CCT - Converted Carbon Technologies

Unique BioSilo™ Process


CCT’s BioSilo™ is essentially a hybrid of open pond systems and enclosed Photobioreactor designs and offers a wide variety of advantages:

Dramatically minimized energy usage and costs.
We use a proprietary strain of algae (we don’t genetically modify algae).
All growing parameters are optimized.
This control allows algae cultivation continuously on a 24/7 basis.
Minimal space requirements allowing for integration at virtually any facility.
The small footprint of each BioSilo™ allows installations to be located directly on CO2 donor sites, where land is usually limited.
Reduced material transportation costs.
As the BioSilo™ can be placed directly on the site of the CO2 producer and integrated within a complete Bioenergy production system, transportation costs are virtually eliminated. Transportation of CO2 is not required nor is transportation of biomass for subsequent processing.
Algae cultivation is not affected by external temperatures or weather conditions.
Each BioSilo™ can be equipped with independent heating, cooling, and humidity control systems to ensure that stable internal conditions are maintained in any climate.
Minimal risk of contamination.
The internal atmosphere in each BioSilo™ can be maintained in a clean and contamination free environment. Filters placed at air inlets/outlets prevent foreign species from contaminating the algal tanks.
Minimal (not disruptive) maintenance.
The modular design of the BioSilo™ allows straightforward maintenance and minimal operational disruptions

http://convertedcarbon.com/biosilo_process.aspx

Last week $50 Million, Today GESI has published the companies plan!!!
Today GESI has released the game plan for the company. Read the timeline and the steps that GESI is going to accomplish to complete the gasification plant.

https://us.etrade.com/e/t/invest/Story?ID=STORYID%3Detrade_2013_04_08_eng-etrade_cbs2_market_watch_eng-etrade_cbs2_market_watch_79878C63-22E8-4714-868A-DB1AF0AD2F4D&provider=BusinessWire

Come join us future millionaires at:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/Green-Energy-Solutions-Industries-GESI-4361/
to see that this is the real thing.

GESI/IFTF

GESI continues with $50 Million to convert railroad ties!!
GESI just concluded the $50 million funding deal to continue the project of converting used railroad ties to electricity. This has been a much anticipated step which has finally happened. The time is now to get in since the next steps are leaning towards the actual build out of the plant and not just the planning.

Read the whole PR here:
https://us.etrade.com/e/t/invest/Story?ID=STORYID%3Detrade_2013_04_03_eng-etrade_cbs2_market_watch_eng-etrade_cbs2_market_watch_48090A61-7DCD-443E-92BB-556389377893&provider=BusinessWire

Come join us future millionaires at:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/Green-Energy-Solutions-Industries-GESI-4361/
to find that this is the real thing.

GESI/IFTF

In re --cardboard--

No problem!

Plastic, cardboard, whatever will work:

The Epyr Pyrolysis System is well suited to handle various feedstocks:

Biomass
There is a growing interest worldwide for biomass energy conversion. Utilizing Epyr system can support the efforts to produce renewable energy from biomass feed stocks: energy crops, wood wastes, including forestry residues, timber production waste, barks, sawdust, crop residues, such as straws and other harvesting residues from cereals, cardboard and paper, residues from the food processing industry, and agricultural waste.

Municipal Solid Waste
MSW accounts for over 4 billion tons of waste annually worldwide. Cost-effective and sound municipal waste management is a pressing need in major population areas with huge volumes of waste and few disposal sites. MSW treatment bottlenecks are mainly associated with the mixed composition of the waste stream that is difficult to process effectively and safely using many applicable technologies.Epyr Pyrolysis systems can handle various materials mixed together in everyday MSW streams, including textiles, leather, rubber and plastic goods, plastic bottles, varnish-and-paint waste, wood waste, paper, cardboard, kitchen waste, etc and convert them to valuable by-products on a continuous basis, with no harmful emissions to the environment

http://www.ecoproject-bg.eu/_lang-en/piroliza_i_pirolizni_instalatsii

BTG-BTL’s fast pyrolysis technology

Technology

BTG-BTL’s fast pyrolysis technology is originally based on the rotating cone reactor (RCR). Biomass particles at room temperature and hot sand particles are introduced near the bottom of the cone, where the solids are mixed and transported upwards by the rotating action of the cone. Over the years, BTG-BTL has further improved and optimised the concept. The optimised is easy to scale-up and is characterised by an intense mixing without the need of an inert carrier gas. This results in a remarkable small reactor, reduced system complexity and minimum down stream equipment size.

In the process 70 wt.% bio-oil and only 30 wt.% char and gas are produced as primary products. Since no inert carrier gas is used, the pyrolysis products are undiluted and hence small vapour flow results in downstream equipment of minimum size.

Charcoal and sand are recycled to the combustor, where charcoal is burned to reheat the sand. The heat from the flue gases and the heat produced by the combustion of pyrolysis gases can be utilized in for example a steam turbine system.

© copyright & disclaimer BTG-BTL 2013

http://www.btg-btl.com/index.php?r=technology

More than a dozen clean tech projects to receive CCEMC funding

Projects aim to advance carbon capture, storage efforts and reduce emissions

BY Canadian Manufacturing Daily Staff ON October 31, 2012 11:13am
http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/general/more-than-a-dozen-clean-tech-projects-to-receive-ccemc-funding-83191?tmp=0&utm_source=CMO&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CMO-EN10312012&e=4w34mW0qq6yv10yMw4q

EDMONTON—The Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation has announced plans to fund 13 new clean technology projects led by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

According to CCEMC, the projects aim to advance carbon capture and storage efforts, enhance energy efficiency and reduce emissions from fossil fuels.

Combined, the projects are valued at more than $34-million, with CCEMC investing more than $6-million across all projects.

“Great ideas can come from anywhere,” CCEMC Chair Eric Newell said in a statement. “(SMEs) are incredible sources of creative ideas that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and demonstrate that clean technology is an increasingly important element of our economy.”

According to the Canadian Clean Technology Industry Report, clean technology is now employing more than 52,000 people across Canada and generating more than $10-billion in revenues.

“Investing in technology is critical to reducing emissions and a key theme of Alberta’s Climate Change Strategy,” Alberta Minister of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Diana McQueen said. “I’m pleased that the clean energy fund has become a viable mechanism for Alberta businesses to pioneer technology that will help us achieve our climate change targets.”

Three carbon capture projects are receiving funding:

Carbon Engineering Ltd., for direct air capture
CO2 Solutions Inc., for optimization of enzymatic system for Co2 capture from oil sands production
Sustainable Energy Solutions, for cryogenic carbon capture with energy storage

Six energy efficiency projects are receiving funding:

E3P Technologies, Inc. for a high efficiency engine project
Global Analyzer Systems Ltd., for a stack-top temperature reduction project
Imtex Membranes Corp. for energy efficient membrane refining of olefins for the petrochemical industry
Landmark Group of Builders for NetZero home design and demonstration for production housing
Pahl’s Preventative Maintenance Corp. for pump jack optimization and GHG reduction
Seal Well Inc. for permanent sealing of GHG emitting or sequestration wells with a bismuth-based metal alloy

Four projects to reduce emissions from fossil fuels are also receiving support:

Hi-Tec Fuel Systems Ltd. for engineering of a natural gas dual fuel blend system for heavy duty diesel vehicles

Lancaster Wind Systems Inc. for the LWS energy storage solution pilot project

Salt Canada Inc. for the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo aerobic landfill project

Saltworks Technologies Inc. for a low energy produced water treatment project

The projects are at all stages of the innovation scale, according to CCEMC, from development to commercialization.

Combined, the organzation claims, the 13 projects reduce emissions by an estimated 676,000-tonnes over 10 years.

http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/general/more-than-a-dozen-clean-tech-projects-to-receive-ccemc-funding-83191?tmp=0&utm_source=CMO&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CMO-EN10312012&e=4w34mW0qq6yv10yMw4q

A company that recycles post-consumer plastics into sustainable resin will invest $10 million in a new facility and headquarters in Rogers, creating up to 350 jobs, officials said.

The Arkansas Economic Development Commission said Wednesday that NextLife Asset Recovery Services will hire 340 employees at a new processing facility at 1300 N. Dixieland Road and another 10 positions in the corporate headquarters there.

According to a news release, NextLife already has agreements with several companies to supply post-consumer plastic waste, which it will sort, turn into sustainable resin and then supply to plastic goods manufacturers.

"We are thrilled to be opening our third location and our second processing facility,” President and Chief Executive officer Ron Whaley said in a statement. “We are excited to bring green jobs to Arkansas. I want to thank both the state and local officials who have made this day a reality."

Rogers Mayor Greg Hines called the addition of NextLife a "big win" for his city.

“I couldn't be more excited to welcome NextLife to Rogers,” he said in a statement. “NextLife's highly innovative and environmentally sustainable mission is a welcome fit to the city, ‘where possible lives’."

NextLife is based in Boca Raton, Fla.

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/oct/17/firm-invest-10-million-create-350-jobs-rogers/?breaking

$20M injection for Ottawa biofuel firm

Thursday, October 4, 2012

By Bert Hill, Ottawa Citizen

OTTAWA — Ensyn Corp., a low-profile Ottawa biofuel company whose technology turns wood waste to fuel, has landed a $20-million investment by Fibria Celulose, a Brazilian giant of the global pulp industry.

The injection effectively values Ensyn at more than $330 million — a big-ticket price that could lead to a stock market launch or a takeover bid by big oil companies under pressure to meet government renewable energy targets.

Fibria chief executive Marcelo Castelli said in a statement that the Ensyn joint venture will “leverage our expertise in growing fibre and market position in Brazil to (create) a powerful non-food biofuels growth business over the coming years.”

The investment comes at a time when many green technology companies are challenged to prove their potential in the marketplace.

From the big layoffs at Iogen, an Ottawa company that partnered with Shell in a failed biofuels project in Saskatchewan, to Republican election attacks on troubled U.S. green companies financed by Democrat tax grants and incentives, the sector is under pressure.

Ensyn too has struggled to prove the technology in an overnight success story that has taken more than 30 years.

But by slowly building a profitable business model and bringing in major industry partners and some investors, founder and chief executive Bob Graham and senior executives have also kept control of their company.

Unlike many small technology companies, Ensyn has not faced pressure from venture capitalists or public shareholders for immediate results.

Ensyn also has an impressive investor lists including Credit Suisse, Impax Asset Management of London, CTTV Investments LLC (a division of Chevron U.S.A. Inc.), Felda Palm Industries of Malaysia and Investeco Capital Corp. of Toronto.

Graham and his co-founder and chief technology officer Barry Freel patiently developed a unique biofuels technology that generates fuel and chemicals used in everything from adhesives to food additives.

The process quickly heats wood chips and sawdust, sugar cane, palm stalks and other waste in the absence of oxygen and generates “a liquid that looks like espresso,” according to Graham.

The technology is in operation at Ensyn plant in Renfrew and several Wisconsin plants. Trials projects are in the works including a Coll’Energia project in Tuscany, Italy, to support diesel-generated electricity and a Premium One Project in Malaysia that will process 400 tons of palm waste into energy daily.

While the Ensyn alternative oil is aimed at the energy market, it is revenue earned by the Renfrew plant from food additive customers that has paid the bills and generated profits. The company has 40 employees but won’t disclose sales.

The global financial crisis has hit Ensyn’s timetable of announced projects. The sharp drop in natural gas prices has postponed an $80-million production facility at an Alberta wood mill.

The Brazil deal opens more opportunities but the joint venture doesn’t spell out specific plans yet. The U.S. market could have 10 operations processing 400 tonnes daily within a decade. With pressure from U.S. laws for the production for 36 billion gallons of cellulosic renewable oil in 10 years, Ensyn is in a strong position.

“Our process can generate renewable gasoline, diesel and heating fuel at $45 per barrel of oil equivalent compared to $100 per barrel for conventional oil,” Graham said. “We can produce competitive green energy without any subsidies from government or taxpayers.”

Fibria, the world’s biggest producer of hardwood pulp, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange with market capitalization of more than $4 billion. It produces five million tons of pulp annually at four mills and fibre from a million hectares of land in seven Brazilian states.

In return for a $20-million investment, it will get a six per cent stake in Ensyn that could grow to nine per cent with further investments and increased production.

Honeywell, the U.S. engineering giant, was the first big company to get aboard the Ensyn bandwagon in 2008. The joint venture with UOP, Honeywell’s renewable energy arm, brought industry confidence in the Ensyn technology, Graham said.

It helped pave the way for deals in Malaysia and an investment by Felda, a big palm oil producer that had a $3.1-billion initial public offering of stock in June, the second biggest global deal after Facebook this year.

Graham, 59, first started researching the technology at Forintek, a former Ottawa government-industry research centre, in the late 1970s. He took the ideas to the University of Western Ontario where he got a doctorate in chemical engineering and worked with a mentor to develop a high-yield update to ancient processes used to smoke bacon and create the pitch used to caulk boats.

The technology was proven at a Renfrew plant and at plants in Wisconsin. But because non-renewable oil was cheap there was little North American interest, so Ensyn turned to Europe and demonstration projects at utilities in Finland, Italy and Sweden.

In an interview with the Citizen in 1997, Graham said: “We’ve taken the technology from our labs into the marketplace by becoming our own customer. By controlling the projects, we retain ownership and generate the revenues we need to finance development.”

He said the formula has not changed but the addition of major partners like UOP and Fibria have accelerated the process.

Then he was thinking about an initial public offering of stock in a couple of years. Now, “we continue to be interested in going there,” he said Thursday. “It depends on where the market is going and the investor interest.”

Another possibility is sell the company to a major industry player. While Ensyn is not saying anything for the record, it did sell an operation that uses the technology to upgrade heavy oil for use by refineries to Ivanhoe for $100 million in stock in 2005.

Ivanhoe is developing the technology for use in the U.S. industry as well as a possible Canadian heavy oil property.

© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/mobile/news/latest-updates/injection+Ottawa+biofuel+firm/7345870/story.html

Joule Fuels is a global producer of high-quality renewable fuels derived solely from sunlight and industrial waste CO2. We are a team of oil and energy industry experts with a commercial-ready system and plan for rapid deployment.

What We Do

We implement a revolutionary platform that converts industrial waste CO2 emissions directly into Joule Sunflow™-E and Sunflow™-D, high-quality and cost-competitive fuels that will meet fast-growing demand for ethanol and diesel.
http://www.joulefuels.com/

We never said changing the world would be easy. But we did say it can be done.

Joule’s renewable fuel platform will best the scale, productivities and costs of any known alternative to fossil fuel today, with no reliance on biomass feedstocks or precious natural resources. Our inputs are sunlight, waste CO2 and non-potable water. Our output? Millions of gallons of clean, renewable fuel that drops into existing infrastructure. Next step: change the world.
http://www.jouleunlimited.com/

Joule Unlimited IP:
Approximately 25 results found in the Worldwide database for:
JOULE UNLTD TECHNOLOGIES as the applicant
http://worldwide.espacenet.com/searchResults?compact=false&ST=advanced&locale=en_EP&DB=EPODOC&PA=JOULE+UNLTD+TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract of AU2008323673 (B2)

The present disclosure identifies pathways and mechanisms to confer improved industrial fitness on engineered organisms. It also discloses engineered organisms having improved industrial fitness. Synthetic biologic engineering modules are disclosed that provide for light capture, carbon dioxide fixation, NADH production, NADPH production, thermotolerance, pH tolerance, flue gas tolerance, salt tolerance, nutrient independence and near infrared absorbance. The disclosed engineered organisms can include one or more of these modules. Also provided are methods of using the engineered organism to produce carbon-based products of interest, biomass or pharmaceutical agents.
http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=EPODOC&II=18&ND=3&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=20090514&CC=AU&NR=2008323673A1&KC=A1
http://www.patent2pdf.com/pdf/20110124073.pdf
http://aiw2.uspto.gov/.aiw?docid=20110124073&SectionNum=1&IDKey=4D8A7C974848&HomeUrl=http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2%2526Sect2=HITOFF%2526p=1%2526u=%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsearch-adv.html%2526r=1%2526f=G%2526l=50%2526d=PG01%2526S1=20110124073.PGNR.%2526OS=DN/20110124073%2526RS=DN/20110124073

Audi and Joule pioneer sustainable alternatives to petrol and diesel using waste water

M2 Communications ENP Newswire - 04 October 2012

Release date- 03102012 - Audi engineers have contributed to a breakthrough of almost miraculous proportions by helping to develop fuels for the TFSI and TDI engines of the very near future using nothing more than lengths of ordinary-looking pipe, waste CO2, sunlight and microscopic organisms suspended in waste water.

The remarkable new 'wonder-fuels' have been developed by Audi and its US-based specialist fuels partner Joule. The 'refineries' responsible for them are the photosynthetic microorganisms injected into brackish water standing in the lengths of pipe. Measuring around three thousandths of a millimetre in diameter, these organisms have been genetically modified to prevent them from multiplying using the sunlight-aided photosynthesis process as they normally would. Instead, they are stimulated to use this process to convert the waste CO2 and the waste water into liquid fuels which they then secrete, and which can then be easily separated from the water and concentrated without the need for any further manufacturing steps.

The unparalleled global viability of these new fuels lies not only in the exceptionally simple and relatively inexpensive process which creates them, but also in the fact that the 'feedstock' used to produce them is entirely renewable. The crop-based biomass that has traditionally been a key constituent of synthetic fuels, and that could often otherwise be used for human consumption, is not required here. This has the added advantage of removing the need to locate the fuel production facility near habitable or arable land - a remote desert facility is entirely feasible.

Already a reality

Proof of this fact can be found in an unfertile, sun-baked region of the US state of New Mexico, where Audi and Joule have commissioned a demonstration facility which is already producing sustainable e-ethanol. This has the same chemical properties as bioethanol, a fuel which is consistently gaining in popularity, but which has the disadvantage of being produced using biomass. It will be possible to blend up to 85 per cent 'Audi e-ethanol' with as little as 15% fossil-fuel petrol for use by vehicles capable of running on E85 fuel.

Audi and Joule are also currently in the process of ramping up the same facility to produce a sustainable and exceptionally pure 'Audi e-diesel' fuel. In contrast to petroleum-based diesel, which is a mixture of a wide variety of organic compounds, this fuel is not only free of sulphur and aromatics, but is also easy to ignite thanks to its high cetane value, giving it exceptional performance credentials that promote outstanding engine operating efficiency. Audi e-diesel will work highly effectively with existing Audi TDI clean diesel systems without the need for modification.

The partnership between Audi and Joule has been in place since 2011. Joule has protected its technology with patents for which Audi has acquired exclusive rights in the automotive field. Audi engineers with extensive know-how in the areas of fuel and engine testing are helping to further develop these remarkable fuels so that they can genuinely be brought to market.

[Editorial queries for this story should be sent to newswire@enpublishing.co.uk]

((Comments on this story may be sent to info@enpublishing.co.uk))

http://www.equities.com/news/headline-story?dt=2012-10-04&val=557217&cat=material

Welcome to the Global Cleantech 100, a list of the top 100 private companies in clean technology. Collated by combining proprietary Cleantech Group research data, with over 6,000 nominations and specific input from an expert panel, these companies represent the most innovative and promising ideas in cleantech – the companies that are best positioned to solve tomorrow’s clean technology challenges.

http://www.cleantech.com/global-cleantech-100/

Agilyx Makes the Global Cleantech 100 List for 2nd Year in a Row

Marketwire

October 2, 2012

PORTLAND, OREGON--(Marketwire - Oct. 2, 2012) - Agilyx, the first company to convert difficult-to-recycle waste plastic into synthetic crude oil, today announced it was named in the prestigious 2012 Global Cleantech 100, produced by the Cleantech Group, a leading global research and advisory firm focused on innovation in energy and the environment.

The Global Cleantech 100 list highlights the promise of private clean technology companies from all around the world, focusing on those companies which the players in the market feel are currently the most likely to make the most significant market impact over the next 5-10 years. 8,285 companies were nominated this year from 85 countries. These companies were weighted and scored to create a short list of 236 companies presented to the expert panel for final input. The end result was 100 companies from 13 countries.

"It is an honor for Agilyx to once again make it to the Global Cleantech 100 list," said Chris Ulum, President of Agilyx. "It is a testament that we are making significant inroads in the clean tech space and our unique technology embodies innovation while providing a solution to one of the most pressing environmental issues today."

What distinguishes Agilyx as an alternative energy company is their cutting edge patented processing system, capable of reducing 10 tonnes of plastic waste from landfills per day. To ensure their practices are sustainable, the company has developed an Environmental Control Device that filters out any hazardous gasses from the air. The result of this process is valuable crude oil ready for the refinery and extracted without causing environmental damage.

"The 2012 Global Cleantech 100 is markedly different in its composition to that of 2009, our first edition," said Richard Youngman, Cleantech Group Managing Director. "As such, it is a strong statement of how the collective market opinion has shifted as to what type of companies are the most likely to have significant market impact in a 5-10 year timeframe."

The full report of the Global Cleantech 100 list is available at http://www.cleantech.com/global-cleantech-100/.

About Agilyx

Agilyx is an alternative energy company - the first in the world to economically convert difficult-to-recycle waste plastics into crude oil through a patented system that is scalable, versatile, and environmentally beneficial. Applying its proprietary technology, Agilyx reduces plastic waste normally destined for landfills, produces refinery-ready crude oil, and creates community and local jobs with its small-scale, distributed waste management and energy production approach. The company's affordable, modular systems are sold to industrial and municipal waste plastic generators and aggregators looking to reduce disposal-related costs and increase plastics-associated revenues - all while meeting challenging environmental standards, curbing the need for new landfills, and extracting the often-unused and untapped energy contained within waste plastic. Agilyx has the only known refinery off-take agreement in the industry and currently ships crude oil from its showcase facility in Tigard, Oregon to a refinery in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. For more information, please visit www.agilyx.com.

About Cleantech Group:

Cleantech Group's market intelligence, events and advisory services accelerate market adoption, stimulate demand, and remove barriers to cleantech innovation. A global company with offices in North America and Europe, we connect business leaders with cleantech innovation through the i3 Platform, the most comprehensive, vetted, up-to-date source for insights into companies, investors, financing and relationships across the clean technology ecosystem. Cleantech Group also produces the premier Cleantech Forum(R) and Focus(TM) events worldwide.

http://www.elp.com/index/from-the-wires/wire_news_display/1754279048.html

Converting Waste Plastic to Crude Oil

Agilyx is the first in the world to economically convert difficult-to-recycle waste plastics into crude oil through a patented system that is scalable, versatile, and environmentally beneficial.
http://www.agilyx.com/

Plasco's IP:


Approximately 73 results found in the Worldwide database for:

PLASCO ENERGY GROUP INC as the applicant

http://worldwide.espacenet.com/searchResults?compact=false&ST=advanced&locale=en_EP&DB=EPODOC&PA=PLASCO+ENERGY+GROUP+INC

Thanks Nano,

This link has some good info for carbon to gas.

http://www.ces-txvi.com/VI_forum/PlasmaGasification.pdf

Plasco is one company about to get commercial sales soon - they now have a demo plant running the last couple years to prove their tech.
Not public.

http://www.plascoenergygroup.com/

I bought GEYI because of their Alphakat - Covanta connections - I don't expect any action for a year or two or three.

Alter NRG Corp. is also public and has plasma tech from Westinghouse.

Ref:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/Global-Energy-Inc-GEYI-11916/
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GEYI
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NRG.TO
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ANRGF

http://plasmatechnologyapplications.com/technology.html

Very interesting.

http://pacificpyrolysis.com/PacPyro%20Investment_AT&GL.PDF

Foreign exchange though.

Any emerging public companies?

I've heard of carbon to energy, and wish to learn more as time allows.

Thanks for the board.

Direct Carbon Conversion:
The realization of a 150 Year Old Dream!

CellTech Power
http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/proceedings/03/dcfcw/Tao.pdf
http://www.fuelcellmarkets.com/fuel_cell_markets/member_view.aspx?articleid=2596&subsite=1&language=1
http://www.sara.com/papers/FCRJanDCFC_SARA_Reprint.pdf
http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/proceedings/09/seca/posters/Gur_Poster.pdf

Energy Conversion Technology Special Interest Group

About us

As world energy demand continues to grow, it is ever more important that the environment is safeguarded and that energy production and use become sustainable. Renewable energy will, in the longer term, play a significant role. In the meantime, we continue to rely on traditional resources, including fossil fuels, which must be exploited using advanced, cleaner, technologies.

IChemE’s Energy Conversion Technology Special Interest Group focuses on chemical engineering activities that seek better ways to convert energy, with improved efficiencies and reduced environmental impact. It promotes and disseminates the technological developments that are the basis of the utilisation and exploitation of energy resources of all kinds. These include clean power generation, carbon capture and storage, waste processing, hydrogen production and use, fuel cells and developments in transport fuels, including biofuels.

Membership is open to anyone with an interest in the area – you don’t need to be a member of IChemE to join the Energy Conversion Technology Special Interest Group.

Download publicity leaflet >>


http://www.icheme.org/communities/subject_groups/energy%20conversion%20technology.aspx

Some background:

There are a number of other new and emerging technologies that are able to produce energy from waste and other fuels without direct combustion. Many of these technologies have the potential to produce more electric power from the same amount of fuel than would be possible by direct combustion. This is mainly due to the separation of corrosive components (ash) from the converted fuel, thereby allowing higher combustion temperatures in e.g. boilers, gas turbines, internal combustion engines, fuel cells. Some are able to efficiently convert the energy into liquid or gaseous fuels:

Thermal technologies:

Gasification (produces combustible gas, hydrogen, synthetic fuels)
Thermal depolymerization (produces synthetic crude oil, which can be further refined)
Pyrolysis (produces combustible tar/biooil and chars)
Plasma arc gasification PGP or plasma gasification process (produces rich syngas including hydrogen and carbon monoxide usable for fuel cells or generating electricity to drive the plasma arch, usable vitrified silicate and metal ingots, salt and sulphur)

Non-thermal technologies:

Anaerobic digestion (Biogas rich in methane)
Fermentation production (examples are ethanol, lactic acid, hydrogen)
Mechanical biological treatment (MBT)
MBT + Anaerobic digestion
MBT to Refuse derived fuel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy

Direct carbon conversion: progressions of power

BARBARA HEYDORN WITH STEVEN CROUCH-BAKER

Broad commercialization may be a long way off, but direct-carbon fuel cells could one day hold the key to cleaner, more efficient stationary-power generation in plants delivering several hundred megawatts of capacity.

WHILE MOST FUEL cells are classified by their electrolyte, a new type of fuel cell is being developed that is best classified by its fuel – carbon. Carbon is an attractive fuel because it is contained in a variety of regionally dispersed and easily accessible resources, including coal, lignite, natural gas, petroleum, biomass and waste materials (such as plastic), or refining byproducts such as coke. Unlike hydrogen, which is more frequently used to run fuel cells, carbon and carbon-containing materials are easy to store and transport. What’s more, many of the researchers currently developing direct-carbon fuel cells (DCFCs) believe that the systems they are working on will one day be robust enough to use carbon-containing sources such as coal directly in the fuel cell.

If DCFCs progress as those researchers hope, the technology will have dramatic implications through its potential to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and expand the range of resources that can be used to generate electricity in stationarypower systems. Put simply, DCFCs represent a way to convert carbon’s chemical energy to electricity efficiently and without forming by-products associated with conventional combustion – i.e. particulates, nitrous oxides (NOx), sulphur oxides (SOx) and mercury (although impurities that exist in coal, such as sulphur, will still exist as part of some waste stream).

Generating electricity from coal electrochemically will produce CO2, a greenhouse gas, but because DCFCs could be significantly more efficient than conventional coal-fired power plants, the emissions could be reduced significantly for each unit of electricity generated. On top of this, some DCFC developers expect to recover the CO2 in a concentrated stream that can be easily captured and sequestered.

http://www.sara.com/papers/FCRJanDCFC_SARA_Reprint.pdf

These are some of those companies, individuals and documents - the list grows...daily:

Alphakat
Klean Industries
Agilyx
AG Plastic Reclaim
Ventana
Polyflow
KleanTech Industries
Alter NRG
Polymer Energy
Cynar
WO2011077419
SITA
Suez Environnement
PyroPure
RODECS
Chinook Energy
Active Pyro
BLEST
Joule Unlimited
Splainex Ecosystems
Plasco
Nature's Fuel
CHEVRON USA INC
Robau
Fulcrum BioEnergy
InEnTec
Solena
DINTER
WO2012065342
DAP
Ruixin Group
USED TYRE DISTILLATION RESEARCH LIMITED
SIERRA ENERGY
Fuji Recycle Industry
Mobil Catalysts
Tosoh Corp
GRANIT SYSTEM S.A.
Martin Linck Gas Technology Institute
Linck - United States Patent Application 20100132258
Xinxiang Xinda Energy Equipment Co., Ltd.
Jiangsu
Air Products - AlterNRG
Texaco gasification technology
Rational Energies
Erus
Enerkem
Pyrocrat
Xinxiang Huayin
PARC
Harita-NTI
Poly-Green Technology and Resources
Climax Global Energy* Allendale, South Carolina
Envion* Washington, D.C.
GEEP* Barrie, Ontario (Alphakat tech)
GreenMantra Recycling Technology Toronto , Ontario
Natural State Research (NSR)Stamford, Connecticut
Nexus Fuels Atlanta, Georgia
Northeastern University Gas (skips distillation process)
Recarbon corp. Kingston, Pennsylvania
Vadxx* Cleveland, Ohio
Anhui Oursun Environmental Technologies China Hefei in Anhui, China
ECO – Int’l Marketing Korea
P-Fuel, Ltd. Australia
PlastOil Switzerland
Polymer Energy U.S. Thailand, India
Northern Technologies International Corporation
T Technology Poland (Zbigniew Tokarz)
Energy Dynamics Corporation International (EDCI)
Standard Oil International Ltd.
GenAgain Technologies (Agilyx)
AK-ER Bioenergy
Lyns Ltd