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Ecogene capitalizes on our experience in a wide range of industries to bring our clients innovative solutions to waste management* issues. Whether gases, solids or liquids, industrial waste streams represent potential process inefficiencies. “Potential” because some waste streams have been minimized to the point of diminishing returns. However, there are many where more sustainable and economically advantageous approaches can be implemented. In many instances, the magnitude and environmental impact of waste streams can be reduced, at lower operating, maintenance and compliance costs. This is often due to waste management technologies that did not exist or were not commercialized when the waste producing process was deployed.

While waste minimization has been a legal requirement for large quantity hazardous waste generators since the 1980s, recent emphasis on eliminating GHG emissions has resulted in hydrocarbon fuel combustion becoming by far the greatest target of waste minimization efforts. Hydrocarbon fuel combustion for process heating contributes approximately the same amount of GHG in the US as the entire transportation sector combined. There are tremendous opportunities for industrial deployment of green energy generation and storage. This will allow deployment of technologies using this stored green energy to power alternative process heating solutions.

One example of such technologies is thermal plasma for process heating. Thermal plasmas, generated by electrical current (as opposed to hydrocarbon combustion), totally eliminates hydrocarbons and combustion from the heating process, and also thus eliminates the CO2 combustion waste stream. Order of magnitude higher temperatures can be achieved with thermal plasma, with more uniform and efficient heat transfer compared to hydrocarbon combustion. Ecogene can lead your facility through the process of reducing dependence on fossil fuel combustion, as well as minimizing other waste streams.