Cogent Energy Systems announces that its engineering partner, Creare LLC of Hanover NH, was selected for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant from the US Navy to fabricate a complete waste-to-electricity system using Cogent Energy Systems’ HelioStorm Gasifier as the core waste processing technology. The system will be capable of cleanly converting up to 3.5 tons per day of mixed waste into energy-rich synthesis gas. This syngas will then be directly combusted in standard military generators to produce almost 800 kWh of net electricity per ton of waste processed. This electricity will be available on-site for
general use at a base or naval operation.
“This SBIR award is an important step in the commercialization of our HelioStorm technology,” said Dr. Abraham E. Haspel, CEO of Cogent Energy Systems. “We look forward to working with our engineering partner, Creare, to build this full commercial scale system that is expected to exceed US Navy specifications.”
Cogent’s ultra-high temperature ionic gasification technology has been proven to handle a wide variety of feedstocks with moisture content up to 50%, including municipal solid waste, biomass and bio-oil. Tests conducted on municipal solid waste during Phase I of the SBIR grant resulted in extremely clean syngas capable of powering existing military generators, without creation of hazardous by-products.
Ionic Gasification is Cogent’s proprietary new process that involves the direct-contact processing of biomass and/or solid waste in an active plasma field at temperatures of 3,000 to 10,000 degrees Celsius, resulting in an extremely clean, high energy syngas that can be used to make many profitable products such as electricity, hydrogen, liquid fuels, and chemical precursors.
“Our engineering team is excited to continue our work on this Navy project” said Dr. Jay Rozzi, a Principal Engineer at Creare. “The work we will undertake will accelerate the commercial application of waste-to-energy opportunities at small scale in markets that are not currently accessible.” These opportunities include distributed energy applications in remote communities, military applications, and industrial parks, among many others. Work on Phase II will begin this month with fabrication, and characterization of the system’s performance is scheduled for 2018.
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