The key to a successful business revolves around the ability to make a product for a reasonably portion less than the selling price. It is no different for waste to energy technologies. The two most widely used indicators of this in the waste to energy world is the Mass Balance and the Energy Balance of the process. The Mass Balance defines the amount of final product which can be made as a percentage of the raw materials used to make it. For many waste to energy technologies, theoretical or ideal types of raw materials are used for determining the Mass Balance. Polyflow uses real world waste with all of the fillers, food contaminants, and other inert materials that are mixed into the plastic and rubber material. The Polyflow process produces a very impressive 70% to 83% yield from real world polymer waste.
The Energy Balance defines the amount of energy which goes into the process to make an amount of finished product and then compares it to the energy that exists within the finished product. The failure of technologies like Ethanol fall into the fact that it typically requires more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than the energy you can get out of that same gallon. Since the Polyflow process takes polymers that are destined for a landfill and reduces the distance to haul it AND it produces a very high btu liquid, the energy in the output product is over 15 times the energy required to produce it!!
Both the Mass Balance and the Energy Balance of the Polyflow process prove its ability to be the most profitable waste to energy technology in the world.
