Roane County Industry of the Year

Proton Power named Roane County’s 2014 Industry of the Year

The annual Roane County Industry Appreciation Breakfast on May 28th was headlined by guest speaker Dr. Thom Mason, director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  Mason’s core message was that a part of ORNL’s mission is to offer its unique capabilities and facilities for the development of private enterprise in the Innovation Valley.  Following Mason’s remarks, Proton Power was surprised and honored to be recognized as the 2014 Industry of the Year in Roane County.

“Proton Power is a nine-year-old company that began making hydrogen through a patented cellulose to hydrogen power (CHyP) system in 2012. Now, Proton Power is one of the fastest growing industries in Roane County, expanding their existing sites while also acquiring new ones, totaling five now."

"I have been amazed at just what is being accomplished right here (in Roane County) that is having an enormous impact on the world around us,” said Wade Creswell, president and chief executive officer of The Roane Alliance. “There is no greater example I know of than this year’s industry of the year – Proton Power. We are proud to have Proton Power in our community and are excited for their future.”

Sean Hensley, Human Resource Manager, was in attendance to accept the award on behalf of Proton Power.

The full article in Oak Ridge Today can be found here.

http://oakridgetoday.com/2014/06/12/proton-power-named-roane-countys-2014-industry-year/

Proton Power in Biofuels Digest

“We have the advantage of making our own hydrogen. But I tell you, we had come up with something but it was very different. You see, back in the early 2000s we built a system for the University of Tennessee. We headed down the standard path in cellulose to liquid fuels. Like everyone on that path, we had the same catalyzed fluidized bed, and ended up with same thing…”

“But, recently we saw a better way, and just before Christmas we had sort of a miracle, where right out of the process we are getting hydrocarbon molecules, via a very different process. We were stunned, but we’re not really talking about that, we’re still writing the patents.”

Read the entire interview with Dr. Sam Weaver here.

http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2014/05/08/return-of-the-pyromaniax-proton-power-and-its-hydrous-pyrolysis-process-for-super-low-cost-hydrogen/

Howard Baker Center Event in Review

Proton Power, Inc. was honored to present at an afternoon event on Monday hosted by the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy on the University of Tennessee campus.  The engagement was part of a lecture series focused on the topic of “Energy & Environment.”  Dr. Sam C. Weaver, founder and President & CEO of Proton Power, spoke at a private luncheon for distinguished out-of-town guests prior to presenting to a capacity audience in the Toyota Auditorium.

The presentation detailed the development to date of Proton Power’s Cellulose to Hydrogen Power (CHyP) technology, with a unprecedented public revealing of recent breakthroughs in the application of this technology to create liquid hydrocarbons, that is, renewable diesel, jet fuel and gasoline, at production costs lower than petroleum fuels.

For anyone unable to attend the event, an archived video of the presentation can be viewed here.

http://bakercenter.utk.edu/monday-may-5-1-pm-powering-a-clean-sustainable-tomorrow/

Cool Energy Awarded DOE Grant

Cool Energy, Inc. Awarded $1 Million Grant From DOE for World's Most Efficient Stirling Engine

Boulder, Colorado - July 23, 2013 - Cool Energy, Inc., a clean energy power generation company and sister company of Proton Power, Inc., with headquarters in Boulder, Colorado, announced today that it has been awarded a $1 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant form the U.S. Department of Energy. The grant will support a program to demonstrate electricity generation from untapped heat from distributed geothermal sources. The grant will allow Cool Energy to build and test their first 20 kW prototype Stirling engine to generate electricity from co-produced liquids at oil and gas wells. The recoverable heat in these liquids is currently wasted, as is the potentially valuable heat from pumps and compressors, as well as geothermal heat from non-producing wells.

"If widely deployed in appropriate heat recovery sectors, our power generation technology could replace up to 300 fossil fuel power plants,” said Sam Weaver, Jr., CEO of Cool Energy. “Given recent advances in our designs, there is an opportunity for electricity cost savings and emissions reductions in oil and gas fields, which have significant thermal energy sources all around them. This is the most important increase in output capacity that Cool Energy has undertaken since beginning to develop Stirling engines for waste heat recovery six years ago.”

The “GeoHeart Engine” will convert heat from liquids extracted from the ground to make zero-emissions energy. The Cool Energy technology will recapture energy from liquids that are in the temperature range 100C – 200C. This temperature is ideally suited for the company’s low temperature waste heat recovery (WHR) system. The heat can be safely and efficiently converted into electricity that can be used onsite to offset the power needed for the operation of the wells, or sold to the local utility and added directly into the power grid. This approach to oilfield power production will prevent some of the carbon emissions generated from these activities. Cool Energy will also study another application of the GeoHeart Engine, using spent wells that are no longer producing petroleum to heat fluids to make emissions-free electricity.

About Cool Energy

Cool Energy is a privately-held power conversion equipment corporation based in Boulder, Colorado. The company was founded in 2006 to develop a thermal-to-electricity power generation system for converting waste heat from engines and industrial processes into clean electricity. The company has received grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Colorado Governor’s Energy Office, and has 10 patents awarded or pending.

More information is available at www.CoolEnergy.com.

Proton Power Presents First Annual Sales Awards

Proton Power, Inc. hosted its first annual sales awards dinner at Tellico Village Yacht Club on the evening of Wednesday, the 1st of May. Three companies were honored for outstanding sales of Proton Power, Inc.’s Cellulose to Hydrogen Power technology.

ARiES Energy of Knoxville, TN, Global Link One, Inc. of Los Angeles, CA and Proton Power Bioenergy, Inc. of Kelowna, BC, Canada were each appreciated for their important roles in 2012 for the early commercial success of CHyP technology, as it is affectionately known.

CHyP technology converts biomass and waste material to a hydrogen-rich syngas, which directly feeds natural gas or diesel generators to provide clean, sustainable electrical power. Additionally, the inexpensive hydrogen produced by the CHyP system will be used to make drop-in synthetic fuels such as renewable diesel, gasoline and jet fuel.

The pioneering adopter of CHyP technology is Wampler’s Farm Sausage of Lenoir City, TN, also the 2013 recipient of the Pinnacle Innovation Award by the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce. The first of its kind in the world, the bioenergy system at Wampler’s will boast 750 kilowatts of installed capacity for on-demand, distributed electrical power and is scheduled for completion in midsummer of 2013.

Among the other early adopters of CHyP technology are a transportation company with a large requirement for diesel fuel and a large company in the lumber industry. Proton Power, Inc. respects the wishes of these organizations to remain anonymous at this time. Proton Power is tremendously grateful to be a part of these organizations’ sustainability initiatives and be their clean energy choice of the future.