Startech sells three more plasma converters to Puerto Rico

Startech Environmental Corporation (BULLETIN BOARD: STHK) announced today that it has signed a contract to sell three of its Plasma Converter Systems™ to a recycling center in Puerto Rico.

The company says it has received a 10% cash down-payment from EnviroSafe Industrial Services Corporation of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The combined capacity of approximately 50,000 pounds per day for the new EnviroSafe recycling facility in Puerto Rico is scheduled for start-up in 2008.

The EnviroSafe contract was coordinated by the PlasmaTech Caribbean Corporation, Startech's distributor for Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.

Startech designs and sells proprietary plasma processing equipment that safely and economically destroys wastes, no matter how hazardous or lethal, and turns most into useful and valuable products, the company says.

The system uses 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 and a synthetic gas, Startech claims.

Among the commercial uses for the syngas is for use to produce "green electrical power," Gas-To-Liquid (GTL) fuels such as ethanol, synthetic diesel fuel and other higher alcohol alternative fuels.

Hydrogen, for use and sale, can also be separated and recovered from the PCG synthesis gas mixture.

The company announced previous sales in January to Panama (see Plasma waste converters to be installed in City of David, Panama.)

For more details on how plasma systems help convert waste into energy and other resources, see the Cleantech Group's How to up your biodiesel production: torch it.

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