Thermal Cracking has been used for approximately 80 years in the conversion of heavy oils to lighter oils in the petro-chemical industry. In Canada (Alberta Tar Sands) and other countries around the world, Thermal Cracking applies indirect heat to break apart the bonds between molecules in an oxygen free environment.
 
GEM Thermal Cracking Technology does not allow any flame or other direct heat source to contact the waste feedstock so there is no burning.   GEM Thermal Cracking converts the waste feedstock to gas in less than a second in a closed system with no free oxygen.

THERE IS NO COMBUSTION.

GEM technology can best describe its conversion process as that which anyone can witness by dropping a single drop of water onto a very hot skillet (say 400 degrees F).  The water droplet instantly “hisses” and forms a gas (steam), which we can breathe in.

If this same drop of water is dropped on to a much hotter surface then the water converts, not to steam, but into two molecules of hydrogen and one of oxygen and the resultant gas can be combusted. THIS IS THERMAL CRACKING!.

The patented GEM process does exactly the same with its waste feedstock.  GEM Converters accept the fine dry crumb of waste material into the oxygen free chamber and instantly the material is heat penetrated by the heat radiating from very hot stainless steel walls (about 850C) where the waste thermally cracks to gas.  GEM conversion is Without Dioxins and Furans

The conversion from solids to gas takes place in parts of a second and the resultant syngas is cooled rapidly from 1500 to <400F to prevent formation of dioxins and furans.  Dioxins and furans do not have time to form because of this blast cooling as dioxins and furans are formed when the required molecules (plus Chlorine) are available and together at temperatures between 500 and 850F.  Dioxins are not normally found in urban waste and once formed; destruction of Dioxins is very difficult. Test results following the GEM process in UK have shown Dioxin levels to be 1/10 of the European limits.This page is under construction.

                     Artist conceptual drawing of a GEM Modular System