Plasma gasification converts carbon-containing materials - such as coal, petroleum coke and municipal solid waste or biomass - into a synthesis gas (syngas) composed primarily of carbon monoxide and ...

My town council is considering a proposal to build a plasma incinerator. The company behind the project says the facility will convert solid waste into energy, without producing any harmful emissions.

Plasma gasification represents a cutting-edge approach to the thermochemical conversion of solid wastes into valuable energy carriers and inert by-products. By exposing feedstocks—ranging from ...

From the highway, one of the biggest landfills in the US doesn't look at all like a dump. It's more like a misplaced mesa. Only when you drive closer to the center of operations at the 700-acre ...

NRG Energy’s proposed 112-MW project to repower its coal-fired Somerset Station in Massachusetts with plasma gasification technology has moved on to the due diligence phase of the Department of Energy ...

TANEYTOWN – Despite rumors circulating the city that ALFA Group LLC had selected a site in Taneytown for a plasma gasification plant to dispose of 1,500 to 3,000 tons per day of municipal solid waste, ...

Recently St. Lucie County in Florida announced that it has teamed up with Geoplasma to develop the United States’ first plasma gasification plant. The plant will use super-hot 10,000 degree fahrenheit ...

Trash is loaded with the energy trapped in its chemical bonds. Plasma gasification, a technology that has been in development for decades, could finally be ready to extract it. In theory, the process ...

Modern science has given us incredible breakthroughs in medicine, biology, agriculture, transportation, electronics, and communications, but along with the benefits come problems as well. Virtually ...

SOMERSET — A spokesman for NRG says that the owner of the Somerset Station has decided not to pursue plasma gasification as a way to retool the power plant that has been one of the biggest taxpayers ...

Many of the concerns of residents regarding the plasma gasification facility near Taneytown is a result of confusion over how the facility will work, said John Bixler, project manager for ALFA Group.