VC&E possesses a wide range of secure intellectual property (IP), including trade secrets, industrial know-how as well as US and international patent protection. Our acquired IP includes the Ventless Gasification Combustion System (VGCS) an advanced gasification process developed by VC&E along with several major international corporations.
Other IP includes proprietary technology for producing carbon-neutral synthetic fuels to replace petroleum-derived gasoline and diesel. A brief introduction describing each of our four VGCS processors is also shown graphically in the block flow diagram below.
Feedstock Processor - One hundred to one hundred and fifty tons per day of organic MSW and sewage sludge can be processed into a pleasant smelling, non-methanogenic organic feedstock in just 6 days. The process results in uniform and energy dense particles.
Gasification Processor - The primary use of the Gasification Processor is to produce synthetic fuel gas (syngas) and char from processed waste and biomass. Our primary gasifier is a nominal 5-megawatt pressurized, circulating-fluid-bed, partial gasifier, also called the "Partial Gasification Module" (PGM). The PGM evolved from German technology begun 1920s.
Char produced by the Partial Gasification Module is sterile when it is removed from the PGM. Biochar is made from PGM char when it is activated with soil microbes. Recently verified biochar testing has shown adding char or biochar (activated microbial char) to crops at the rate of one ton per acre can more than double field and orchard crop production. Biochar discovered in the Terra Preta (black earth) soils of the Amazons has lasted without decomposition for more than 1,000 years after it was put in soils by an ancient civilization to sustain fertility and improve crop production. Like planting trees, producing biochar removes atmospheric CO2 and generates valuable carbon credits. Char can also be activated with steam to produce activated charcoal, also called activated carbon. It is used to filter air and water and has many uses in most urban communities.
Synfuel Processor - Carbon-neutral transportation fuels are made in our proprietary catalyst reactor to produce products such as methanol that can be stored and used to produce energy for the process, sold as a liquid fuel to replace petroleum in all flexible-fuel vehicles, used as a hydrogen carrier for fuel cells or reprocessed into other synfuels including syndiesel.
Power Processor - Electric power is generated on-site mainly for the VGCS using a syngas fuel cell. Electric power can also be generated during local power outages or to offset high tariffs paid during peak-power use times.
