For the USTDA, ECODIT prepared the terms of reference for a Feasibility Study (FS) on hazardous waste management in Malaysia. The FS evaluated whether Kualiti Alam (KA), the 15-year hazardous waste management concessionaire selected by the Malaysian government, could use the plasma technology in their Waste Management Centre in Bukit Nanas. Plasma arc torches use electricity to generate extremely high temperatures (from 5,000 to 14,000 oC) that disassociate organics into gases and melt inorganics into lava.During its mission in Malaysia, ECODIT met with KA’s executives who expressed strong interest in plasma and requested TDA’s assistance.  KA’s Waste Management Centre in Bukit Nanas then included a hazardous waste storage facility and a hazardous waste landfill.  A plasma plant would complement the upcoming 50,000 tons per year incinerator and would handle ash from the incinerator and wastes that cannot be incinerated.To prepare the terms of reference, ECODIT reviewed the quantities and types of hazardous wastes generated in Malaysia and assessed current waste management practices.  ECODIT also estimated the capital and O&M costs of KA’s proposed 80,000 tons per year Plasma Pyrolysis and Vitrification Plant. ECODIT recommended that the USTDA finance a FS to assess the commercial viability of the plasma technology for hazardous waste treatment. USTDA signed a $300,000 grant agreement with Kualiti Alam, Malaysia’s private hazardous waste management concessionaire.A consortium of four U.S. companies (Global Plasma System, Westinghouse, SAIC, and Ernst and Young) conducted the FS (under a cost-sharing arrangement) that resulted in a partnership between Global Plasma System and Kualiti Alam.