Diversified Energy: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile
Diversified Energy
Based in: Arizona
2008-09 ranking: Unranked
Business: The strategy of the company is to maintain a diverse portfolio of technologies in the gasification and biofuels markets. As such, the company is developing an molten-slag based gasifier that can gasify a wide range of feedstock and produce an ultra-clean syngas; a biorefinery technology to covert non-food based oils to petroleum-equivalent transportation fuels using little net hydrogen; a glycerol burner for the production of heat and/or power using raw crude glycerol from transesterification-based biodiesel production; and a low cost algal biomass production system.
Model: Sublicensing technologies, JVs, spinning out IP into new entities, selling IP, building and selling plants, and/or building and operating plants.
Past milestones:
1. Capture of multiple Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contracts from the DOE and DoD to develop the OmniGas molten-slag gasifier at a scale of 1 ton/day, as well as a R&D grant award from the California Energy Commission.
2. Production of sample batches of renewable diesel from Centia biorefinery process under a grant from the state of North Carolina.
3. Fabrication and operation of a 90k Btu/hr crude glycerol burner prototype, including testing for emissions and use of glycerol from operational biodiesel plants.
Future milestones:
1. Demonstration of syngas reactor at 1 ton/day, construction start for full-scale, commercial equivalent pilot-plant facility.
2. Design, integration and demonstration of a 20 – 50 gallon/day Centia™ system taking multiple inputs (algal oils, jatropha oils, and animal fats) and producing biogasoline and biojet fuel with little net hydrogen consumption.
3. Scale-up of crude glycerol burner to 2 MW class, first commercial orders received.
Metrics: OmniGas syngas estimated cost is $4.00 – $6.00/MMBtu. Centia estimate is <$0.40/gallon
plus the cost of the incoming feedstock.
Diversified Energy quotable quotes: “Diversified Energy’s competitive advantage is in its suite of innovative technologies, all of which have a common set of powerful, value-added attributes including: 1) technologies that can accept multiple incoming feedstocks, 2) technologies that can produce fuels that look akin to fossil-fuel based products, and 3) technologies that can economically scale to various sizes and thus bring distributed applications in close proximity to feedstock sources and energy distribution nodes.”
“The concept is easily adaptable to countries around the world. Waste that is used as feedstock in the technology is available everywhere as is the need for successful waste management solutions. This combined to the global need for renewable energy ensures the potential in the market for this product.”
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