IMPACT BIOENERGY®:
FAST FACTS
ENORMOUSLY WASTEFUL
Preventing food and beverage waste is the lowest-cost alternative, followed by rescuing edible food to feed those who are food insecure.
However, the most widespread solution is to throw it away - that is, pay to landfill the renewable resource.
In urban areas across the country, food scrap diversion to aerobic composting (AC) is taking a hold to the extent composting can tolerate wet waste with fat and protein. Inherent shortcomings of AC is that the material is exposed to the atmosphere, resulting in off-gas odors and vector attraction (e.g. odor complaint, rats, etc.), and quality control challenges caused by packaging residuals.
WE NEED A SOLUTION
Anaerobic digestion (AD) of food waste can be extremely beneficial since the material is sealed off from the atmosphere (odor control and vector control) while being converted into renewable resources – organic biofertilizer and biogas – using no chemicals and producing zero residual waste.
All of this is necessary to continually import feedstock and export product once operational.
This makes it difficult to scale up or scale down -- or replicate since each individual project takes 5+ years to design, build and commission.
IMPACT BIOENERGY® IS THAT SOLUTION
Impact Bioenergy® solves these problems by manufacturing modular AD systems to convert food and beverage "waste" on-site into organic biofertilizer and renewable energy (there is roughly a 90/10 split between the coproducts).
The HORSE™ (aka High-solids Organic-waste Recycling System with Electrical Output) can be designed to convert 25 to 175 tons per year while the NAUTILUS™ (multiple chambers) can convert 185 to 1,500 tons per year. Multiple modules are possible.
HOW IT WORKS
TRACTION & ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Since 2015, we have shown an ability to commercialize our value proposition systematically through connectedness, continuous improvement and co-creation. We have been recognized by many national and international organizations for our system and product development.
We started with a 25 ton per year standard HORSE™ and have now expanded to 7 standard systems from that original size -- up to 1,500 tons per year NAUTILUS™ at the high end of our spectrum.
We are working on a third product line called the OX that offers more flexibility to digest commingled food, paper, cardboard, wood, and landscape waste.
This development began with the commercialization of the HORSE™ and recently celebrated the first NAUTILUS™, a 60x scale-up of the HORSE™.
Most recently, during COVID-19 we were deemed essential while serving smaller farms with liquid ProBiotic Food™ (PBF) for plants as a subscription B2B service.
Now, consumers nationwide also have a way to join the movement. We recently launched our first B2C product, PBF Blend No. 7 on Amazon valued at $40/lb, which helps us support regenerative organic agriculture.
We are also launching our first food waste fueled coop vehicle, with Organic Renewable Natural Gas™ (ORNG) valued at $3.15/gasoline gallon equivalent.
Notably, in 2020 we deployed our 2nd NAUTILUS™ machine, to CA, while our HORSE™ continues to gain traction. We think this shift into strategic partnerships (e.g. Microsoft, Compass Group, Alegría Fresh, etc.) is both efficient and powerful. We are thriving in leading a new paradigm of distributed, modular waste-to-resource conversion, enabling a resilient circular economy.
We credit this to three disruptive differentiators:
PATENTS AND IP
These Patents are the IP foundation for our enterprise:
In addition we have a number of service and trademarks, secrets and knowledge across the key functions - design, build, own and cooperate - which we protect, and have started to license as IP.
VASHON BIOENERGY FARM, LLC
Our wholly owned subsidiary, VBF, is a newly commissioned, $1.5M NAUTILUS™ that is seeding a portfolio of Community AD-as-a-Service hubs across the nation and globe. For the Vashon Island community, we are putting into service the first food "waste" fueled vehicle with Organic Renewable Natural Gas™ (ORNG), while coproducing ProBiotic Food™ (PBF) for plants:
PARTNERSHIPS
Laser Cutting Northwest (LCNW) has accelerated our commercialization efforts by being an early stage capital investor. They have grown into a 6-acre ISO certified advanced manufacturing space, which we have had their legacy 1-acre building to grow into, without having to invest in a manufacturing plant ourselves. They have enabled our small team to absorb and deliver on multiple orders at once.
Upstream we have several key component partners. We have teamed with Canada-based Quadrogen Power Systems to deliver refined renewable natural gas, and Austria-based Thöni North America to deliver the third-generation OX digester.
Downstream from manufacturing, other than key project partners such as Microsoft, Compass Group, Energy4Autism, Blue Terra Waste Solutions, and Green Values Australia, we support small businesses with our CSB service mark, and seek others that allow us scale-up opportunities. Together, with Alegria Farmacy, we have discovered a method to merge high-performance cultivation (regenerative food / energy) with zero-waste food waste conversion into on-site renewable energy and chemical free organic soil.
OTHER KEY TECHNOLOGIES
Other key technologies include SunPower solar array and a SimpliPHI POWER battery backup, which dramatically increases our renewable energy footprint and supports our carbon mitigation efforts. Additionally they include an EcoGrid System with Alegria Farmacy food production, gasification, AD, RNG/LNG transport and storage, CHP power generation, EV fast charging, and production of EV trucks and busses. We will continue to update the design, including adding an advanced water recovery and filtration system.
MEET THE TEAM
Jan Allen, P.E, CMQ/OE
PRESIDENT AND CEO
Srirup Kumar, MBA
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OFFICER, OPERATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS
Michael J. Smith, Attorney, LEED AP
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Timothy Murphy, EIT
ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS
Taylor Knoblock, EIT
ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS
Paco Joyce, Distiller
TECHNOLOGIST
Andrew Corbin, PhD, ASA
AGRONOMIST
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