Image via WikipediaWhat is Plasma Gasification?
In plasma gasification, fuel or waste is fed to a reactor vessel where an electrically generated plasma at a temperature of 20,000 C° is present. When the fuel or waste is exposed to the plasma it is heated to a very high temperature (>2,000C°), which causes the organic compounds in the fuel or waste to dissociate into very simple molecules such as hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, water vapour and methane. These simple molecules, that are all gases, are allowed to continuously flow from the reactor to gas cooling and cleaning equipment. Ash and other inorganic material present in the fuel or waste is melted down to a complex liquid silicate that flows to the bottom of the reaction vessel.
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