March 25 2008 / by AlFin
Category: Environment Year: 2008 Month: Mar Rating: 12 Hot
By Al Fin
Garbage and hazardous waste are becoming valuable energy
feedstocks, thanks to researchers from Ukraine, Russia, and Israel.
Even low level radioactive wastes, medical wastes, and toxic wastes
can be converted to useful products and energy, using a new high
temperature plasma reactor.
There is no need for the world to drown in a sea of garbage and
toxic waste. We do not need to pollute the oceans, groundwater, or
air. Being smart about toxic waste is just another way of using our
most valuable resource-our brains!
Environmental Energy
Resources Ltd. (EER) of Israel, is working with researchers in
Russia, the Ukraine, the US, and other nations, to make sure that
the future environment of Earth will be as pristine as the
pre-industrial Earth.
The new reactor uses a process called “Plasma Gasification
Melting Technology” (PGM) which was developed by scientists at two
Russian research institutes (Kurchatov and Radon Institutes) and at
Israel’s Technion Institute.
PGM Technology is suitable
for the treatment of a variety of waste types:
(cont.)
- Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)
- Low and Intermediate Radioactive Waste (LILRW)
- Medical Waste (MW)
- Industrial Waste (IW)
- Automotive Shredded Residues (ASR)
- Hazardous Materials Waste (HW)
- Effluent-Treatment Sludge (ETS)
The highest rate of volume reduction, residues inertization,
solidification and immobilization, important not only in the
treatment of hazardous wastes (MW, LILRW
etc.) and the efficient energy recovery as well as overall
environmental characteristics such as benign residues and the
lowest permissible emissions in the treatment of MSW and other wastes, are the unique qualities of
this PGM Technology.
High temperature plasma treatment of hazardous waste appears to
solve two important problems of modern industrial societies:
1) Dealing with hazardous wastes such as industrial, medical,
and radioactive waste.
2) Producing clean energy.
To top it off, this process also creates safe, useful
construction materials.
I can hear some people saying: “This is not exciting. This is
garbage and toxic waste!” Exactly. Let us use our brains so that
turning toxic and radioactive waste into valuable and useful
products becomes merely an everyday approach to leaving this place
cleaner than we found it.
More information at
Al Fin Blog and NextEnergyNews.
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