RE:RE:Question for the board?Westinghouse plasma torches were quoted in the Chalmers University thesis 'Electrification of the heat treatment process for iron ore pelletization', but there’s three reasons why they can’t be considered for torches in Iron pelletization currently.
- As you mentioned, Westinghouse torches were primarily for plasma gasification and the company had issues commercializing them.
- Pyrogenesis has a patent on the use of plasma torches for iron pelletization furnaces.
- Westinghouse Plasma Corporation’ Is no longer a company. They had financial issues and were bought by a Chinese company (Alter NRG), which was then bought by another company. I can find no indication that anything torch production related has continued from any of these businesses in the years since. Moreover, I would argue that Pyrogenesis’ plasma torches are the best in the business and have been gone through continuous improvement for for all these years. Other companies will be playing catch-up while Pyro is always one step ahead.
paperbull wrote:
Ragingbull255 wrote: I"ve been doing a little DD and see that Westinghouse also manufactures the torches.
most of my Westinghouse info comes from my time in the nuke industry, but I believe their plasma gasification niche was primarily centred around burning waste-to-energy and the power industries (trying to make coal powered plants less of a planet killer). Commercialization success not spectacular. Plasco (Ottawa Canada) was another waste for energy plasma gasification project but it failed liftoff as well. Entire thing went for a $1 unless I'm mistaken.
Different plasma torch tech w/ Pyro puts us in a different arena - and has already found commercial success with smelting apps.
We're all still betting heavily on futures here - but it's hard to ignore the + signs. GLTA