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The following information about Plasma Gasification, in part, from Department of Energy.

What is Plasma?

Plasma, referred to as the "fourth state of matter," is a very high temperature, highly ionized (electrically charged) gas capable of conducting electrical current. Examples of plasma in nature include lightning and gas at the surface of the sun. Plasma technology has a long history of development and has evolved into a valuable tool for engineers and scientists who need to use very high temperatures for new process applications. Man made plasma is formed by passing an electrical discharge through a gas such as air or oxygen (O₂). The interaction of the gas with the electric arc dissociates the gas into electrons and ions, and causes its temperature to increase significantly, often exceeding 6,000 °C, nearly as hot as the sun’s surface.

show a schematic drawing and a picture, respectively, of a plasma torch used to generate plasma. The plasma torch can be fed with process gases of various chemical composition including air, O₂, nitrogen (N₂), argon and others, allowing the process to be tailored to specific applications.

Plasma Gasification and its Potential Advantages

Numerous companies have been developing plasma gasification technology to treat multiple waste streams including industrial and municipal solid wastes (MSW) over the last decade, and recently has been investigating the application of their plasma technology to gasifiy coal. They believe their technology can be demonstrated to gasify coal in an ambient pressure, plasma-fired reactor that can be retrofitted into existing power plants and/or installed as a new facility, with the following potential benefits over a pulverized coal power and/or conventional gasification plant:

• Greater waste stream feed flexibility which enables coal, coal fines, mining waste, lignite, and other opportunity fuels (e.g., biomass and MSW) to be used as fuel without the need for pulverizing

• Air blown and thus an oxygen plant is not required

• High availability (>90%)

• High conversion (>99%) organic matter to synthesis gas (syngas)

• No tar in syngas; syngas of approximately 140 Btu/scf for air-blown design suitable for syngas combustion turbine operation after gas cleanup

• No char, ash or residual carbon; only producing a glassy slag with beneficial value

• Compliant with EPA New Source emissions standards for nitrogen oxide (NO_X), sulfur oxide (SO_X) particulates, etc.

• Higher thermal efficiency

• Lower carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions

• Low estimated capital and operations and maintenance (O&M) costs

What is Enhanced Oil Recovery?

Enhanced Oil Recovery or "EOR," also referred to as tertiary recovery or tertiary oil recovery, is the 3rd and final stage of oil recovery.

When an oil well is first completed and oil production begins, this is called the primary oil recovery stage. Anywhere from 5% to 15% of the "original oil in place" (OOIP) in the oil well's reservoir is recovered via "natural" reservoir drive, meaning natural forces drive or displace the oil into the production well's well bore.  

The secondary oil recovery stage is where additional production measures are installed wherein anywhere from 10% to 30% of the original oil in place is recovered. 

When the secondary oil recovery stage is complete - and ready for Enhanced Oil Recovery - 55% to 85% of the original oil in place remains. 

The Department of Energy and many industry experts are on record in stating that Enhanced Oil Recovery has the potential to recover up to 60% of the remaining 55% to 85% - which means that Enhanced Oil Recovery has the potential to recover up 300 Billion barrels of oil.  At $100/bbl, Enhanced Oil Recovery represents a $30 Trillion market opportunity (in the U.S.A.).

* EOR Technologies is a new company that is presently being formed by a top EOR engineer and EOR Professor at one of the top-ranked Petroleum Engineering schools and an energy professional with 25 years experience & MBA.

Two recent studies document the explosive growth in the 
Enhanced Oil Recovery market:

1.  Enhanced Oil Recovery Market Valued at $126.02 Billion/year (2012) with Gas EOR and CO2-EOR technologies leading the Growth for the EOR Industry

http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/enhanced-oil-recovery-market-valued-at-12602-billion-gas-co2-leads-growth-sbi-energy-1678405.htm

2.  Global revenues from Enhanced Oil Recovery production now exceed one trillion dollars/year. According to a recent report from energy research publisher SBI, the market for worldwide Enhanced Oil Recovery production will reach $1.3 trillion/year by 2015.

http://www.sbireports.com/about/release.asp?id=2863

The United States will recover more than 300 Billion Barrels of Oil through 
Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technologies according to the Department of Energy.
With oil priced at $100/bbl, EOR represents a $30 Trillion market in the USA 

In the next 10-15 years, 50% of the oil produced in the USA 
will be through Enhanced Oil Recovery technologies. 
And 50% of this amount will be produced by CO2-EOR.

The Enhanced Oil Recovery industry represents a $30 Trillion market, 
(in the USA) with oil priced at $100 per barrel.

Enhanced Oil Recovery technologies would solve our trade deficit problems, create thousands of new jobs, and save the U.S. economy almost $400 billion/year and end our reliance and dependence on foreign oil suppliers. At the same time, sequester billions of tons of Carbon Emissions, as Carbon Dioxide is used in producing previously non-recoverable oil. When an oil well or oil field reaches the end of its normal life, as much as 75% of the "original oil place" is still left underground in the oil wells. That's because recovering previously non-recoverable oil is either too difficult or too expensive, or both. It has been estimated that by recovering just 1% of the previously non-recoverable oil through Enhanced Oil Recovery technologies, that this would produce about 30 billion additional barrels of oil.

Enhanced Oil Recovery 
Through CO2 Injection & Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Some of the following information courtesy of the Department of Energy

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