Microwave Process Converts Waste Materials into Oil and Gas

Global Resource Corporation (GRC) (OTC: GBRC.PK) claims that its HAWK 10 high-frequency microwave recycling process can recover oil and gases from oil shale, residual oil, drill cuttings, tar sands oil, contaminated dredge/sediments, tires and  plastics with significantly greater yields and lower costs than are available utilizing existing known technologies. The patent pending process process is claimed to be "the world's first self- sufficient, environmentally friendly, fuel-generating recycler to reduce waste, cut emissions, and save energy by going green."

In a July 2  press release GRC reported that the results of first round of tests on gasifying bituminous coal indicated that methane, other hydrocarbon gases, liquids in the diesel-heating range, and hydrogen could be extracted from the coal. After processing, what was left behind were activated carbon and coke as a residue, all the products having real market value. A second round of testing has commenced to substantiate original results. If further testing confirms the results, GRC could very well be the first company to gasify coal without contributing a major greenhouse negative effect by not using oxygen in the gasification process.

According to the company:

"The microwaves gasify the materials - a process also known as "cracking the hydrocarbon chain"- and then, typically, convert them into 80 percent light combustible gases, and 20 percent oil. The gas is then recycled in a closed-loop system to fuel the next round of material breakdown, without emitting any harmful waste. There is no CO2 or CO produced in the process because there is no oxidation other than possibly a minuscule amount that may be pre-existing in the material or minerals processed."

"The process uses specific frequencies of microwave radiation to extract oils and alternative petroleum products from secondary raw materials, and is expected to dramatically reduce the cost for oil and gas recovery from a variety of unconventional hydrocarbon resources>"

In May GRC announced that Gershow Recycling, one of the world's largest recyclers, has agreed to buy the first Hawk-10 machine and will use it to process auto shredder residue (ASR). The process reduces auto recycling's costs and environmental hazards by breaking down textiles, foams, plastics, rubber, and light metal content extracted from cars, with its microwave technology. When the ASR is exposed to GRC's  microwave frequencies, it is converted by 43% by-weight into gases and/or diesel fuel and heating oil, making fuel from previously unusable materials. For each ton of steel that is recovered, between 500 - 700 pounds of ASR is produced.The HAWK 10 will allow Gershow to scrap more metal from materials that were difficult to separate in the past, allowing them to reduce waste by 65%. GRC says its Hawk-10 can extract enough oil and gas from the ASR to run the Hawk-10 itself and a number of other machines used by Gershow.

"We expect Gershow Recycling to capture a full return on their investment within one year of use, thanks to HAWK 10's incredible efficiency, and its ability to lower expenses and recover profit," says Frank Pringle, CEO of Global Resource Corp.

A recent article entitled, "Giant microwave turns plastic back to oil," in New Scientists Magazine profiled GRC's technology. According to their article:

"GRC's machine is called the Hawk-10. Its smaller incarnations look just like an industrial microwave with bits of machinery attached to it. Larger versions resemble a concrete mixer."

The Department of Energy issued a report on Wednesday, June 20, 2007, identifying 25 companies that possess unconventional fuel production technologies. The report includes a profile on Global Resource and its energy production technologies.

This could well be another company that is more PR than actual content. Their frequent press releases and flowery claims certainly makes one suspect.  However their sale of a, I presume very small, unit to Gershow and the inclusion in New Scientist and in DOE's report give the company some credibility. Certainly if they could live up to their claims they have a technology worth considering.  We will just have to wait to see the results of the Gershow project.

Comments

[calvino]

IREC has been working on microwave tech to improve recovery of conventional refineries. Seems a bit more attainable. Microwaving metal?

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Microwaving metal is fine under certain designs, todays microwaves compared to 30 years ago can take some metal in with your food, I believe it's all about focusing on the correct freqency and the ratio of metal to other materials.

The use for car recycling would be stripping the plastic/rubber coatings off of wires. Good for taking the steel belts out of tire rubber.

Even if they can't scale up to tar sands and oil shale size, specialty uses like cleaning toxic/oil saturated tar ponds like the Sydney tar ponds would be worth considering, and certainly cleaner than incinerating plastic medical waste.

[eric]

They don't say much about energy balance though. For the one case of trash recycling, they claim that they can get enough fuel to power the process, but they don't claim that there will be any leftover. If this is the case, then this process is good for reducing the amount of waste that goes into landfills, but isn't of much help with our energy problems.

[amazingdrx]

As I have pointed out many times, microwave plasma drilling is the best way to recover and refine oil from tar sands and coal. no mining required. The refining powered by the waste heat from the plasma drilling. Wind power aplenty exists in the oil sands region for this purpose. No water is needed with this approach either.

metal is easily removed from trash before using this process. magnetic first, then non-magnetic by applying an AC magnetic field to the trash. the metals become magnetic and are then separated. This industrial process is commercially available.

This sort of plasma process should only be powered with peak wind power electricity that would otherwise not fit into the grid. Then it would be a GHG and energy saving process.

I would still prefer that most trash be biodigested though. Plastics are suitable for plasma recycling though. Mining landfills with plasma drilling might be a very good option though. rather than digging the whole toxic mess up.

[calvino]

There are a few companies looking for a way to refine tar - microwaving, deemulsification, proprietary catalytic cracking... and i would really like to have a crystal ball to see which one will prevail. I did not know any were involved with plasma, though the idea of plasma with renewable inputs is logical. One of the pioneers of plasma has complained of the ingrained attitude of the waste industry as hindering adoption - Startech. Another Connecticut company seems to be running into adoption issues with its medical waste converters - Aduromed. Although the logic of renewables is sound, adoption will leave many of the well heeled dinosaurs, how should I put it, underserved? Anyhow, I am going to take note of gbrc and wish them success.

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Does anyone know how to get the DOE report mentioned above? I can't find it on the DOE website.

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If we are going to get a major portion of our energy from biomass higher atmospheric CO2 will be an advantage. Plants become more efficient.

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[Cyril R.]

Under the condition that this will indeed work out, perhaps it's possible to extract the hydrogen out of coal to produce electricity in a combined cycle unit or hydrogen fuel cell. If the carbon residue is pure enough - in particular devoid of heavy metals - it may be used as biochar to improve agricultural yields. That way, coal can be 'burned' very cleanly and with a very low carbon intensity while increasing agricultural production.

[Cyril R.]

Of course most of the oxidation energy potential in coal is in the carbon, and there is a lot of carbon in coal, so electricity production per unit of coal would drop dramatically.

However, the (potential) market for agrichar is huge and wouldn't easily saturate, so a lot of coal could be processed in this way. And there is a lot of coal left in this world. It would be great if this vast resource could be exploited in a win-win manner.

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Global Resource Corp's HAWK recycler extracts oil and gas in seconds from most everyday objects like tires, plastic cups, as well as from shale, coal, and tar sands. Microwaves tuned to an optimum frequency separate the component parts which can be burned or condensed into liquid fuel, using only a small portion of the energy produced...

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