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August 25, 2009
Nevada-based W2 Energy Inc., a green energy equipment developer, expects to have its patented algae bioreactor up and running in Guelph, Ontario, in mid-September, according to CEO Mike McLaren, after which time, the company will begin selling its bio-oil and searching for partners to help commercialize the bioreactor itself. "Our company strategy is joint venture instead of equipment sales," McLaren said.
The Sunfilter bioreactor will grow algae to produce bio-oil for biofuels and will be used to sequester carbon dioxide from the company's waste-to-energy processes. It also can be sold separately to algae producers, biodiesel producers, labs, aquaculture companies, and coal and petroleum plants, according to W2. A purchase cost for the equipment, which took a couple years to develop, has not been established, McLaren said.
Inside the bioreactor, low-power ultraviolet lights, in combination with the gases, feed the algae so it grows and fills the tubes with blooms, according to W2's Web site. When the blooms have reached an appropriate density, a set of magnetic rings inside the tubes scrapes the blooms clean and pushes the algae to the upper manifold, where compressed air pushes it out. The algae is then compressed, dried and then either gasified or fed into a biodiesel reactor to produce biodiesel.
W2 also has developed a multi-fuel reactor to produce ultra-low sulfur diesel, a blend of JP8 jet fuel or gasoline; a plasma-assisted gasifier; a SteamRay rotary system engine that converts energy from steam or fuel combustion into a rotary force; small energy generating systems; and the Non-Thermal Plasmatron. The plasmatron, designed to gasify hydrocarbons to produce syngas, also is being built in Guelph and should be operational in mid September, McLaren said. W2 has licensed its technologies to Alpha Renewable Energy in India and is working with China and several corporations in the U.S., McLaren said.
The company also developed a 4-ton municipal-solid-waste system that was not sold as planned because the buyer's funds were not adequate, he added.
Since W2 announced at the beginning of August that the bioreactor will reach commercial scale, many parties have expressed interest in purchasing it, according to McLaren. "Tons and tons and tons," he said. "It's hard to keep up."
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08/04/09 -- W2 Energy Inc. (PINKSHEETS: WTWO), a developer of green energy, is pleased to announce it has successfully completed a commercial scale algae bioreactor.
The Sunfilter bioreactor will be used to sequester any CO2 byproducts from the W2 Energy waste to energy processes well as the product can also be sold separately. Customers such as algae producers, biodiesel producers, labs, aquaculture companies, coal and petroleum plants are among the Sunfilter target market.
W2 Energy's Sunfilter is a low cost, low energy consuming bioreactor capable of being ganged together to fit any large scale need as well as be able to stand alone for small scale applications.
The algae for fuel market is quickly growing and the W2 Energy Sunfilter will fit the needs of many producers. Recently Exxon announced on CNN it was beginning to develop algae production for the use of fuel. W2 Energy is past the development stage and is now ready to market our products.
Pictures of the single unit can be viewed on W2 Energy's website at www.w2energy.com
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