Biomass Supply Chain Optimization for Renewable Energy Production — Wood Waste Value Chain Innovation. Funded through PG&E’s Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) program. Total Award: $300,000

“Renewable Syngas Methanation” — GFO-18-501 (PIR-18-004) Total Award: $2,000,000

“Forest-Biomass to Power” — GFO-15-325 (EPC-17-012) Development, Demonstration, and Deployment of Environmentally and Economically Sustainable Biomass-to-Energy Systems for the Forest and Food Waste Sectors. Total Award: $1,499,000

“Advanced Recycling of MSW” — PON-14-303 (EPC-14-045) Advancing Cleaner, Less Costly, More Reliable Distributed Generation to Enable Customer Solutions and Zero-Net Energy Communities. Total Award: $1,546,097

“Syngas Process Development for Renewable-Methane Production” — EISG-14-17G Total Award: $150,000

“Biomass-to-Syngas: Novel Low-Cost Counter-Current Process” Taylor Energy designed, patented, and managed construction of this novel gasification system under the Public Interest Energy Research program.

On-Farm Small Scale Waste Energy Demonstration. Co-funded with EISG to design, develop, and demonstrate a novel fluid-bed gasification method for conversion of carbonaceous feeds into synthesis gas and hydrogen. This project led to the design and construction of novel fluid-bed technology.

Retained to perform technical diagnosis of a failing MSW gasification system at the Tees Valley Waste-to-Energy plant in the UK — one of the most complex plasma gasification failures in the industry’s history.

Business Start-up, design, construction, and start-up of a 5 ton/day dual-fluid-bed pilot plant demonstrating biomass gasification for biofuels and fuel-gas production, based on Dr. Kunii’s PYROX method.

Gasification system analysis.

Waste-to-energy market analysis for the United States market.

Technical and economic evaluation of waste-to-liquids project performance at 900 ton/day MSW input scale.

Preliminary design for a 600 ton/day MSW-to-methanol plant intended for Maui, Hawaii.

Joint proposal integrating gasification with a microbial process for converting residual asphaltenes from oil sands into carbon molecules.

Designed, built, and operated the Proler Syngas Process at 50 ton/day scale. Integrated TRW’s oxygen-fired cyclonic combustion technology with Proler’s Tumbling Bed POX Reactor, resulting in gasification of MSW and vitrification of carbonaceous ash.

Evaluated MSW gasification options and identified qualified firms for an MSW-to-electricity project using dual-fuel EMD diesel engines with novel emissions control.

Gas Technology Institute — Chicago, IL: Evaluation of coal gasification technologies for methane production from syngas.

Western Waste Industries / Environmental Solutions — Los Angeles, CA: Strategic planning for energy recovery and waste conversion at the El Sobrante Landfill, including power generation and LNG production.

Air Products and Chemicals, GSF Division — Fountain Valley, CA: Project development, site selection, and environmental planning for a 15,000 gpd LNG project integrated with 10 MWe electric power generation.

The Federal Reserve Bank: Selected incineration system for the destruction of federal currency containing lead and PCBs.

Adlen Group Enterprises: Designed, permitted, and installed a landfill gas collection system; negotiated a long-term LFG sales agreement with Pacific Enterprises (SoCal Gas).

BOC/Airco, Industrial Division: Developed a method for converting drop forges from steam to pressurized nitrogen power, reducing continuous natural gas consumption.