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Welcome to Global Resource Corporation
Global Resource Corporation is a Worldwide Petroleum Research, Engineering, Development, and Manufacturing Company that thinks outside the box and is responsible for bringing innovation and new technologies to the petrochemical industries where we offer many proprietary solutions in Enhanced Oil & Energy Recovery Processes.
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Process explained by GRC’s Chief Engineer and why our innovative patent pending technologies are different from any and all others.
To everything there is a frequency that excites its molecules best. Just like the 2450MHz frequency magnetron in your kitchen microwave oven which is specific to water (H2O) molecules, GRC’s hydrocarbon specific frequencies are generated by much higher RF klystrons that actually crack the hydrocarbon chain into its characteristic fuels.
By definition it is not pyrolysis because cracking the hydrocarbon chain is inherent to specific frequencies and has little to do with the amount of heat generated. The process however is done without water and performed in an oxygen starved environment. We call this technology: High-Frequency Attenuating Wave Kinetics or HAWK for short.
There is also no CO2 or CO produced in the process because there is no oxidation other than possibly a miniscule amount that may be pre-existing in the material or minerals processed. GRC’s vacuum environment creates an accelerated pressure thereby assimilating what Mother Nature has done through countless years to make fuels.
The two basic elements offered for all GRC’s applications are insitu and offsitu. We have designed klystron machinery for gasifying hydrocarbons where they exist or in fabricated systems. In-situ meaning processed deep in the ground, rock formations or anywhere naturally occurring and off-situ meaning processed above ground that is mined or material removed from site.
A klystron is a microwave electron tube with velocity modulation that is different from magnetrons. Its uses were privy to military applications for radar jamming before stealth technologies became more dominant in later years. GRC is the first to commercialize this technology and by modifying amplifiers and power supplies to suit our applications, we now possess the technology that will free America from foreign oil imports
Sounds totally cool to me. Industrial strength electronics “modifying amplifiers and power supplies” is something I used to be involved in.
Induction heating has been around for a long time; basically, you’re able to heat steel by placing it in a varying magnetic field. The molecules inside the steel are forced to keep changing their alignment building heat: ‘hysteresis losses’.
I recall something like 50kw and 450kHz. You could turn steel cherry red in about 20 seconds. That’s why I always thought of it as a microwave for steel. It was just an oscillator - water cooled vacuum tubes - and the output coil was really very much like the antenna on a transmitter.
Back to the HAWK, like so many new energy devices it’s going to depend on the cost of energy at any given time and a whole host of other factors, markets, and governments around the world. But it sure sounds cool.
If they are working with microwaves and are claiming that the 2.45 GHz magnetron is tuned to water they are ignorant. A microwave oven is heating water due to dielectric heating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_heating nothing else.
Here is their patent http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20070131591.html
No, unfortunately, just another waste of money.