At this time HI Disposal Systems, LLC is permitting only "high dollar volume" (non-LLRW) waste streams. HI is interested in finding a partner or establishing a joint venture with a community that is interested in processing their own municipal waste, along with other waste streams.

HI feels that a community should eventually be responsible for all the waste that community generates, both non-hazardous and hazardous. Plasma energy technology can now provide a safer; more reliable and cost effective method of destroying most of a communities waste streams, without the dangers of being transported hundreds of miles. Most communities process their own wastewater, so why not process their own solid waste?

PEAT, Inc.’s Thermal Destruction and Recovery system (TDR) can help municipalities process non-infectious, non-hazardous, and non-radioactive wastes more efficiently.

• May be permitted as a non-incinerator
• Minimizes pre-processing
• Complies with air emission standards
• Easily, effectively destroys a variety of materials
• Minimizes landfill disposal costs
• Facilitates energy recovery

New regulations governing disposal of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) are spurring many waste generators to explore more effective disposal methods. As landfill costs continue to rise, city and county governments are faced with processing greater volumes of MSW while operating within strict environmental and budgetary confines. Peat’s TDR helps governments meet critical waste processing challenges by minimizing landfill disposal costs, ensuring air emission standards compliance, and enabling energy recovery from waste.

May be permitted as a non-incinerator. PEAT’s TDR Process employs high-temperature gasification and will produce an atmospheric discharge of gases. Each system will require a site-specific air permit. The TDR Process is extremely efficient at destroying organic compounds, and the emission of organic pollutants such as Dioxins and Furans is almost non-existent.

Minimizes Pre-Processing Requirements There is little, if any, pre-processing required for MSW before it is processed in PEAT’s TDR System. The feed system can accommodate MSW as received. Removal of large ferrous and aluminum metal items that can be directly recycled will make the process slightly more cost effective.

Complies with air emission standards. The TDR Process is extremely efficient at destroying organic compounds, and the emission of organic pollutants such as Dioxins and Furans is almost nonexistent.

It is versatile - handles MSW, industrial waste, used tires, and medical waste. Hazardous materials frequently found in MSW, (pesticides, paints, solvents, cleaning supplies, oils, etc.) are as easily destroyed by the TDR Process as are plastics, paper and wood. PEAT’s TDR can process any type.

Provides the most complete possible destruction of all types of MSW. Processing MSW, as received, will virtually eliminate landfill requirements for MSW. The TDR Process for treating the inorganics (metal, glass, dirt, rocks, etc.) in the waste is vitrification and smelting.

Offers several options for recovery of energy. The main advantage of using PEAT’s TDR gasification process for MSW is additional options for using the syngas produced by the process. Cost/benefit studies show that only large scale systems (>100 tons/day) will yield results that are competitive. At this scale, the process will produce enough electricity to be self -sustaining, and the remaining syngas is sufficient to manufacture basic chemical feed stock for the chemical industry. The energy potential of MSW will vary from 4,500 to 6,000 Btu/lb. depending on its composition, and can be used as a fuel in plants. The fuel gas produced by pyrolysis of organic materials is composed primarily of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, similar to the syngas produced by steam gasification of coal. The simplest energy recovery method is burning the syngas in a steam boiler, and adding steam turbines for electricity generation. Refrigeration/chiller systems are also an efficient option. Not all of the syngas produced by TDR Processing of MSW will be required in co-generation to meet the electrical requirements of the process Excess syngas can be converted to usable compounds such as methanol and acetic acid, for which market demands are known.

Glass, dirt, bricks, rocks, etc., processed by the TDR are heated to a molten state and recovered as a glassy ceramic that is inert and can be used as construction aggregate.

The TDR uses electrical energy to destroy organic materials (90% in MSW) through pyrolysis and gasification. Through a combination of infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) energy emissions from a plasma torch, virtually all organic materials are reduced to basic elements and simple gases. The high-energy, oxygen-starved process converts the solid wastes into a synthetic fuel gas (syngas). This syngas can then be used in a variety of ways. The gas can fire a steam boiler and with the addition of steam turbines, generate electricity. If the ultimate goal is production of steam and electricity, direct incineration of the solid waste is probably the most cost-effective method. Steam and electricity however, are the only products that can be offered by WTE incineration of MSW, and the process leaves a substantial amount of bottom and fly ash that must be disposed of.