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Last Updated: Jun 18th, 2007 - 23:45:22 |
Zero-Emissions Recycling Machine Turns Auto Parts to Fuel
By climatebiz.com
Jun 15, 2007
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WEST BERLIN, N.J., June 15, 2007
-- Gershow Recycling has become the first company to put to use a new,
environmentally friendly auto scrap recycling machine that cuts
emissions, and saves energy by recycling what would otherwise become
waste.
The machine, called the HAWK 10, was invented by the Global
Resource Corporation, and is 100 percent emission- and pollutant-free.
The company said the HAWK 10 will reduce landfill waste by
approximately 65%, recover extra metal that companies can turn into
profit, and the process will generate virtually no global
warming-causing emissions.
The system uses high microwave frequencies to convert "autofluff"
-- textiles, foams, plastics, rubber, and light metal content extracted
from cars -- into oil and gas. This process significantly reduces the
amount of waste that Gershow will send to landfills, and it is
conducted in a closed-loop system that eliminates pollutants.
"Imagine running a major industrial process like recycling
with negligible fuel costs and zero emissions," says Kevin Gershowitz,
Executive Vice President of Gershow Recycling. "It seems like the stuff
of science fiction, but it's real, it's proven, and it's available
right now to companies like Gershow who grasp the importance of
fighting global warming."
For each ton of steel that is recovered, between 500 and 700 pounds
of automobile shredder residue (ASR) is produced. ASR contains
plastics, rubber, wood, paper, fabrics, glass, sand, dirt, ferrous and
non-ferrous metal pieces. Currently, most companies dispose of the
residue by sending it to a landfill. In addition to adding potentially
polluting products to landfills, ASR contains many high-priced
materials with significant embodied energy, that are then lost.
The HAWK 10 breaks down the autofluff with a patent-pending
high-frequency microwave technology that gasifies the materials and
converts them into 80 percent light combustible gases, and 20 percent
oil. The gas is then cycled in a closed-loop system to fuel the next
round of material breakdown, without emitting any harmful waste.
Global Research Corp. said it expects the HAWK 10 to pay for itself
with a year of its being put to use by its combination of converting
waste to energy, reducing fees associated with sending materials to
landfills, the capturing of high-value materials and taking advantage
of alternative energy tax credits.
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