The way it works is two electrroid beams are pointed at the object and heat that object to a tempature of 1,500 degrees farheight which mixes with oxygen and steam. This results in the object is vaporized to 75 to 85 percent. This turns the object into syngas. Then the melted object is filed into a tube that heats the object at a tempature of 18,000 degrees (which is hotter than a lightning bolt). This causes the object to vaporize and finaly it is turned into plasma. The trash that somehow survives is transmitted into a lower chamber where it is melted and turned into inert blocks and molton gas.
Dozens of firms are racing to find the right formula to use plasma to blast garbage into gas. Yet despite improvements in the technology, plasma has proved too energy for real world use on everyday trash. If the value of the syngas produced doesn’t effect the amount of energy required to power the furnaces. Than we may figure out how to turn trash into gas to power our cars
Over 250 million trash objects are turned into plasma a year. Even with recycling and composting facilities tackling an estimated 85 million tons of refuse per year, it would take thousands of new plants to make trash into electricity and other things.
"The Plasma Converter - Physics211_Craig_Mckenzie." The Plasma Converter - Physics211_Craig_Mckenzie. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Jan. 2014.
I think your blog was full of facts which was very interesting. I remember seeing a plasma trash converter when I was in New York.
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