An Industrial Anti-pollution Engineering (IAE) Project
'clean incinerations'
  (TERMINATORR[TM] project)

1. Summary

The objective for phase 1 of the TERMINATORR project involves producing a demonstration prototype to destroy the pollution caused by chemicals classified as dioxins, furans and other solid, liquid or gas residues related to industrial and municipal activities (especially discharges from MSW (Municipal Solid Wastes) incinerators).

These contaminants result in an irreversible destruction of our environmental bio-system and will seriously compromise our ability to reproduce in 10 years time.

This 1/8th scale prototype (1 m diameter toroid) was constructed in 7 months at Geneva (Switzerland). The prototype allowed the plasma technology (High Temperature Chemistry), which had already been used successfully in our laboratory studies, to be tested at the true dynamic scale, using molecules that mimic dioxins but which are without dangers for man.

The results allowed us to launch the next phases of the project: phase 2: signature of sales contracts, then phase 3: start of commercial production (partly financed by advance payments payable upon signature).

2. Main characteristics of TERMINATORR

These 8 meter diameter machines can be added to existing or future incinerators (static machines) or used on contaminated urban (MSW), industrial or nuclear sites (mobile machines) for the chemical or petrochemical industries and for the military for destroying and/or reducing stocks of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

An incinerator may require that several Terminatorr machines are attached (about 10% or 20% of its cost). The number of Terminatorr machines is directly proportional to the volume of gas emissions from the incinerator, which is itself proportional to the weight of MSW incinerated, e.g. an incinerator with an annual capacity of 45,000 tons requires 1 Terminatorr.

The size of the potential market means that thousands of machines will have to be manufactured within the next 7 years in Asia, Canada, Europe, Russia and the United States (not to mention developing countries). There are also plans to build 100 clean incinerators in Europe over the same timescale and the GLYCAN group's mission is to be a 'lead contractor' for this project (unit cost 50 to 70 M$).

The potential purchasers are municipalities and local authorities, waste management companies, manufacturing industries and the military.

The plasma technologies (High Temperature Chemistry at 3,000 to 5,000°C) on which the machines are base have already proven their worth in our laboratory trials.

3. General issues

The objective is to provide a rapid response to the issue or atmospheric pollution and contamination caused by industrial activity. Currently, there is no commercially available physico-chemical process that can completely destroy dioxins produced during waste incineration.

The aim of this machine is not to destroy the physical and visible waste, as the existing incinerators can do this, but to treat the waste in the terminal phase of incineration with emission testing to ensure 100 % destruction. The burning temperatures of standard technology incinerators using combustive fuels are around 500 to 1,100°C whilst plasma systems are between 3,000°C and 5,000°C.

Whilst standard combustion methods destroy products containing dioxins, they do not provide complete and satisfactory destruction of the dioxins themselves.

4. The project's main phases

This situation is not an unavoidable fate, commercial solutions exist. The TERMINATORR project has been designed to respond to this challenge.

Using plasma thermal technologies (high temperature chemistry) will allow this goal to be achieved without replacing the existing incinerators nor causing redundancies amongst employees working with the incinerators or in the polluting industries.

Installing a TERMINATORR, with a working temperature at the center that can reach 8,000°C will result in the complete destruction of toxic molecules by transforming dioxins into simple molecules (oxygen, nitrogen, water, free collectable sulfur) and includes the option of being a source for combustible gases such as hydrogen and methane.

Furthermore, existing installations don't need to be modified because TERMINATORR is connected directly to the fume and smoke exits of the incinerator. This means that incineration methods are unchanged and only the emissions are monitored and transformed into benign molecules.

The TERMINATORR technologies can also be applied in the military sector to eliminate stocks of weapons of mass destruction.

The TERMINATORR can also be applied in the chemical and petrochemical industry.

6. Swiss contact:
 
Glycan Group:
GLYCAN PHARMA Switzerland S.A.
Christian Daniel Assoun
Tel. :+41(0)22 700 58 73
Fax: +41 (0)22 700 58 75
Natel mobile +41(0)79 213 77 18
e-mail:glycanpharma@bluewin.ch
                         cdassoun@glycangroup.com

Note: TERMINATORR is derived from the verb Terminer and Torr (a unit of pressure in physics)

The TERMINATORR prototype: the 1 m diameter prototype will allow contracts to be signed to supply 8 meter diameter machines to the United States or Europe, mainly in Italy where already the agencies that manage waste want the exclusive rights of use to these machines.

In the United States, commercialization is already advanced with the military authorities who will certify the machines in their military version. Consequently, civil approvals will be rapidly obtained from the most important environmental protection agencies in the USA (including the EPA).

 

5. Key points in Christian Assoun's CV

Dr. Christian Daniel Assoun, President and Chief Scientific Officer. French nationality, but a long-time resident of Spain, Dr. Assoun is the founder and President of GLYCANMETAL,and GLYCAN PHARMA Switzerland S.A., as well as the Inventor of the TERMINATORR system.

Dr. Assoun holds a Ph.D. in Atomic Spectroscopy (University of Paris). His professional background includes research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France’s principal Government scientific research organization, and the United States, N.A.S.A. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, where he was the author of Plasmas for Extraterrestrial Resources and Applied Technologies, N.A.S.A. Memorandum N° 354381020.

Dr. Assoun will supervise all scientific undertakings related to TERMINATORR and, within this context, will provide guidelines that are acceptable to the other team members and the Investor, for progressing the TERMINATORR project.

The GLYCAN group

The aim of this project is to contribute to constructing clean incinerators and to make municipalities and public authorities aware of the pollution risks and the irreversible degradation of the environment.

GLYCAN group was created several years ago. It has developed several profitable business activities (10 years of clinical analyses in Spain).

Glycan Group has been developing the same activity in Switzerland since January 2006. It is also developing plasma machines for 2 US clients that use the Terminatorr technology to extract precious metals from mineral deposits that are very difficult to separate.

 

Appendix: General information

TERMINATORR is a project with an international scale that aims at implementing plasma technology (high temperature chemistry) to destroy very dangerous contaminants classified as dioxins, furans and other molecules that are threats to biological viability and which are slowly or violently destroying our eco-bio systems.

Spermatogenesis (sperm production) has considerably reduced during recent times and some reliable sources suggest that there is a 30 % reduction in man's ability to reproduce normally.

It has been epidemiologically shown that the dioxins, a group of 73 different chemicals, and 100 chemicals that promote dioxin formation affect our genetic material (DNA) and cause irreversible, carcinogenic and mutagenic reactions.

Consequently, human reproduction in ten years time will be considerably compromised if measures are not adopted in the short term. Furthermore, the weakening of our immune system is a collateral effect of the pathological action of dioxins, furans and other toxic molecules that are currently produced by human activity. Urban waste incinerators produce large amounts of dioxins, furans, etc. and often in an uncontrolled way that does not respect the current standard of 1-4 ng of dioxins / m3. In some instances, this limit is exceeded 10 or 50 times.

In practice, we do not really know the actual dioxin emissions from incinerators because dioxin detection and measuring equipment is very expensive (about 400,000 to 500,000 $). This explains why most municipal incinerators do not monitor dioxin emissions. Additionally, incinerators are often quite near residential areas and air currents will displace the fumes and the dioxins from them over tens of kilometers and thereby quietly effect the habitants and subject them to considerable health risks. Whilst the risks were initially unavoidable and undetectable, they can be biologically confirmed in the short and medium term: cancers, allergies, foetal malformations, sleep and neurological behavior disorders, reduced walking distances, reflex activity lesions and memory effects.

Another problem is that molecules that are created become cooler around the walls and form stable molecules called dioxin promoters. It seems that these dioxin promoters are even more dangerous than the basic dioxins produced by the incinerator.

Despite all the recycling programs that have been implemented and which have variable results depending on the country (10 - 18 % at most), it is technologically, scientifically and chemically obvious that the thousands of incinerators in Europe and on earth must continue to eliminate the waste from our activities and result in a considerable loss of our biological integrity (significant reduction in immunity and development of multiple pathological conditions).