Patent ID: 8156876

Claim:
A method of reducing the amount of coal required by a coal fired power plant, comprising the steps of: combusting a plurality of coal in a combustion chamber of the existing coal fired power plant; processing waste in a plasma reactor; transmitting a plurality of gaseous emissions comprising at least a first component of sensible heat from an afterburner of the plasma reactor to the combustion chamber of the existing coal fired power plant and supplementing the thermal energy of the combustion chamber with the thermal energy contained in the plurality of gaseous emissions; and controlling the amount of gaseous emissions output from the afterburner and input into the combustion chamber with a control system, wherein the control system provides a control module having logic enabled to monitor the induction of gaseous emissions output from the afterburner including at least the temperature of the gaseous emissions and control at least a volume of the gaseous emissions output from the afterburner and input into the combustion chamber.