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Bs PlasmaGasif Recycling Ctr (PGRC) by HGscMENTOR

Please share if you like it. This facility costs your city budget next to nothing to run.

HEADS-UP to my readers: THIS IS the left side OF A 2-PIECE ASSET. (1) This PGRC and (2) the PRISON that supplies labor for the PGRC. BE SURE TO GET THE PRISON AND PLACE IT ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THIS PGRC SO THE FENCE ENCLOSES THEM BOTH. THE OTHER PORTION OF THIS ASSET (the Prison) CAN BE FOUND AT https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=891800233.

Bs PLASMA GASIFICATION & RECYCLING CENTER (PGRC) and accompanying PRISON are a non-polluting, self-sustaining, profit making, replacement for the less efficient Incinerators. They cost your city budget next to nothing to run.

The Plasma Gasification and Recycling Center uses high technology (and free labor from prison inmates) to turn most garbage into reuseable materials – and eliminates the remaining garbage in a nonpolluting fashion. It produces some of its own energy and profit after expenses – which is donated to worthy causes. So the facility costs society nothing while doing it a great service.

WHY PRISON INMATES? Two reasons:
(1) Society Profits: Criminals should pay their own way for food and lodging like all the rest of us.
(2) Prisoners vie for the right to live and work here. Conditions are far better in this prison than the regular prison.

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HOW DOES THE PLASMA-GASIFICATION PROCESS WORK?
SHORT DEFINITION OF THE PROCESS (most of you will only want to read this definition and then skip to the acknowledgements.)
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Waste is brought into the facility, where it is sorted into recyclable materials and materials needing to be eliminated. This sorting is accomplished by inmates of the prison.

Materials that can be recycled are sent, via conveyor belts, to the secondary recycling building, manned by prisoners, where these materials are processed – crushed, melted and reshaped, powdered, etc – into materials construction companies can make use of and sold to them for a profit.

Once only non-useable waste is left, it is passed on to the plasma gasification units of the facility. Once they have treated it, turning most of it into clean air emissions, the remaining slag is passed by conveyor belts to a third recycling building -- again manned by prison inmates at no cost to the city, -- where the slag is turned into construction products and sold for a profit.

The process produces both its own energy, which is reused by the facility, and materials that can be sold for profit, making the facility self-sustaining in electric output and financial retention.

Plasma gasification is a self-sustaining, extreme thermal process using plasma which converts organic matter into a syngas (synthesis gas) which is primarily made up of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. A plasma torch powered by an electric arc, is used to ionize gas and catalyze organic matter into syngas with slag remaining as a byproduct. The Slag is then broken down into metals and granulated byproducts , both of which can be sold as a commodity to many construction facilities. Plasma gasification is used commercially as a form of waste treatment and has been tested for the gasification of Municipal solid waste, biomass, industrial waste, hazardous waste, and solid hydrocarbons, such as coal, oil sands, petcoke and oil shale.

WHY SHOULD YOU USE PLASMA GASIFICATION AND RECYCLING FOR YOUR GARBAGE PROCESSING?
The main advantages of plasma torch technologies for waste treatment are:
**Clean destruction of hazardous waste
**Preventing hazardous waste from reaching landfills
**Recovery of fly ash, bottom ash, and most other particulates, for 95% or better diversion from landfills.
**NO harmful emissions of toxic waste
**Production of vitrified slag which is then recycled (sold) as construction material.
**Processing of organic waste into combustible syngas for electric power and thermal energy
**Production of value-added products (metals) from slag
**Safe means to destroy both medical and many hazardous wastes.
**Gasification with starved combustion and rapid quenching of syngas from elevated temperatures can avoid the production of dioxins and furans that are common to other incinerators
**Air emissions are cleaner than landfills and incinerators.

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ADDITIONAL DETAILED DEFINITION OF THE PROCESS
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This section is for the engineer types out there, giving details of the above Short Definition, so you can skip to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - found after the ****'s below, if you like.

WHAT PROCESS IS USED?

Small plasma torches typically use an inert gas such as argon where larger torches require nitrogen. A strong electric current under high voltage passes between two electrodes as an electric arc. Pressurized inert gas is ionized, passing through the plasma created by the arc. The torch's temperature ranges from 4,000 to 25,000 °F (2,200 to 13,900 °C).[4] The temperature of the plasma reaction determines the structure of the plasma and forming gas.

The waste is heated, melted and finally vaporized. Only at these extreme conditions can molecular dissociation occur by breaking apart molecular bonds. Complex molecules are separated into individual atoms. The resulting elemental components are in a gaseous phase (syngas). Molecular dissociation using plasma is referred to as "plasma pyrolysis.

What waste (feedstock) is treated in Plasma Gasification?

The feedstock for plasma waste treatment is most often municipal solid waste, organic waste, or both. Feedstocks may also include biomedical waste and hazmat materials. Content and consistency of the waste directly impacts performance of a plasma facility. Pre-sorting and recycling useful material before gasification provides consistency. Too much inorganic material such as metal and construction waste increases slag production, which in turn decreases syngas production. However, a benefit is that the slag itself is chemically inert and safe to handle. Shredding waste before entering the main chamber helps to increase syngas production. This creates an efficient transfer of energy which ensures more materials are broken down.

For improved processing, steam is added into the plasma gasification process.

WHAT DOES THE WASTE TURN INTO?

Pure highly calorific synthetic gas consists predominantly of carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H2). Inorganic compounds in the waste stream are not broken down but melted, which includes glass, ceramics, and various metals.

The high temperature and lack of oxygen prevents the formation of many toxic compounds such as furans, dioxins, nitrogen oxides, or sulfur dioxide in the flame itself. However, dioxins are formed during cooling of the syngas.

Metals resulting from plasma pyrolysis can be recovered from the slag and eventually sold as a commodity. Inert slag produced from some processes is granulated and can be used in construction. A portion of the syngas produced feeds on-site turbines, which power the plasma torches and thus support the feed system. This is self-sustaining electric power.

All plasma gasification reactors attempt to recover both gaseous and solid resources.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO MODDERS WHOSE ASSETS WERE INCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCT:
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POPULOUS - for his patient training of a modder newbie, without which I could have put none of this together. He not only taught me how to create the buildings, but to “think” about the processes in the buildings, giving rise to my wish to create logical, cleaner, cheaper upgrades to the original Cities: Skylines buildings. Thank you, Populous, for all your help – and also great thanks to Mrs. P for her willingness to share her husband with newbies to modding.
MR. MAISON – for his wonderful trees. Even prisoners deserve a nice shady place to spend their off hours.