What are the advantages of plasma gasification?

Increased temperature and higher degree of temperature control provides several advantages including:

• Fuel Flexibility - Uses renewable and recurring resources
• Significant reductions in carbon footprint and overall pollution
• Creates an affordable and stable energy source
• Strong economic returns today
• Qualifies for financial incentives and credits (American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, DOE loan guarantees)
• Existing commercially operating facilities for >7 years
• Energy self sufficiency - governments are endorsing plasma solutions
  

The Westinghouse Plasma Centre in Madison, PA is a large scale commercial demonstration (48 tpd) that allows our customers to test their specific feedstock and determine the actual syngas composition.



This picture is an ethanol facility located at our Westinghouse Plasma Centre in Madison, PA.  This facilities takes the syngas from our gasifier and converts it into ethanol.  The total process take waste biomass (wood chips, straw, etc) and turns it into ethanol.