PEM™ systems provide a substantial improvement in the management of materials that have historically been regulated under US EPA’s RCRA regulations. Our systems represent a significant enhancement to environmental stewardship, the opportunity to extract value rather than simple disposal, flexibility to support a wide range of applications, and all at a competitive cost to current technologies and methods. PEM™ systems use a special, highly controlled plasma heating source in a unique gasification system to fundamentally alter feedstock materials, converting the organic portion into a useful hydrogen-rich syngas and the inorganic portion into a solid, non-leachable, glass-like material. In the PEM™ process the feedstock is exposed to extremely high temperatures, breaking the chemical bonds of the organic components, and reforming them with steam into the hydrogen-rich syngas. The inorganic components are either converted chemically into an oxide that becomes incorporated into the glass-like material in a process called vitrification or the more noble metals are melted and collect as a separate layer beneath the glass bath.

The extremely clean, hydrogen-rich syngas can be used in any number of advantageous ways. It can be used in place of, or combined with, natural gas, propane or other fuels to generate electricity or to fire a boiler, or the syngas can be converted to high purity hydrogen. The hydrogen is extremely clean and suitable for use as a raw material in fuel cells, or for many other demanding industrial applications.