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PLASMA GASIFICATION

What is Plasma Gasification?

Plasma, often referred to as the “fourth state of matter”, is the term given to a gas that has become ionized. An ionized gas is one where the atoms of the gas have lost one or more electrons and have become electrically charged. The sun and lightning are examples of plasma in nature. Passing an electrical discharge through a gas such as air/oxygen forms man-made Plasma. The interaction of the electric discharge and the processed gas causes the temperature of the gas to increase significantly often-exceeding 5,500°C (10,000°F), nearly as hot as the sun’s surface.

Plasma torches can be fed with process gases of widely varying chemical composition including air, oxygen, nitrogen, argon and others. This flexibility allows them to tailor the plasma torch system to best fit our customers’ needs. Plasma technology can increase the energy of the processed gas to between two to ten times higher than conventional combustion.

Plasma Gasification is a process that converts carbon-containing materials such as coal, petroleum coke, municipal solid waste, or biomass, into a synthesis gas, (syngas), composed primarily of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Gasification occurs when a carbon-containing feedstock is exposed to elevated temperatures and/or pressures in the presence of controlled amounts of oxygen. Syngas can be used as a fuel to generate electricity or steam or it can be used as a basic chemical building block in the production of high value energy products such as diesel or electricity.

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