SBIR Phase II: Clean, Inexpensive, and Carbon-free Energy from a Toxic Waste

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This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project proposes tocommercialize a new process to recycle petroleum toxic wastes to clean and inexpensiveenergy. This Phase II project will scale the improved process by modifying the company?s pilotunit to incorporate the enhancements realized with the bench scale unit in Phase I. The basicSuperATR is a non‐catalytic process that employs a cyclic flow reactor filled with an inert packedbed. In the cyclic flow reactor, the direction of oxidizer/fuel mixture is periodically reversedproducing a high temperature volume. The modifications in the Phase I project effectivelyraised the temperature even higher to make the reactor even more efficient.The broader impacts of this research are that deteriorating qualities of oils and gases is forcingthe petroleum sector to incur very high cost for energy and waste disposal. For example, thebenign disposal of hydrogen sulfide costs oil refineries and natural gas processing plants $5billion a year. Present technologies only permit extracting the sulfur content while wasting themuch more valuable hydrogen portion. In commercializing this technology, the valuepropositions are but not limited to: Obtain 9 billion kilowatt hours of carbon‐free electricity and steam inexpensively. Lowering gasoline and diesel prices, even by 1 cent per gallon, would leave $2 billion inthe hands of Americans. Eliminate 5 million tons of greenhouse gas along with 1.5 million tons of acid rainpollutants by helping refineries and natural gas plants exceed environmental standards.