Edge BioEnergy - Forward thinking energy and waste engineering
We are your source for integrated biomass based cogeneration plant design expertise and implementation.
We are strongly committed to promoting GREEN alternatives to the current energy and waste disposal status quo.
Edge BioEnergy is committed to the advancement of alternate and environmentally friendly energy production. Our primary focus is in utilizing "waste" products like agricultural, forestry and municipal wastes for generating energy products while minimizing existing waste streams. Our company also has extensive solar, hydroelectric, anaerobic digestion, computer controlled advanced gasification and data acquisition / control systems (wired and wireless) design and implementation experience. We have been involved in numerous off and on grid projects in the western hemisphere and Europe since 1982.
Edge BioEnergy (EBE) is dedicated to minimizing the environmental impact of solid, municipal and agricultural wastes. Through several years of analyzing the waste streams of farms, municipalities and industry, EBE designed a process specific to extracting value out of existing waste streams. By focusing on different components of the waste stream, EBE is reducing the volume of material going to landfills and creating profitable green energy at the same time. After conducting a waste audit, EBE looks at three types of material: recyclables, organic matter, and trash.
The recyclables are extracted through an aggressive recycling program and sold to manufacturers who utilize the recovered material in the creation of another product. Our system can utilize virtually any carbon bearing biomass or waste stream some examples of are:
Organic matter is extracted and fed into the biomass conversion system that is appropriate for the waste. Typically one of the following two alternatives.
1- 1- EBE anaerobic digesters to create two valuable bi-products. One is biogas, which can be used directly as is or used indirectly as fuel for generators, to produce electricity (100~200 Kwh / ton of biomass or waste input). Second, the final output of the digested organic matter is an organic fertilizer with an average of ~4-4-4 NPK fertilizer value (~.1 ton yield per ton input). This fertilizer can be used internally, if agricultural activities are available or sold at market.
2- 2- Advanced gasification systems to produce syngas to run electrical generation systems or through our proprietary EdgeReformer technology you can convert the syngas to synthetic gasoline, diesel or other hydrocarbon products. Typical yields are 40 to 120 gallons per ton of waste / biomass input. Both of these systems are 100% closed loop in their operation, in that no emissions or wastes are generated. Additionally they both manufacture large quantities of distilled water as a byproduct as well.
Another benefit of the EBE processes is that during the processing of the organic material, excess heat is used in conjunction with waste oils, from local sources as well as produced through the biomass conversion process, to produce additional bio fuel; specifically biodiesel and ethanol (an 8 Mwh plant produces an additional ~ 250,000 gallons of biodiesel and ~100,000 gallons of ethanol per year regardless of technology). These fuels are central to operations of a solid waste or biomass recovery program since fuel is the biggest cost in the procurement of materials and transport to the plants.
By using all energy available in the process, as well as aggressively recycling, EBE reduces waste streams down to 10% or less of their original amounts. At the same time, the closed loop design helps achieve efficiencies that are at least twice that of any other current waste reduction techniques. The design that Edge BioEnergy implements create value in the solid waste that is a problem in most other areas.
Another benefit of the closed loop nature of our process is that water requirements and any possible pollution, are immensely reduced relative to any other technology of waste processing. Virtually all of the water input into the system is recycled back into the system. Less than 1% of all water resources utilized are lost, mainly due to evaporative losses when operating above 70 degrees. There are virtually no air pollution components due to our integrated carbon dioxide sequestration technologies. The virtually all “smell” problems are also addressed by the closed nature of system as well.
EBE operates a recycling division, and an alternative energy production division to handle all solid waste needs. As energy prices continue to fluctuate and costs of dealing with solid waste continues to rise, EBE’s goal is to create sustainability at home to increase our nation’s energy independence and mitigate the impact of solid and agricultural wastes.
The management of EBE has designed automation, data acquisition and a novel patented fiber optic communications system used by Lockheed Martin to solve wiring / communication limitations in the C-130 and F-16 airframes while increasing available resources for future expansions and has had numerous successes in implementation of subsequent automation systems for usage with large scale biomass projects. EBE conducts waste audits and energy audits for businesses and communities regularly in effort to encourage sustainable practices. With the in depth understanding of the waste stream and its advantages in the energy realm, EBE’s motto is,
“Create a PRODUCT out of a PROBLEM”.
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