PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

ReGeneration Energy® offers clean technologies for the following processes:

· Bio fuel production from agricultural operations
· Bio fuel production from aquatic operations
· Bio fuel from forestry waste
· Fuel pellets for domestic and small commercial power generation and heating
· Hydrogen production from macrobiotic processing of food waste
· Power generation and heating from commercial waste
· Power generation and heating from municipal solid waste
· Power generation and heating from sewage and manure waste
· Power generation and heating from existing landfill waste sites
· Clean fuel gas from coal using plasma technology
· Clean fuel gas from coal tar waste using plasma technology
· Liquid fuel equivalent to gasoline, diesel and kerosene from coal using plasma technology
· Clean recovery of metals from existing landfill waste sites using plasma technology
· Wind electrical power generation
· Solar thermal power generation
· Solar photovoltaic power generation
· Hydro electric power generation

 
ReGeneration Energy® provides associated services to assist in the development and successful completion of projects:

· Initial consultation to determine the general requirements and resources
· Feasibility study
· Engineering and financial modeling
· Project financing
· Technology licensing
· Project administration
· Training programs for operations
· Training programs for skilled trades for power generation and distribution

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TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION


1. Plasma gasification:

Of all the technologies offered by ReGeneration Energy®, it is our opinion that plasma gasification is the safest, most cost-effective and least capital-intensive method of producing energy and eliminating hazardous by-products.
Plasma gasification is created by directing a low-velocity, low-pressure stream of ordinary air through an electric arc. The now super-heated non-oxidizing gases expand instantly and are jettisoned from the nozzle at super-sonic velocity into a non-pressurized vessel where the fuel and the ionized plasma flame are combined to produce a raw syngas. Gas scrubbers then remove unwanted elements within the gas stream leaving a clean syngas for combustion in energy production equipment. The resulting syngas exceeds most natural gas supplies in both quality and heating value.

 A.   Benefits:   Plasma gasification is less costly then other gasification processes.    
Plasma gasification is in the same category of efficiency for creating heat as nuclear energy at much lower costs.
Plasma gasification does not create a hazardous waste. Rather, it molecularly binds heavy metals that might be present in the fuel to the minerals that form a hard vitreous glass. Environmental lab analysis verifies the exceedingly low leachability of heavy metals from this vitreous glass.
Plasma gasification allows noxious elements to be scrubbed out of the gas stream prior to combustion resulting in cleaner flue gases.
Plasma gasification IS renewable green energy.
   
 B.   Feedstock:   Coal, coke breeze, tar-sands, oil-shale, peat, municipal waste, all types of biomass, auto shredder residue, white goods (household appliances, computers), paper-mill sludge, commercial carpeting, scrap plastics (shopping bags, thermal set, plastic coated wire, discarded greenhouse plastics), creosoted utility poles & railway cross ties; construction and demolition waste, asphalt shingles. All of these and more can comprise the feedstock used in this energy creation process.
   
C.   Economics:   Return on investment (ROI) depends on the choice of feedstock. Existing power plants can be retrofitted to gasify available materials to replace conventional fuel such as natural gas, bunker 'C', lump or pulverized coal, diesel or biomass. Plasma gasification can achieve higher efficiencies with fewer emissions.
Diesel, spark engines and turbines used as combined heat and electric power generators can all be easily run on the syngas produced from a plasma gasification retrofit or a new stand-alone plant. 

   
2.   "Greening" Energy From Coal Through Plasma Gasification:

A.   Retrofitting existing coal-fired power generating plants:

Existing coal-fired power generating plants can utilize a blend of virgin coal and waste coal to create a cleaner burning syngas while vitrifying the minerals that would otherwise become ash. The resulting eco-friendly, green, glass-like slag can then be used as an aggregate or used to back-fill the mined out abandoned drifts. This process is able to effectively address the huge problem of waste coal that is an environmental misfortune and to dramatically enhance the economy of the surrounding region with an abundance of clean, green energy. Regions surrounding coal rich areas have in recent years suffered from dramatically high unemployment; the new “clean jobs” and the abundance of energy that are created are a tremendous benefit both locally and nationally.
 
B.   Building new stand-alone coal gasification plants:

Plasma gasification can be used to produce large volumes of cleaner burning syngas, compressed gas or liquid fuels from coal. Pipeline, rail or trucks can then transport these fuels.

 
3.   "Greening" Energy From Waste (EFW) Through Plasma Gasification:
 
-   Plasma gasification can access and thus utilize the carbon remaining in the ash.

-   The remaining ash is vitrified into a value-added glass aggregate.

-   Stack emissions are cleaner than from a conventional incineration.

-   Operational costs of the energy from waste plant are reduced by recovering the carbon from the ash, converting it to carbon monoxide to augment the heat from burning the garbage.

-   Eliminates all of the costs associated with handling incinerator ash.

-   Completely eliminates the risk of ground water contamination from leachate run-off.

-   Eliminates the need to build new land fill sites.

-   Ability to excavate the garbage from existing land fill sites and process with plasma gasification enabling a green solution for waste management. Existing land fill sites often tie up otherwise valuable real estate.

-   Remediating land fill sites eliminates the release of methane into the atmosphere.

-   Existing incinerators that have been retrofitted with plasma gasification can accept a broader range of waste materials thus enhancing their revenue. Biomedical waste, commercial and industrial waste are examples of enhancing revenue because they fetch a higher tipping fee per ton over conventional municipal waste.

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ReGeneration Energy® provides other methodologies such as:

Ultra-Fast Thermal Pyrolysis UFTP: This is a versatile, less sophisticated process than plasma that is nevertheless ideally suited for less developed markets. We would recommend pyrolysis when converting certain complex waste materials, such as tires, into practical, usable fuel.

Pyrolysis is ideal for rendering not only scrap tires, but also paper, wood waste, poultry manure and other waste materials into bio oil and carbon char. Carbon char or charcoal, is a very hot and clean burning fuel that can be easily briquetted into cooking fuel. Millions of people around the world rely on charcoal as their primary source of fuel for cooking.  Pyrolysis enables the extraneous biomass from agriculture crops to produce syngas, bio oil and carbon char, when compared with heat energy if biomass is only burned.

The carbon char ‘coal’ briquettes have an immediate positive impact on any country’s remaining endangered forests by eliminating the need to cut trees for making charcoal thus improving the environmental health for all.  
The bio oil rendered from pyrolysis can replace the need to import often more costly petroleum used by diesel generators, boilers and vehicles.
Pyrolysis is a relatively low-cost process to deliver. It enables even economically deprived economies to recover three energy streams (syngas, bio oil and carbon char) from what would otherwise only produce heat if left to the most basic process – burning – which is not an environmentally friendly practice.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports there is approximately one tire discarded per person per year. Pyrolysis enables ReGeneration Energy® to recover one U.S. gallon of bio oil from every twenty-three pounds – the average weight for all passenger car tires – of shredded tire rubber processed.

The pyrolysis process that ReGeneration Energy® would recommend operates on approximately 20% of its own syngas, thus leaving more then 80% of the gas it produces to be sold or used for other purposes. The exhaust gases from the furnace can be used for boiling water to produce space heating, or to produce steam to generate electricity.

Combining the thermal energy as part of the overall energy streams produced from this process is more than 85% efficient. To understand what this means, from the total heat value of any fuel there is a loss in the conversion process to heat. Each step along the conversion path there an additional loss.

The full potential heat energy of our pyrolysis process eliminates several of these conversions steps, which means that within our fast pyrolysis process we produce the previously mentioned energy streams insitu in one operation. The syngas can fuel a gas turbine; the oil a diesel engine; and the carbon char can be utilized as a clean burning replacement for pulverized coal. Because the sulfur is water soluble, it is washed out of the carbon char in the pyrolysis process, making the carbon sulfur free.