the use of an inert plasma cloud to give the waste conductive properties, and (3) the low pressure inert atmosphere, which permits easy and economical control of the process while eliminating the harmful byproducts typical of a combustion process.