Europe Plasma Gasification Market

Growing demand for clean and efficient energy generation technology

Growing environmental concerns and a rise in environmental protection regulations globally have encouraged the power generation industry to adopt clean and eco-friendly energy sources. Furthermore, many economically stable regions are focused on developing renewable energy capacities to reduce their dependence on conventional power generation leading to drive the market share for sustainable technologies.

Clean energy generates electricity without detrimental influences on the environment, such as releasing greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. Plasma gasification is one such technology that offers a more efficient way to eliminate waste feedstock from society while also contributing significantly to the circular green economy. 

Municipal solid trash, rejected plastics and paper, forest biomass waste and various other wastes contain molecules ready to be released into useful syngas such as Hydrogen, aviation fuel, bio-gasoline and others.

For instance, In the regulation EU, COM, the European Commission (EC) has defined the European Union's (EU) energy sector objectives by 2020 (20% less greenhouse gas emissions, at least 20% of the EU's energy resources—renewable energy sources and a 20% decrease in primary energy consumption) (2008). The Member States have to increase the share of renewable energy resources in electricity generation, fuel-saving and waste management to achieve these objectives.

At the same time, the most effective hazardous waste destruction techniques, such as thermal treatment and plasma gasification, are considered. Furthermore, plasma gasification is already used in several nations worldwide, including France, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, etc. Furthermore the European Union has established well-defined waste management regulations, encouraging preventive and mitigating actions to limit the steadily increasing amounts of solid waste leading to create opportunities for plasma gasification in the region.

Increasing adoption of waste to energy plants globally

In the EU-27, overall waste generation increased by 5% (114 million tons) between 2010 and 2018. When major mineral wastes are kept out from the total, it increases by 7% (50.3 million tons). Economic growth is the primary driver of increased waste output, with GDP, the most generally used indicator of economic growth, increasing by 23% between 2010 and 2018. 

The mentioned number implies that the EU-27 is not on track to reach its waste reduction policy goal, encouraging the adoption of waste reduction technologies. Plasma gasification is one such technology used to reduce waste in Europe and convert it to energy to overcome the increasing demand for energy in the region.

Plasma gasification is a successful thermal treatment for waste streams, particularly solid wastes, which provides an upgrade to more typical waste-to-energy (WtE) procedures such as incineration or gasification, resulting in lower pollutant emissions, less landfilled materials, higher conversion efficiencies and better quality producer gas. 

Furthermore, MSW is converted to usable synthesis gas, or syngas, through plasma gasification. The creation of these syngas is what differentiates gasification from incineration. MSW is used as a feedstock for a high-temperature chemical conversion process. Instead of creating only heat and electricity, as incineration does in a waste-to-energy plant, the syngas produced by plasma gasification can be converted into higher-value commercial products, including transportation fuels, chemicals, fertilizers and even natural gas substitutes. Thus in higher demand as compared to incineration processes. 

For instance, Overall energy production from waste (industrial waste, renewable and non-renewable MSW, non-renewable waste) amounted to 40.4 MTOE (million tons of oil equivalent) in 2018, according to Eurostat, with MSW accounting for roughly half of that amount.

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