Key Accomplishments
þ Customer Quality
þ Multiple projects with some of the most recognized, iconic Corporate customers
þ Demonstrated experience with leading DG equipment and partnerships in the emerging clean and renewable fuel industry
þ Industry Recognition
þ EPA CHP Partnership
þ Department of Energy/Oak Ridge Laboratories consulting partner
þ PHE Energy Service
þ 4 Energy Service installations: we own and operate at customers’ site with 5 more planned in the next 15 months US
þ 3 Sustainable communities planned outside US with our biomass, waste-to-energy equipment, power and transportationfuel central plants
PowerHouse Energy
Combining our power generation with sustainable fuels
> Pyromex/PHEA
> Gasification of 23 different waste streams from wood to tires to municipal solid waste
> Adapts to local waste streams as a clean fuel or energy solution
> Strong commercial support by customers
> Ability to use the waste gas for power generation in engines, turbines, boilers and fuel cells, methanol or ethanol renewable fuels or hydrogen, flexible to customer needs
> PHE has executed international license for manufacture, sales and service and will make an equity investment in PHEA/Pyromex for a long-term relationship in the gasification and other energy technologies development
> Contracts in place with very strong sales opportunity and great margins. Typical project sale is ~$50 million with 2-4 year returns.
> Liquid Biofuels
> PHE has executed an engineering cooperation agreement for integration for methanol and ethanol technologies and syn-diesel.
> PHE has executed a cross license agreement to allow PHE to market and sell Biofuel equipment with PHE products.
> Biomass
> Partnered with BioMass Farms for the supply of a biomass, high-density short rotation hardwood tree as feedstock support for the Pyromex
> Cooperative plantation ownership in Pyramid Hills for biomass supply and power generation
Solid Product
- The amount of produced solid residue (and consequently the gas) is strongly dependent on process temperature and reaction time.
- TS Reduction
| T | t | 5min | 10min |
| 1200°C | 62% | 81% | |
| 1400°C | 76% | 87% |
- Beside the amount which leaves the reactor (82% of total solid residue) smaller part of the solids (16%) could be collected from the gas washing tank as well as from the gas cooling pipes (2%).
The Solution
PYROMEX Ultra-High Temperature Gasification
| > Ultra-high temperature |
| gasification is the destructive |
| distillation of organic materials |
| > This distillation process involves |
| the application of intense, |
| indirect thermal energy in the |
| absence of oxygen which |
| reduces the material to a |
| combustible gas and a hazard- |
| free, non-leachable inorganic |
| recyclable material. |
Gas Composition
| Natural | PYROMEX | ||||||
| Element | Gas | Syngas | |||||
| Methane | CH4 | Vol. % | 80 – 88 | 1 – 34 | |||
| Ethane | C2H6 | Vol. % | 2 – 6 | – | |||
| Propane | C3H8 | Vol. % | 0.5 – 2 | – | |||
| Nitrogen | N2 | Vol. % | 2 – 14 | 5 – 10 | |||
| Carbon monoxide | CO | Vol. % | 0.5 – 1 | 20 | – 45 | ||
| Carbon dioxide | CO2 | Vol. % | – | 2 | – 5 | ||
| Hydrogen | H2 | Vol. % | – | 20 | – 60 | ||
| Lower Heating Value | LHV | MJ/Nm3 | 30 – 35 | 15 – 17 | |||
| kcal/Nm3 | 7200-8400 | 3600-4200 | |||||
Energy Utilization
Syngas
Direct Use
Liquefaction
(Under Development)
Gas Engine
Gas Turbine
Dryer
Fuel Cell
Problems+Solutions= Business Opportunity
Worldwide trash is estimated at 7,000,000 tons per day (6Bil population), The US has to deal with 602,739 tons per day of trash, with 40,000 alone in Los Angeles County. Only about 10th of all the US solid trash gets recycled.
Costs of disposal are rising for a ton of municipal waste as the quick and dirty methods give way to a long term solution ($30-$150 US, 30-170 Euro), medical waste and alike are 5-7 times the cost of ordinary trash.
Landfills are closing at the rate of one per day in the US, with difficulty in opening new landfills. Incineration in Europe is being done, causing pollutants in the combustion exhaust and residue, creating new problems.
Incineration and combustion is difficult to get permitted NIMBY, with additional restrictions being placed on what can be land filled.
Fuel costs are rising around the world to generate electricity and provide transportation fuel. Some third world countries have no waste programs at all and use diesel fuel for power generation resulting in costs 2-4 times of developed countries.
Environmental restrictions to reduce the global warming theory reduce or eliminate standard options.Problems+Solutions= Business Opportunity
Worldwide trash is estimated at 7,000,000 tons per day (6Bil population), The US has to deal with 602,739 tons per day of trash, with 40,000 alone in Los Angeles County. Only about 10th of all the US solid trash gets recycled.
Costs of disposal are rising for a ton of municipal waste as the quick and dirty methods give way to a long term solution ($30-$150 US, 30-170 Euro), medical waste and alike are 5-7 times the cost of ordinary trash.
Landfills are closing at the rate of one per day in the US, with difficulty in opening new landfills. Incineration in Europe is being done, causing pollutants in the combustion exhaust and residue, creating new problems.
Incineration and combustion is difficult to get permitted NIMBY, with additional restrictions being placed on what can be land filled.
Fuel costs are rising around the world to generate electricity and provide transportation fuel. Some third world countries have no waste programs at all and use diesel fuel for power generation resulting in costs 2-4 times of developed countries.
Environmental restrictions to reduce the global warming theory reduce or eliminate standard options.
The Solution
PYROMEX Ultra-High Temperature Gasification
| § Ultra-high temperature |
| gasification is the destructive |
| distillation of organic materials |
| § This distillation process involves |
| the application of intense, |
| indirect thermal energy in the |
| absence of oxygen which |
| reduces the material to a |
| combustible gas and a hazard- |
| free, non-leachable inorganic |
| recyclable material. |
Advantages of Solution
- Ecological Recycle of Waste:
– No harmful emissions to the atmosphere (closed loop-no smoke stack)
– No dangerous residues to dispose of after treatment
– Treatment of waste/biomass, incl. hazardous and toxic material
– Meeting the highest environmental regulations
- Efficient:
– Optimum recovery of energy contained in the waste/biomass
– Total conversion of the organic waste content to fuel gas
– Highest energy recovery (power output per ton)
– Simple operation- only a few moving parts
- Economical:
– Lower investment, operating and maintenance costs than landfills
– Valuable renewable energy produced as a product
– Customer oriented modular, adjustable setup with small footprint – Very low energy requirement