The way GIPOplant^TM works is through the use of a highly controlled process that steps the waste materials through stages that very discretely convert the material into Synthetic Natural Gas.  First, the feedstock is put through coarse and medium grinder units, providing for the base slurry material of garbage, sewage and water.  This base slurry material is then drawn through the fine grinder pumps which is fed into the main devolitization reactor through the main pressure pump.  At high pressure, this devolitization reactor mixes the feedstock as it is heated, effectively converting the material to a char slurry, with little or no oxygen content.  This char slurry is then passed through a meterinng device, which injects the feedstock and steam into an entrained flow gasifier which breaks the final carbon bonds.  At the outlet of the gasifier, the gas passes through a separator, which has a cooling jacket that precipitates out any solid materials and are caught in a water bath at the base.  The water bath is cycled to pull any materials from the outlet of the gasifier, which is sent to a settling tank to be treated.  The Syngas and steam then leave the primary separator and enter the secondary separator, which is mainly a Syngas cooler.  This heat exchanger brings the temperature of the gas down for use in the prime energy generator.  The steam that is present in the Syngas is condensed in this cooler, and is distilled water at this point.  The water can then be treated and tested to send to drinking water or ground water recharge.

The Syngas is then introduced to the primary energy generator, the fuel cell.  This generator provides the primary electrical energy conversion, as well as the heat to drive the gasifier and boiler systems required to provide the high pressure steam to the devolitization process and to a steam turbine/generator set that provides additional electrical energy from the plant.

Through the use of economizers throughout the process, very little energy is lost to the environment, causing a temperature rise of only 50^oF above ambient for all expected process air flows.