Company Overview
Global Resource Corporation (OTC.PK: GBRC)
Global Resource Corporation, is a developer of a patent-pending microwave technology and machinery that extracts oil and petroleum products from shale deposits, tar sands, bituminous coal and processed materials such as tires and plastics as well as dredged soil from harbors and river bottoms. Its process produces significantly greater yields and lower costs than are available using existing technologies. The process takes place in a vacuum environment that is emission-free, efficient and cost-effective tool for cleaning environmental wastes and toxic materials.
Global Resource Corporation develops microwave technologies to be used in the waste to fuel sector as well as the oil industry’s demand for more efficient extraction, exploration, transportation and refining segments. The company has a unique microwave process that encompasses an oxygen starved environment and a very low level of energy input versus the resulting energy derived. The process is entirely emission free and paves the way for a complete environmentally clean technology that increases the production of useable fuels world wide.
The company has identified several opportunities in the waste and recycling sectors that involve the conversion of many forms of waste to oil and gas. The initial feedstock of choice is tires, municipal solid waste and tanker sludge. All three have been identified as environmental hazards with few recovery options until the development of our technology. To date, their technology has shown enormous amounts of recapture through the entire microwave process, including the benefits of the residual product, Carbon Ash. The result of their process is to maintain a ratio of energy in to energy out of 1 to 15.
In addition, Global Resource has identified the needs and opportunities within the oil industry for exploration, production, transportation, storage and upgrading systems. They have successfully tested several materials in their lab to address the extraction and upgrading possibilities for Tar Sands, Oil shale, heavy oils, coal and drill waste among others. Each of these applications will be approached with the same intent to commercialize and deploy the technology with those companies that have the greatest incentive to make use of their technology , thereby evolving a whole new world of recapture, extraction and upgrading systems.
Global Resource recognizes that most of the opportunities that exist in these large scale operations will require partnerships and/or synergistic relationships. Global Resource believes these relationships will allow entrance in to a multi-billion dollar industry quickly and efficiently by partnering their technology with companies motivated to make the monumental leap to the next generation of waste to fuel technology. The company has identified and will continue to develop these large scale partnerships in an attempt to develop all phases of recovery applications in the renewable energy sector.
Global Resource has also received recognition from:
Popular Science, December 2007. Global Resource was included in their list of 100 Best Innovations of the Year.
Time Magazine, November 12, 2007. Global Resource was included in their list of Best Inventions of 2007.
THE PROCESS
The process requires approved materials to be in a shredded state or such materials reduced in size no larger than 3 inch square pieces. The system uses a hopper or includes an entry hopper where customer’s front-end loader or metered conveyor belt feed system to load the process supplies material to the hopper. The entry feed system hopper/elevator feeds the material to a double gate assembly that actuates to move the material to an intermediate position whereby a vacuum line provision removes the oxygen air from the material in-feed chamber of the assembly. The lower gate then actuates to position the material and dumps it directly into the reactor entry of the in-feed auger screw feeding the main reactor. The internal reactor environment is held constant at 508 torr (mm of Hg) (20 inches of Mercury vacuum throughout). Vacuum pressure will lower as gases are produced. The material passes into the microwave reactor chamber and onto the internal conveyor which moves the material at variable speed under each of the microwave units while through two microwave emitters positioned right angle of the continuous motion product and bombarding the material with hydrocarbon-specific microwaves. This microwave bombardment is absorbed into the material and any hydrocarbons contained in the material are gasified while the system vacuum system pump acts to extract the expanding gas from the reactor chamber. The heavier gases will condense and will be piped directly to a liquid storage tank. The lighter gases will remain a burnable gas and be piped to a gas storage tank where they can be utilized to generate electricity with a turbine generator. The remaining residual materials are conveyed out of the reactor chamber through a reverse process similar to the in-feed process whereby the vacuum is released and the char slag particulate is discharged onto a takeaway conveyor.
