Based on the matrices introduced, the system may, or may not, produce electricity. Based on the matrices introduced, the system may, or may not, produce thermal energy transformable, through an optional ORC systems, into electricity.
Ignoring, until doing a Feasibility Study, the real nature of the fluid matrices and therefore their real energy potential, prudentially, we believe plausible only a condition of balance between what is produced and what is consumed, limiting ourselves to the production of electricity using the syngas in an internal combustion engine of adequate power.
By adopting a combined cycle, net of self-consumption, a gasifier with good quality organic matrices can easily exceed 1,200 kWh for each ton treated.
Professor Louis J. Circeo of Georgia Tech University, the greatest living expert in plasma torch technology, claims that a ton of MSW entered in a plasma torch provides over 800kWh using an internal combustion engine. We conservatively reduce this value to 550kWh.
As we are not manufacturer of technology linked to the production of electricity, we will choose each suppliers’ products on a case by case basis depending on the size of the plant and on the quality of the syngas produced. Each technology that will be adopted will have different yield parameters.
To date, these yields are only possible by adopting such cutting-edge technologies; moreover, the mounting ecological sensitivity pushes to the margins of legality some technologies, once considered also promising, such as the transformation of plastics into fuel oil by autoclave treatment, a technology now banned by almost the whole European Community due to the very high pollution associated with this technology that does not present any applicable improvement margin.
