Having been tested in laboratory experiments and at a beta site the new technology was recognized as “green energy” by the SGS authorities and was registered as a recognized patent. Certain outstanding features of the technological process are contemplated bellow:

System and Process Description

Goal: The system provides for an environment-friendly disposal of organic waste, employing an innovative process converting organic material into usable fuels.

1. Inflows and Outflows

   • Raw Material: The system is exceptionally flexible, capable of treating variable mixtures of a wide range of organic materials, including municipal, farm and industrial organic dry waste and sludge.
   • Leading Usable Output: The process renders syngas and diesel-oil.
   • By-products: Solid materials containing nitrous, sulphuric and, sometime, phosphoric compounds, captured from the acid gases.
   • Solid Waste: Residual ash contains minimal quantities of solids like lead, mercury, copper etc.. Concentrations are adjustable, not to exceed accepted standards in the Plant vicinity.
   • Gas Emission: Vapour emitted into the atmosphere, consisting of inert nitrogen (N₂), water, carbon dioxide and methane, is free of acid gases (Nitrous and Sulfuric Oxides).

2. The Process: Pretreatment:

   • Organic material is pre-treated according to content, texture, and source. For example, tires undergo shredding; solid municipal waste is set free of glass, metallic objects, etc; sludge is being dehydrated.
   • High Temperature Reactor: Treated organic waste and (optionally) lignite is conveyed into a high temperature reactor. The output consists of Cox and raw material of light fraction diesel-oil. That raw material is fed into a hydrogenation facility. Cox is directed to a ball mill and then a gasifying facility.
   • Hydro Generator: Breaking up long chains into small simple molecules, and separating sulphuric, nitrous and other by products from the useable output, this facility produces diesel-oil. Characterized by low freezing point and low viscosity, diesel-oil is piped or tank-transferred to a distillery and other end customers.
   • Gasifying Facility: Fine grounded Cox is directed to this fluid-bed generator converting Cox into syngases. Out-flowing gases are directed to scrubbers and compressors.
   • Scrubbers and Compressors and Power Supplier: Methane and hydrogen gases processed by these facilities provide the fuel for a gas turbine which, assisted by heat converters, is the system's only power supplier. Surplus gas is delivered to end customers.

Disposing organic solid waste or sludge by incinerating is a leading procedure in the disposal of municipal and agricultural garbage.

Europe, the United-States as well as developing countries use large amounts of energy in order to treat the excess amounts of all sorts of waste. The authorities learned out that the traditional methods of garbage treatment are not suitable any more for the huge amounts of the waste in the modern world. At the same time some technologies of extracting energy from waste are researched intensively, funded by governments, particularly in USA. But these technologies are very inefficient thus not being feasible from an economic point of view.

The great advantage of the new technology is its ability to produce diesel-oil or syngas out of ordinary waste and in a very effective and cheap procedure.

A facility for the production of electricity has been constructed in Moldova in 2004. The project produces 1 Megawatt of electricity per hour and is operating smoothly producing electricity for neighboring end-customers. After 3 years of production the project is on the verge of breaking even.

The feasibility of a plant relying on this technology can be manifested, in principle, through plans for a much larger project, up to 20 megawatt per hour.

A major problem regarding large plants concerns the need to get enough amounts of raw material, for instance, 400 tons per day of municipal waste (60% dry material) or 1,200 tons per day of sewage sludge (20%).

The project will have two main sources of income: Receipts from the sales of Energy and receipts from municipalities due to the disposal of their ordinary waste. For them this will be an alternative to costly delivery and disposal at distant sites.

Cavalcom is set to negotiate the construction of projects in several countries, including Israel, Jordan, The Palestinian Authority, India, Kazakhstan etc. for the production of syngas or diesel-oil.