| Some things are very difficult to recycle. Most of the | | | | The PGP system can process any waste stream |
| time, leftover waste will end up in landfills or | | | | such as: MSW (Municipal Solid Waste), biomedical |
| incinerators. This is where the “Plasma | | | | waste and spent potliner, a granular waste from |
| Gasification Process (PGP)” comes in. The | | | | aluminum smelting, biomass, oil shale, automobile fluff, |
| process offers a zero waste solution to converting | | | | lead contaminated soils, municipal sewage sludge, |
| garbage to a clean synthetic gas and other products | | | | paint sludge, drum reconditioning sludge, organic |
| to make electricity, fertilizer, construction material, | | | | petrochemical sludge, illicit drugs, high metal content |
| salt and clean water. | | | | waste, coal and MSW incinerator ashes, paper mill |
| PGP is a thermal process that involves the application | | | | reject waste, fluorescent light ballasts, asbestos |
| of intense heat to waste materials in a completely | | | | containing material, explosives industry waste, rubber |
| closed, controlled, and oxygen-starved environment. | | | | tires and industrial hazardous wastes including PCBs |
| This process converts waste materials into a clean | | | | and concentrated insecticides. |
| synthetic gas and heat that can be used to generate | | | | There is virtually no limit to the amount of waste |
| electricity. This is not an incineration process because | | | | which can be processed. The PGP system is |
| no burning occurs. | | | | particularly adaptable to designing total systems |
| There are three products produced by PGP. The | | | | around a multiple processing string approach. The |
| main product of the process is a synthetic gas | | | | string size for waste streams such as MSW can be |
| produced when the volatile elements in the waste | | | | up to 200 metric tons per day with multiple plasma |
| material are reduced to their base molecules. This gas | | | | arc generator heating systems per string. The |
| is used to generate electricity by feeding it into the | | | | optimum string size for other types of waste is |
| same type of gas engine used in the production of | | | | dictated by the characteristics of the waste itself. |
| electricity from natural gas. | | | | There are no emissions from the PGP system. Air |
| The second product of the process is heat which | | | | emissions are limited to those produced in the |
| produces steam. The steam is collected and fed into | | | | exhaust from operation of the engines or turbines |
| the electricity generation process to improve its | | | | which use the syngas to generate electricity, and |
| efficiency. | | | | meet or better all Canadian or European standards |
| The third and final product of the process is a | | | | per kwh of electricity produced. |
| glass-like reusable solid (otherwise known as slag) | | | | Currently, no other technology generates as much |
| that is produced when the non-volatile elements of | | | | power from a tonne of waste and no other |
| the waste material decompose. As hard and clean as | | | | technology has lower emissions per watt of |
| glass, this solid has a variety of uses such as a road | | | | generated power. A current PGP conversion plant can |
| or building material additive. The solid does not react | | | | generate up to 1.2 MWh of electricity per tonne of |
| with other elements and leaches less than the glass | | | | waste – enough to power an average household |
| from a common soda bottle. | | | | for 50 days. |