Projects & Companies
Just the start of something great.
Now over 120 members strong, with more than 75 companies and 9 utilities as members, MCEI is working towards bringing about the realization that the Tri-Cities, WA region
is primed to become the nation's recognized leader in solving energy challenges.
BioProducts
Biofuels are a wide range of fuels that are in some way derived from biomass. The term covers solid biomass, liquid fuels and various biogases. Biofuels are gaining increased public and scientific attention, driven by factors such as oil price spikes, the need for increased energy security, and concern over greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.
Biomass, a renewable energy source, is biological material from living, or recently living organisms, such as wood, waste, (hydrogen) gas, and alcohol fuels. Biomass is commonly plant matter grown to generate electricity or produce heat. In this sense, living biomass can also be included, as plants can also generate electricity while still alive. The most conventional way in which biomass is used, however, still relies on direct incineration. Forest residues, for example (such as dead trees, branches and tree stumps), yard clippings; wood chips and garbage are often used for this. However, biomass also includes plant or animal matter used for production of fibers or chemicals.
Biomass may also include biodegradable wastes that can be burnt as fuel. It excludes such organic materials as fossil fuels, which have been transformed by geological processes into substances such as coal or petroleum.
BSEL (Biopruducts, Sciences & Engineering Lab)
BioChemCat Project
DOE Grant
Washington State University Tri-Cities
2720 Crimson Way
Richland, WA 99354
http://www.tricity.wsu.edu/bsel
The team of WSU Tri-Cities, the Port of Benton, Clean-Vantage LLC and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will conduct the $1.5 million
"BioChemCat" pilot project in the Bioproducts, Sciences, and Engineering Laboratory at Washington State University Tri-Cities under the leadership
of Birgitte K. Ahring, Director of the WSU Center for Bioproducts and Bioenergy and the Battelle Distinguished Professor.
BioChemCat refers to the biorefinery process which makes use of both biochemical and thermochemical processes for making biofuels and biochemicals.
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BSEL (Biopruducts, Sciences & Engineering Lab)
Isoprene Production
NSF Grant: Biomass Recalcitrance
Washington State University Tri-Cities
2720 Crimson Way
Richland, WA 99354
http://www.tricity.wsu.edu/bioproducts
BSEL researchers develop, demonstrate and commercialize bioproducts, bioprocesses and bioenergy derived from a wide variety of biomass resources using biochemical and/or thermochemical conversion processes.
Columbia Basin Community College
Nuclear Engineering and Biofuels educational focus
2600 North 20th Ave.
Pasco, WA 99301
www.columbiabasin.edu
Two year comprehensive community college dedicated to providing the highest quality programs available to meet the needs of students. New focus on Nuclear Engineering and Biofuels.
EverGreen Renewable Energy
Edmonds, Washington
www.evergreenrenewable.com
Fostering existing and new technologies as they move to commercial scale. EverGreen Renewable will leverage the existing infrastructure and renewable technology solutions to provide the best solutions for each opportunity.
Gen-X Energy Group
10 N. Washington Ave.
Kennewick, WA 99336
http://www.genxeg.com/
Biofuel and other, local renewable energy technologies.
Jacobs
295 Bradley Blvd. Ste. 204
Richland, WA 99352
www.jacobs.com
Jacobs provides professional, technical, and construction services comprising various aspects of engineering and construction, operations, and maintenance, as well as scientific and specialty consulting services.
NHThree
PO Box 202
Richland, WA 99352
NHThree has developed and patented an energy-efficient process for making anhydrous ammonia (NH3) from simply water and aiir using virtually any source of electric
power to heat and drive the reaction. That proces (U.S. Patent 7,811,442) is named Solid State Ammonia Synthesis (SSAS).
Unlike all other industrial methods for making NH3, the SSAS process does not make hydrogen gas (H2) as an interim product, which would then have to be heated, pressurized
and stored. The SSAS process actually functions much like a fuel cell in reverse but, intsead of consuming a fuel to produce power, SSAS converts electric power into NH3 fuel.
By side-stepping the hydrogen production requirement, SSAS boasts very efficient production of "green" NH3 compared to to other methods using water electrolyzers, or even
"brown" NH3, produced by steam reforming coal or natural gas to first make hydrogen.
The NH3 produced with SSAS can be used as an essential nitrogen fertilizer, in other chemical applications such as carbon capture, but also an important fuel,
since NH3 has been shown to be an effective carbon-free, liquid fuel to power engines and generators, fuel cells, and combustion turbines. Moreover, by using
SSAS to convert electric power into NH3 fuel, that electric power has been stored efficiently, compactly, and permanently until the NH3 is combusted with oxygen
or fed to a fuel cell. SSAS-U.S. Patent 7,811,442
Vista Engineering Technologies, LLC
1355 Columbia Park Trail
Richland, WA 99352
www.vistaengr.com
Engineering and environmental consulting
