Ultimate Thermal Organics Converter emissions are unprecedentedly low despite being fuelled by waste and residual organics such as garbage, hazardous materials, food processing wastes, and diseased biomass.
Third Party Emission Tests
UTOC is a next generation contributor to a healthy planet.
Ultimate Thermal Organics Converter emissions are unprecedentedly low.
This is an operating stack with no visible smoke. Not seeing any smoke is visually impressive, especially when you know the material being burned emits thick black smoke. But there are the invisible emissions of which we must also take care.
Nitrogen oxides (NOx) are invisible emissions that are a typical result of combustion. Anything that burns requires oxygen, but if there is excess oxygen, NOx forms. Because UTOC limits the incoming oxygen, the potential for NOx is small, and is typically less than 10% that from an incinerator and well below environmental emission limits.
Third-party engineering firms and the local university tested for NOx and numerous other potential emissions from the UTOC processing highly toxic railroad ties as well as meat and bone meal. Rail ties, if you don't know, are treated with creosote which is composed of more than 300 chemicals, many of them toxic and persistent. These firms have generated hundreds of pages of reports indicating that emissions are below Canadian emission control standards without requiring emission controls you typically see on incinerators. They also show the ash is completely sterile, devoid of any organic material.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency tested deadstock and offal to determine that UTOC successfully destroys all pathogens. I've also processed many other materials including plastic, sewage sludge and municipal solid waste without any visible emissions.
Third-party engineering firms and the local university tested for NOx and numerous other potential emissions from the UTOC processing highly toxic railroad ties as well as meat and bone meal. Rail ties, if you don't know, are treated with creosote which is composed of more than 300 chemicals, many of them toxic and persistent. These firms have generated hundreds of pages of reports indicating that emissions are below Canadian emission control standards without requiring emission controls you typically see on incinerators. They also show the ash is completely sterile, devoid of any organic material.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency tested deadstock and offal to determine that UTOC successfully destroys all pathogens. I've also processed many other materials including plastic, sewage sludge and municipal solid waste without any visible emissions.
UTOC Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions
It outputs less than 50% the CO2 equivalent emissions from landfills when processing the equivalent Municipal Solid Waste from collection vehicles.
The quiet operation UTOC has a small footprint and lowest CAPEX and O&M cost of thermal processing technologies; the cleanest producer of electricity from garbage.
Manitoba Conservation and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) have been involved since the inception of UTOC technology development.
after 2 weeks of stack testing..
“…little potential for health or environmental impacts…”
"... stack tests showed 0% carbon monoxide and 33.15 ppm nitrogen oxides; as NO2 (Less than 16% of the Manitoba Government limit)."
from rail tie feedstock and ash testing.
“…hydrocarbons, coal tar type compounds, and pentachlorophenol in the tie sample and essentially nothing in the ash sample…”
We tested ash from 70 kg mature chicken carcasses, 200 kg of market weight hog carcasses, 600 kg of “cooked” biological materials (including animal carcasses) from the sterilizing cooker located at the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health laboratory.
“There was NO protein detected”