Startech Environmental Receives Its Hydrogen Engine for Carbonless Electric Power Demonstrations

Startech Hydrogen from Processing Waste to Produce Stationary Carbonless Electrical Power

WILTON, Conn., Aug. 13 -- Startech Environmental Corp. (BULLETIN BOARD: STHK) , a fully reporting, internationally recognized Award-winning Environment and Energy company, announced that it has received its hydrogen engine that is being readied for demonstrations. Startech Hydrogen, derived from processing waste in the Startech Plasma Converter(TM), will be used as a pristine fuel to power the hydrogen-engine to produce electricity.

Joseph F. Longo, Startech's president, said, "The Company plans to produce and market its Carbonless Power System for 'Green Electricity' in stationary facilities. We think it is important to appreciate the fact that the Hydrogen-engine is a combination of the engine and the electric generator in one package. It is not a fuel cell; it is a robust internal-combustion reciprocal-engine very much like the well-proven engine in your vehicle.

"While developments of hydrogen-powered vehicles are still progressing, there is a compelling need and desire from our customers for a parallel initiative to bring clean, hydrogen-fueled, stationary-electrical-power to the market.

"Paradoxically, hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, but it is not readily available on earth, and has to be produced by chemical-industry manufacturing systems. Hydrogen is also an important ingredient in many commercial and industrial products. Our Plasma Converter System (PCS)(TM), in processing most wastes, produces a synthesis gas that we named Plasma Converted Gas (PCG)(TM). With many wastes, the hydrogen in the PCG, can be separated as a pristine fuel within the Carbonless Power System. This Startech Hydrogen can fuel engine-generators to produce 'Green Electricity.'

"From wastes, the Plasma Converter can actually be the source of Startech Hydrogen on site and in-house for our customers.

"When hydrogen, as a fuel, combines with air, the principal resulting product is H2O, water. No carbon dioxide (CO2) results in the combustion process since there are no carbons in hydrogen. With its roots in the Kyoto Protocol, the burgeoning Carbon-Credit market and its focus on 'low-carbon-footprints,' means that this 'green' stationary electrical power will not be merely a 'low-carbon-footprint;' it will be a 'No-Carbon-Footprint.'

"Last Summer, the Company successfully completed a three-year contract for the US Department of Energy, in its Hydrogen Initiative, in a comprehensive program demonstrating the production of hydrogen from processing wastes in the Plasma Converter followed by our StarCell (TM)system. StarCell is the Company's proprietary membrane-technology system that separates the hydrogen from the PCG synthesis gas produced by the Plasma Converter System."

About Startech -- The Environment and Energy Company

Startech is the internationally recognized, Award-winning Environment and Energy Industry Company engaged in the production and sale of its innovative, proprietary plasma processing equipment known as the Plasma Converter System(TM).

The Plasma Converter System safely and economically destroys wastes, no matter how hazardous or lethal, and turns most into useful and valuable products. In doing so, the System protects the environment and helps to improve the Public Health and Safety. The System achieves closed-loop elemental recycling to safely and irreversibly destroy Municipal Solid Waste, organics and inorganics, solids, liquids and gases, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, industrial by-products and also items such as "e-waste," medical waste, chemical industry waste and other specialty wastes, while converting many of them into useful commodity products that can include metals and a synthesis-gas called Plasma Converted Gas (PCG)(TM).

Among the many commercial uses for PCG, is its use to produce "Carbonless Power," Gas-To-Liquid (GTL) fuels such as ethanol, synthetic diesel fuel and other higher alcohol "alternative" fuels. Hydrogen, for use and sale, can also be separated and recovered from the PCG synthesis gas mixture.

The Startech Plasma Converter is essentially a manufacturing system producing valuable commodity products from feedstock-materials that were previously regarded as wastes.

Startech regards all wastes, hazardous and non-hazardous, as valuable renewable resources and as feedstocks.

For further information, please visit http://www.startech.net/ or contact Steve Landa at (888) 807-9443, (203) 762-2499 EXT 7 or sales@startech.net.