The most prolific categories for potential site partners are companies operating in industries that produce large quantities of organic waste byproduct.  Initially, the company has targeted six site partner categories with significant organic waste streams suitable for conversion to liquid fuels using Novus Energy’s RGL™ technology:

Agricultural Processing: Existing ethanol production has drawn attention to the use of corn stover (stalks) and sugar cane bagasse as future feedstocks for their production processes. The Novus Energy® ethanol production process has been developed to accommodate all organic agricultural residues and byproducts, including sugar beet pulp and tailings, corn stover and other waste materials from the processing of field crops.

Food Processing: Each year the U.S. food processing industry generates billions of pounds of solid and liquid food processing waste. For many of these businesses their waste streams create a large and expensive disposal problem that can be offset by applying the Novus Energy waste-to-liquid fuels technology.

Municipal Waste Treatment Facilities: Wastewater treatment facilities process large volumes of commercial and residential waste that is well suited for anaerobic bioprocessing, biogas production and RGL conversion to liquid fuels. By applying Novus Energy’s waste-to-energy technology, these facilities, many of which are already using methane generating anaerobic digesters, will create new revenue streams that will add significant value to the communities they serve.

Landfills: Covered landfills contain organic material that, through anaerobic decomposition, generates large volumes of biogas, which is often flared, by mandate, to minimize harmful methane greenhouse gas emissions. (Methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide). Applying the Novus Energy waste-to-liquid fuels technology will offer landfills a more environmentally sound solution.

Animal Manure and Livestock Processing:The management of dairy and livestock processing facilities creates large volumes of solid and wastewater effluents that often cause air and water pollutant problems. The waste generated at these facilities includes dairy parlor wastewater, manure, litter and bedding, feedlot runoff as well as rendering wastes from slaughterhouses. Generating liquid fuels from these waste streams will decrease waste management costs and create a new revenue stream.

Aquaculture:As the aquaculture industry continues to grow, innovative solutions will be required to handle the increasing quantity of wastewater effluents produced at commercial hatcheries and canneries. By applying the Novus Energy liquid fuels technology, a value-added alternative will allow large processors to mitigate the high costs of conventional waste disposal.

Novus Energy also has the capability to convert methane from fossil fuel sources—typically, stranded natural gas wells and/or coal gasification—using a more traditional GTL (gas-to-liquid) technology.  Converting coal into methane gas, rather than burning the coal in a traditional coal-fired power plant, reduces greenhouse gas (CO₂) and creates value-added energy solutions. While the use of methane (or synthesis gas) to generate electricity reduces the environmental consequences of burning coal, it does not offer an economic return comparable to GTL fuel production.