The 40 Hottest Technologies of 2018 – as voting gets underway, the nominees in depth
WXF-Sustainable Bio-Energy Process
What does it do, how does it work, who is it aimed at?
The WXF-BioEnergy platform consists 3 units oprations: the waste preparation (proprietary), WXF-Bioreactor (patented in US and Canada) and the conversion of gas to liquid process (patent pending). The objective is to take advantage of the abundant supply of organic/biodegradable wastes, from agricultural, commercial, industrial and municipal sources, which they expect to be paid to treat as feed-stock, to profitably produce bio-methanol. they believe that Their bio-methanol (derived from waste and captured emissions) will provide one of the most advanced solutions to the growing global demand for renewable sources of energy, while also addressing the challenges associated with sustainable waste treatment and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. This technology is aiming at waste processing market and GHG emission reduction, the major potential customers are municipal,agriculture and industry wastes and large industrial GHG emitters. The biomethanol product can be used as feedstock for chemical industry or clean fuels.
Competitively, what gives this technology an edge?
Currently there are plenty of different technologies that uses organic waste as raw material to produce biogas and bio-methanol product. However, most of these technologies doesn’ have many industrial applications due to high capital and operating cost. It is quite difficult to persuade the companies and investors to setup plants without ability to create profit. While this technology is not only capable of addressing the similar environmental problem but also has the following advantages compare to other existing technologies: 1. Able to process municipal and agricultural waste thus collect tipping fees; 2. Produce high valve bio-methanol product via a novel process to achieve high profitability. 3. Reduce overall carbon footprint (CO2 and CH4), avoiding carbon tax and enjoy carbon benefits at some provinces; and 4. Reducing potential secondary pollution. To summarize, this technology can resolve environmental issue while creating profit in the meantime
What stage of development is this technology at right now?
In the process of building their “gas to liquid process (industrial emission to clean fuel) demo plant” in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They also received a small funding towards to building a “wastes to bio gas and then to green methanol project” at a Bio-Industrial Innovation Center of Canada (Sarnia, Ontario, Canada).
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