RE:RE:McGill UniversityGreat work vestmed and ScienceFirst, thanks for this. It's exciting all the work/areas that PyroGenesis is involved in/does.
PyroGenesis is executing with DROSRITE, 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing, Environmental/Waste Destruction, Renewable Natural Gas (RNG - with Pyro Green Gas), torches for iron ore pelletizing/steel/cement, and the collaboration with HPQ Silicon on the QRR/NSiR, and Fumed Silica.
Multiple hirings over the past number of months, PYR has grown from 70 to over 110 employees and PyroGenesis has developed and published over 110 patents (so far).
Kudos to Peter and Team for all the work they do. Like Peter says "We are Building a Dynasty".
Us shareholders are in great hands, the future definitely looks bright!
Long and Strong in PyroGenesis!
ScienceFirst wrote: Again, Prof. Coulombe is well known to PYR. PYR has close ties to McGill Univ..
Investigation and solution to the layering of slag in a DC arc furnace - Project Details - Cognit.ca
Investigation and solution to the layering of slag in a DC arc furnace
Funding Details
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Grant type: Engage Grants Program
- Year: 2013/14
- Total Funding: $25,000
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The ever increasing demand for renewable energy and the growing problem of waste handling calls for atechnology which can tackle these two challenges at once. The Plasma Resource Recovery System (PRRS) technology developed PyroGenesis Canada Inc. (PCI) directly addresses these challenges and offers a huge potential to Canadian economy. The PRRS technology converts municipal solid waste (MSW), industrial waste, and hazardous waste into commercially valuable products for the production of electricity, heat, liquidfuels and chemicals such as ethanol and methanol, aggregates for construction, and metal for recycling. In 2008 alone, it was estimated that 34 millions of tonnes of MSW were generated in Canada (According to StatisticsCanada). This corresponds to an average heat content of 10x10^9 Joule/tonne of MSW wasted every day.Assuming 30% of the total amount of Canadian MSW is recovered in energy using the PRRS technology, thiswould represent 250x10^15 Joules or 3.5% of Canada's current energy needs every year. Achieving suchconversion would reduce our dependency on non-renewable sources of energy such as coal, oil, or natural gas.Furthermore, the waste sector contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) production (10% in Quebec) due to methane emissions from landfill. Using PCI PRRS technology in lieu of land filling could ultimately lead to a significant reduction of GHG. MSW can thus be seen as an easily extractable source of energy and by using it,GHG emissions would be reduced. The PRRS technology is, however, not without challenges. The frequent shutdowns of the equipment lead to a layering of slag in the plasma reactor which in turn leads to arcre-ignition challenges. Recognizing that Prof. Coulombe's team of the Plasma Processing Laboratory at McGill University operate similar (small scale) equipments, PyroGenesis Canada Inc. (PCI) expressed the desire to find solutions in the context of an ENGAGE grant. A R&D Engineer from PyroGenesis Canada Inc. (PCI) will work directly with the team of Prof. Coulombe to conceptualize and test a number of operating conditions and arc diagnostic approaches in an attempt to understand the issues and provide scalable solutions.