Waste treatment and alternative energy generation are two of the most difficult and important challenges facing the world today. Increasing global production, coupled with the rapid industrialization seen in many developing countries, is forcing the world to rethink not only how it handles waste, but also how it views it as a resource.

The two dominant solutions to waste treatment, incineration and landfill, continue to fall out of favor with regulators and the general public for a myriad of reasons (pollution and land use issues, waste of valuable resources, recycling minimum, etc.), however, as environmental challenges increase and waste continues to be generated, alternative solutions are mandatory.

With strict regulations in place and increasing enforcement, industries and communities around the world are focusing on newer technologies that would be efficient, non-polluting, economical and easy to use in the management of hazardous/industrial and municipal waste.

PTDR’s core technology uses a plasma arc to convert almost any type of waste into a non-toxic alternative to natural gas, as well as other useful end products, such as a non-leachable vitrified matrix. No secondary pollution or by-products are generated. Both technologies are proven, cost-effective and commercially viable solutions for waste treatment, recycling and alternative resource production.

Using the patented and environmentally friendly core PTDR technology produces the following three end products from the processing of waste raw materials:

• A clean synthetic gas (“syngas”) that is a valuable alternative energy source (approximate calorific value: 8 to 10 MJ/Nm3, ~250 MMBTU/SCF);
• An inert vitreous glass matrix that has excellent applications in the construction industry; Y
• Mixtures of recovered metals or metal alloys.

All raw material is 100% waste diversion, which eliminates landfill and/or further processing (some consider this a “zero waste” solution).

There are four basic models of basic PTDR systems. The PTDR-100 (60 kg/h or 1.4 MT/day) and PTDR-200 (125 kg or 3 MT/day) systems are designed for on-site treatment. The PTDR-500 (350 kg/h or 8.4 MT/day) and PTDR-1000 (1500 kg/h or 36 MT/day) systems can be used on-site by individual generators with higher capacity or centralized processing (BOO) needs. .

Any commercial-stage waste-to-energy that specializes in the deployment of its patented Plasma Thermal Destruction Recovery™ (“PTDR”) technology for the treatment and recycling of a wide range of waste feedstocks, including: industrial waste, hazardous and medical, with a mission to provide a robust, efficient and environmentally sound methodology for the treatment of toxic waste and hazardous waste and its conversion into commercial commodities creating a renewable source of energy and value-added products.