NASA-based technology and algae system eliminates CO2 emissions

Solena's biomass feedstock is fed into a plasma reactor, which holds one or more plasma arc torches. These plasma torches heat the biomass to roughly 5,000 degrees Celsius. Solena uses this high temperature plasma field to transform all organic components into a clean and useful synthetic gas (also known as syngas) containing principally carbon monoxide and hydrogen gases.
The syngas from the reactor is cooled and cleaned, which involves the removal of any sulfur compounds, chlorides, mercury, other volatile metals, acid gas and any particulate matter in order to reduce pollution. Once this phase is complete, the syngas is fed into a gas turbine to produce electricity in a combined cycle.
Environmental benefits:
Solena's plasma gasification technology is:

• Fuel flexible offering high availability of base load power
• Highly efficient, consuming less than ¼ of the energy it produces
• Provides lower O&M costs than other "clean" renewable energy processes
• Produces zero CO2 emissions, no toxic fumes, no heavy metals or hazardous ashes
• Energy positive, producing four times more energy than standard combustion technology

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