20 Advantages of the IP&E Plasma System
1. How much does a system from IP&E cost?
The price of an IP&E system and its operating costs are significantly less expensive than many of the present systems for eliminating waste.
2. What kind of waste can an IP&E system handle?
Hazardous and non-hazardous wastes — solids, liquids, sludge’s and gases — can be safely and economically processed without producing harmful, illegal or noxious emission, effluents or residues.
3. How much is waste reduced in volume by the process of an IP&E system?
Volumetric waste reduction for most solid wastes is approximately 300 to 1.
4. How safe is the IP&E system?
The IP&E system’s environmental performance is far safer than the United States EPA standards and regulations.
5. Does the IP&E system work with the existing power grid?
The IP&E system directly couples to co-generation, power systems and the primary power grid.
6. Why is IP&E better than what we currently have in place?
The IP&E system will improve public health and safety, and will not pollute the environment like incinerators and landfills.
7. Is there any value to the waste produced by IP&E?
The end product depends on what goes in. For many wastes, the IP&E system produces commodity products for sale or use, such as metals and clean synthesis gas.
8. What are the liability advantages of using IP&E for waste disposal?
The IP&E system reduces the cost and risk to the corporation, agency and organizational entity from the “perpetual liability” that accompanies hazardous waste generation, treatment, storage, disposal, and transportation.
9. What are some of the possibilities for how the IP&E system can be configured?
The IP&E systems can be produced in various configurations that allow them to be used aboard ships for marine applications, in a truck for mobile applications and in stationary configurations ranging in capacity measured from hundreds of pounds per hour to hundreds of tons per day.
10. Can the IP&E system be turned on as needed or does it have to be run constantly?
The IP&E system can be operated intermittently a few hours a day as needed or around the clock without many of the difficulties and costs that arise in other technologies when operated in the same manner.
11. How much electricity can the IP&E system produce?
When processing high-energy content waste such as plastics, solvents, and tires, a unit of material that requires one kilowatt of power to process will produce enough PCG and recoverable heat to produce up to 2.5 kilowatts of electrical power.
12. Does IP&E require any catalysts?
Unlike other technologies, no catalysts are required by the IP&E system.
13. Can IP&E process radioactive waste?
The IP&E system can process low level radioactive waste. Although the system does not reduce radioactivity, it can reduce its volume by factors of hundreds to one.
14. Can IP&E totally get rid of toxic waste?
The IP&E system can achieve “total and irreversible destruction” of hazardous and toxic compounds and wastes, lethal viruses, bacteria and prions.
15. Are there any exemptions available for using IP&E’s system?
Resource Conservation Recovery Act recycling exemptions may be available where the resultant products produced are being used in an industrial process or to make a product.
16. What size machine is possible from IP&E?
IPE’s system can be scaled to virtually any size or feedstock arrangement.
17. How safe is the IP&E system?
The Converter is electrically driven, unlike incinerators, its operation can be stopped immediately by shutting off the electricity, and it is therefore controllable and “inherently safe.”
18. Can an IP&E system be used on-site?
The IP&E system can do on-site remediation of toxic “hot spots” and landfills. IP&E can return those properties to the market for sale in a safe and habitable condition. Landfills contain resources that can be safely processed and recovered as commodity products by the IP&E Converter.
19. What can the IP&E Converter process at the same time?
The Converter can process solids, liquids, and gases all at the same time.
20. Why do you need a system from IP&E?
A cleaner and more efficient World benefits everyone.
