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Genifuel Corporation produces equipment to make renewable methane from wet organic material by a highly efficient process known as Catalytic Hydrothermal Gasification (CHG). The energy our equipment produces is clean, safe, and economical. The use of biologically-produced fuel causes no net increase in greenhouse gases. We believe it is also the cheapest biofuel which can be made today. The Genifuel process starts with wet organic material, either photosynthetic biomass such as algae and other water plants, or other wet material such as food processing wastes--for example fermentation bottoms from beer making. The process also works extremely well with wet wastes from other biofuel processes such as corn ethanol production or algae biodiesel production. Wastewater solids and dairy waste also gasify well, and give much higher yields than anaerobic digestion (see below for comparison). Regardless of feedstock, the organic material is collected and then gasified in the Catalytic Hydrothermal Gasifier, which achieves very fast conversion of more than 99% of the organic content of the wet biomass. The gasifier was developed by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, (PNNL), part of the US Department of Energy. Our technology is based on patents (pending) which we have developed, as well as on an exclusive worldwide license to patents developed by PNNL. The output of the gasifier is a 60/40 mixture of methane and carbon dioxide, which can be burned directly as a fuel gas (for example, to make renewable electricity), or can be further processed to make renewable natural gas and used exactly like fossil natural gas as a transportation fuel, generator fuel, or injected into a natural gas pipeline for other uses. See photos of the equipment and feedstocks. Comparison of Catalytic Hydrothermal Gasification and Anaerobic Digestion |
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