InEnTec converts hazardous waste to fuel
InEnTech’s Plasma Enhanced Melter (PEM) turns hazardous waste into syngas and other products. The PEM can also be used for converting industrial, medical, radioactive, tire and municipal waste into synfuel and other usable products.
The PEM process developed by scientists and engineers at InEnTec, uses a multiple stage process when converting waste into its varied forms. First the waste, also known as feedstock, goes into a pre-gasification chamber where 80 percent of organic waste becomes syngas. The remaining in organic materials drop down into the “PEM process vessel”.
In the PEM process vessel, the rest of the feedstock drops onto molten glass near the plasma-arc zone. The PEM has two sources of heat that are created by two separate power sources. DC power is used to create the plasma arc and AC power to create joule heating for the glass bath at the bottom of the chamber. The plasma arc does the primary gasification of the feedstock and the glass bath converts the rest of the feedstock into metal or glass products that are distilled through two separate pipes.
The syngas made in each chamber is “ducted” to yet another chamber, the Thermal Residence Chamber (THC). This chamber hold the syngas at temperatures that cause any remaining inorganic material to be processed and to allow the “allow the gasification reaction to reach equilibrium.” The syngas is cleaned through further standard processes once it leaves the THC.
The final products from the entire process can be used in new ways. The syngas is converted into chemicals and various types of synfuel like electric generation, liquid fuels production or conversion to industrial products such as hydrogen. The glass and metal products become roofing tiles, insulating panels, sand-blasting media and other construction-related products from the glass; and recoverable metals for other uses.
At the end of this process formerly hazardous waste has been converted into usable products that are no longer considered hazardous. This allows waste that has formerly required costly disposal that has contaminated water and land to be recycled. This is an excellent way to handle hazardous keeping our soil and water safe from possible contamination and free for other uses.
This process works so well that InEnTec and Waste Management have formed S4 Energy Solutions, LLC. This will allow Waste Management’s commercial and industrial customers to have their waste safely disposed of. This helps Waste Management to reach two very important goals: “doubling its renewable energy production to provide enough power for the equivalent of two million homes by 2020, and investing in emerging technologies for managing waste.”
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June 13th, 2009
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