Fort Myers, FL: Bradam Group LLC announced December 29 that it had completed the acquisition of assets of the former Ontario company Elementa Group Inc., including the company's groundbreaking, environmentally friendly Steam Reforming Process (SRP) and has secured patents for the SRP in 24 countries.
The Bradam SRP uses chemical reduction reactions to reform (break down) non-recyclable everyday waste into clean energy and other products without the combustion oxidation typical of incineration. Bradam Group is proceeding with the commercialization of the SRP in North America and internationally.
It is an “environmental and economic game-changer," says Robert Willes, CTO of Bradam Group. "The Steam Reforming Process changes the way we dispose of everyday non-recyclable waste by reforming the carbonaceous and organic materials, present in municipal solid waste, industrial waste and bio-solids, into Synthesis gas (Syngas). The Syngas provides fuel for production of electricity and can be easily further refined to produce hydrogen and Generation II 'drop in' diesel and jet fuel."
The innovative technology is a combustion-free chemical reduction process with no oxidation yielding a high BTU value syngas, making it a radical departure from competing incineration and combustion processes currently on the market. The process has been rigorously tested and vetted by third party experts at its pilot plant project in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, the company says. Using this process, the company believes 80% of residential and commercial waste that traditionally ends up in landfills can be converted to energy, virtually eliminating CO2 and CH4 (methane) emissions.
In addition to making a positive environmental impact, a 200,000 ton-per-year Clean Energy Plant will produce enough electricity to supply power to over 20,000 homes, Bradam Group says, while creating hundreds of jobs locally and extending the life of existing landfills.
Elementa Group, which had developed the technology and operated a pilot plant in Sault Ste. Marie from 2007-2011, was declared insolvent and put into receivership at the end of 2015, the local paper Soo Today reported December 29 of that year.