Deep dive: Plasma Waste Converters
Municipal solid waste is considered a renewable resource, because its production in our society is continuous. Plasma Waste Conversion (PWC) is a unique technology utilizing this waste stream with a broad range of positive impacts to our economy and environment.
Eliminates the need for land fills, freeing up additional space for other purposes.
Provides a means to potentially mine old land fills, which eliminates the leaching and other contamination issues associated with land fills; including the resultant methane production which is a significant green house contributor.
PWC is the ultimate in recycling since all organics are turned into energy and all metals and in-organics are fed back into the economy without the need for sorting or separate handling.
PWC provides distributed generation capacity. As a result, restructuring the National Power Grid to distribute the power would not be a part of the cost equation.
If utilized nationally PWC would provide about 70 Gigawatts of distributed generation.
This distributed power will fuel economic growth, help maintain cheap electricity, and reduce demand on natural gas.
Provides a significant decrease in Green House gases.
For a more detailed explanation of a plasma waste converter, go to: http://www.howstuffworks.com/plasma.htm
KVA has made significant improvements in increasing the efficiency in generation of electricity and recovery of waste heat and continues research to advance those improvements even further. For more details on this subject refer to Waste Heat to Electricity on this web site.
