Value Recovery, Inc. is a R&D company that licenses its proprietary technology to end users.

 

The company has been awarded two US patents in the general area of reactive separations for converting harmful reactive chemicals into either non-hazardous byproducts or into saleable chemicals. Examples include the conversion of water soluble phenols, cyanide and acrylates to useful products.  A third patent is pending.

 

The most important application of this chemical destruction technology is the removal of methyl bromide from fumigation vent streams. Methyl bromide is a known ozone depleter and its emissions are one of the objects of interest of the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty meant to save the ozone layer located in earth's upper atmosphere. The ozone layer acts like a protective shield that filters ultra violet (UV) light from the sun that can cause increased incidences of skin cancer.  Value Recovery offers scrubbing systems to destroy methyl bromide and other harmful chemicals in fumigation vent streams and thus prevent them from hurting the ozone layer. 

 

In addtion, when the technology is used with good fumigant containment systems, the technology protects bystanders in close proximity to fumigations from the toxic effects of fumigants.

 

The company also performs R&D in the area of organic synthesis (new process routes).

 

Peter J. Joyce

President