Date: May 1, 2006
Source: PR Newswire
Startech Environmental Corporation (OTC: STHK), a fully reporting company, announced today that it has successfully completed Phase One of the two-phase DOE Program that has as its focus the production of Plasma Converted Gas (PCG) from processing coal and municipal solid waste in the Plasma Converter for the production of hydrogen. Phase Two, now in progress, is focused on the separation of hydrogen from the PCG synthesis gas mixture using the Company's StarCell(TM) system.
Department of Energy news releases said that the DOE's goal is, "By 2015, have ready to operate a zero emissions, high-efficiency coal production power plant that will produce hydrogen from coal along with electricity." And, "Clean coal technology describes a new generation of energy processes that sharply reduce air emissions and other pollutants compared to older coal-burning systems."
Joseph F. Longo, president of Startech, said, "Hydrogen we produce from coal and wastes using Startech's system can be used to produce electricity without pollution or greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide. Hydrogen is the most pristine of all fuels and when it is used for electrical power what results is just plain water."
About Startech -- an environment and energy company
Startech Environmental is an environment and energy industry company engaged in the production and sale of its innovative, proprietary plasma processing equipment known as the Plasma Converter System(TM). The Plasma Converter System safely and economically destroys wastes, no matter how hazardous or lethal, and turns them into useful and valuable products. In doing so, the System protects the environment and helps to improve the public health and safety. The System achieves closed-loop elemental recycling to safely and irreversibly destroy Municipal Solid Waste, organics and inorganics, solids, liquids and gases, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, industrial by-products and also items such as "e-waste," medical waste, chemical industry waste and other specialty wastes while converting many of them into useful commodity products that can include metals and a synthesis-gas called Plasma Converted Gas (PCG)(TM). Among the many commercial uses for PCG, it can, for example, be used to produce "green power," alcohol fuels and also hydrogen for sale.
The Startech Plasma Converter is essentially a manufacturing system producing commodity products from feedstocks that were previously regarded as wastes. Startech regards all wastes, hazardous and non-hazardous, as valuable renewable resources.
For further information, please visit www.startech.net or contact Steve Landa at (888) 807-9443, (203) 762-2499 x148 or sales@startech.net.
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