Taylor Energy is a WOSB California corporation engaged in the Research & Development of sustainable energy solutions, particularly focusing on the use of sorted Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), Forest residues, and  Refuse-derived Biomass as renewable energy resources for the production of ultra-clean transportation fuels, hydrogen, electricity, and carbon capture.

California Energy Grant Work:

Donald Gene Taylor:  CTO, PI for sustainable energy research and development, grant fulfillment

Education: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA   BS Degree in Chemistry, 1976

As Project Manager, Taylor has completed 7-gasification design & start-up projects.

Twenty-five years experience in design, development, and demonstration:

Energy conversion technologies, biomass gasification, coal-to-SNG, MSW gasification, LFG-to-CNG, LNG production, energy systems analysis; enhanced oil recovery.

Donald G. Taylor, PI, CTO Taylor Energy, a California Corporation, performing sustainable energy research and development. Donald Taylor has experience fulfilling grants for the California Energy Commission. He was selected to evaluate technical problems associated with the Air Products MSW gasification system at the Tees Valley Waste-to-Energy plant. Donald Taylor has completed ten gasification design & start-up projects in the public and private sector:

Agency or Corp. Technology Team Feedstock Capacity Date Grant Amount
California Energy Commission (CEC) “Renewable Syngas Methanation”

Donald Taylor PI Taylor Energy

Dr. Arun Raju, Co-PI UCR

Forest Biomass

 

 5-7 lbs/hr 2019-2023

$2,000,000

 
California Energy Commission (CEC) “Forest Biomass to Power”

Donald Taylor PI Taylor Energy

Dr. Arun Raju, Co-PI UCR

Forest Biomass

 

 

 3 ton/day 2017-2021 $1,499,000
California Energy Commission (CEC) “Advanced Recycling of MSW”

Donald Taylor PI Taylor Energy

Dr. Arun Raju, Co-PI UCR

 Sorted MSW 3 ton/day 2015-2019 $1,546,097
Public Interest Energy Research Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) “Syngas Process Development for Renewable-Methane Production” Donald Taylor Sorted MSW 180 pound/hr 2015-2017 $150,000
West Biofuels LLC Dual Fluidized Bed Gasification Donald Taylor, Robert Cattolica Biomass 4 ton/day 2006-2010 $5,000,000 (private funds)
EPA Transport Gasifier Donald Taylor, Switchgrass 50 pound/hr 2005-2006 $80,000
PIER/Taylor, DOE/ Western Research Institute “Renewable Energy Technologies Biomass-to-Syngas” Donald Taylor, Vijay Sethi Grass Seed Residue 150 pound/hr 2004-2005 $500,000
Proler Environmental Corp. Rotary-retort Gasification Donald Taylor, Harold Burnham Sorted MSW 50 ton/day 1994-2000 $5,000,000 (private funds)
GRI/EER [GE Global Research] Jet-Spouted Bed Gasification O2-CH4-steam

Sorted MSW

 

 20 ton/day 1990-1993 $1,000,000

WORK HISTORY:

Energy and Environmental Research Corporation (became part of GE Global Research, now owned by Air Products) Donald G. Taylor managed the Engineering Technology Division where the emphasis was on problem-solving for industrial clients, performing research, development and demonstration of innovative combustion and energy-conversion technologies.

Examples: Taylor performed process design and technology selection tasks for the Lagoven Refinery in Venezuela which resulted in the construction and continuous operation of a 1000 ton/day pet coke boiler providing additional process steam to the refinery and using an opportunity feedstock unique requirements for removal of nickel, and vanadium, and sulfur.  Subsequently at Lagoven, Taylor was able to participate in the problem-solving efforts focused on the largest gasification reactor in the world–the Exxon Flexicoker. “We were able to help resolve process control issues, and minimize bubble-cap oxidation, enabling more stable operation of the gasification process.”

Taylor was assigned to perform trouble-shooting activities for fluid-bed combustion-related projects, which included multiple projects for clients operating wood-fired boilers in California.  Helping resolve criteria emissions issues and helping improve process operations were the primary functions performed by EER engineers.

As principal investigator for a multi-year EPA-GRI-SOCAL sponsored program, Taylor was responsible for the design, funding, and construction of an O2 fired Fluidized Bed system intended for steam gasification of lightly processed MSW.  He managed the design and construction of a 32” ID Fluidized Bed Process Development Unit (PDU), with a 25 ton/day capacity, which was used for solid waste processing.  The PDU was also selected by DOE Rocky Flats for mixed-waste (low-level radioactive waste) gasification trials.

Taylor managed a variety of design, evaluation, and construction projects at EER relating to waste recovery and efficient waste fuel utilization.  He managed a project for Fluor Daniel, evaluating the performance of a 1,000 ton/day Fluidized Bed combustion system operating on waste biomass; system performance was the subject of a $400 million dollar litigation relative to warrantee operating specifications.  Taylor’s analysis of the fuel properties and performance were instrumental in resolving issues in favor of the client.

While at EER, Air Products and Chemicals Corporation engaged Mr. Taylor (in support of litigation) to demonstrate the cause of a major refinery fire in the defense of a billion-dollar law suit.  The work performed involved the design and construction of a test rig, which was used by Taylor to stimulate the release and ignition of high-pressure, high-temperature crude oil (700 F) escaping from a pipe-rupture.  Multiple vapor-cloud release and ignition events were performed at a remote site near Reno, Nevada. The resulting detonations were filmed and used by the client to successfully support their position during the litigation.

Under contract with the EPA, Taylor has performed gas turbine cycle analysis, evaluating state-of-the-art gas turbines and turbine equipment systems for power production using solid fuel gasification cycles, with special emphasis on atmospheric vs. pressurized Fluid Bed gasification for efficient use with moist biomass and MSW.

Taylor also managed the design and construction of emissions control systems, such as the Flue Gas Recirculation (FGR) system installed for Union Pacific Resources, which was needed to meet the NOx reduction requirements in the SCAQMD.

As Project Manager and Lead Engineer for the LA County Sanitation Districts’ Puent Hills Landfill Gas-to-Clean-fuel project, Taylor was responsible for the preliminary design, construction, and start-up engineering.  The project included compression of LFG to 500 psi, purification via carbon adsorption and membrane separation, followed by further compression, storage and dispensing via a dedicated CNG fueling station.  The system was dedicated on June 16, 1993 and is still operational.

Taylor also managed the performance of an LFG-to-LNG feasibility design project for SOCAL GAS Company intended to provide a near-term LNG supply at 15,000 gal/day scale for demonstration of clean-fuel projects in the Los Angeles basin.

Airco/BOC, Industrial Gas Division.  Taylor served as a Regional Engineering Manager responsible for developing new applications for industrial gasses; nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide; combustion experience relates to ferrous and nonferrous melting with oxygen,; aluminum and brass melting with O2-fired systems; enhance glass=melting with O2, waste vitrification, down-hole-steam-generation, O2-fire-flooding, and coal gasification.

Air Liquide America  Regional Engineer responsible for the design and construction of cryogenic oxygen and nitrogen system for a variety of end users, including food freezing, combustion, high-temperature furnace atmospheric modification (sintering, annealing), wafer fabrication, cryo-drying, cryo-grinding, and fire-flooding with high-pressure liquid oxygen injection.

Advanced Polymer Technology, Inc  Prior to working in the industrial gas business. Taylor founded and operated a for-profit company for five years, manufacturing and marketing hydrophilic polymers made from the acrylonitrile monomer.  Taylor licensed the process technology from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, developed the bench-scale process to pilot-scale, and then established commercial production. Major market applications for the polymer product were as a thixotropic viscosifying agent, with uses that included oil drilling mud thickener and viscosity building in aqueous fire fighting solution used in aerial drops.  Current-day major markets for the product now are in baby diapers and tampons, where it is used as a super absorbent.

PATENTS ISSUED AND APPLIED:

Pulse Detonation Shock-wave Gasifier 2018

Rotary Detonation Rocket Engine Generator 2018

Rotary Steam Rocket Expander 2010

Method and Apparatus for Reforming Carbonaceous Feedstocks 2007

Method and Apparatus for the conversion of carbonaceous feedstocks into methane 2002

Method and Apparatus for comminuting and pneumatic separation of solids 2001

Method and Apparatus for gasifying organic materials and vitrifying residual ash 1996

Spouted Bed Gasification of Wastes 1991

Oxygen Enhanced Pyrolysis of Organic Wastes 1984

Method of Manufacturing Starch/Acrylonitrile graft copolymer 1977

STUDIES AND REPORTS:

“Syngas Process Development for Renewable-Methane Production” Energy Innovations Small Grant Natural Gas Program, Grant #14-17G, Donald G. Taylor, PI, July 2016.

“Bio-refinery Demonstration–Producing Gasoline & Diesel from Biomass”  Proposal Document prepared for the California Energy Commission, 2010.

“Low-Emissions Electricity Production From IC Engines Burning Biomass Derived Producer Gas” A.C. Van Blarigan1*, R.J. Cattolica2, D.G. Taylor3, R. Seiser2, R. Dibble,  University of California at Berkeley, USA; 2University of California at San Diego, USA; 3West Fabrication, 2009.

“Integrated Biorefinery Producing Mixed-Alcohols from Biomass” Study Prepared for West Biofuels Development, LLP and US Department of Energy, 2008.

“Refuse Derived Biomass Gasification Feasibility Study” Prepared for CR&R Corporation by Bechtel Technology, San Francisco & Taylor Energy, Irvine, 1999.

“Production of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Landfill Gas (LFG)” Prepared for Orange County Integrate Waste Management Department, Santa Ana, CA #90-109, 1991.

“Spouted Bed Incineration / Metal Fixation” Prepared for US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio #FE90005, 1990.

“Pyrolysis Auto Shredder Residue” Prepared for California Department of Health Services, Hazardous Waste Reduction Program #90-SA019, 1990.

“Waste Combustion System Analysis” Prepared for US Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC 277711 #68-03-3365, 1989.

 

Deila Broberg Taylor:  CEO, Contracts and Grants Officer: Government grant applications and contracts, project fulfillment.

Education:

Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, B.S. Biochemistry

USC, Los Angeles, CA, Graduate studies in Toxicology and Pharmacology

Northcentral University, AZ, M.Ed. Media & Technology

Grants Managed: