Waste = Fuel
The average person produces almost five pounds of trash per day. Everything from food waste, to packaging, to the plastic water bottles and empty soft drink cans we use. The Metro New Orleans area produces approximately 4,000 tons of garbage daily. Instead of landfilling...
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Plasma for Energy
Plasma gasification is used worldwide as an efficient and environmentally responsible process to upgrade lower value feed materials including municipal solid waste (MSW), tires, sludge, biomass and coal into higher value materials including electricity, liquid transportation fuels or chemicals. The Sun Energy plant will use this process to destroy locally generated MSW, and use the resulting synthetic fuel to produce electricity. In the plasma gasification process, high temperatures are used to break down the molecular structure of complex carbon-containing materials and convert them into synthesis gas (syngas) containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Since gasification occurs in an oxygen starved environment, the waste is gasified versus incinerated.
