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Anaheim-based Catalyx Nanotech, Dudek team up
The two companies are working to produce green hydrogen and nanomaterials from landfill gas.
By Kristen SchottPublished: January 15, 2009 10:29 AM
Catalyx Nanotech, an Anaheim-based nanotechnology company, and Encinitas-based Dudek, an environmental and engineering consulting firm with offices in Orange County, are partnering to develop low-cost green, or eco-friendly, graphite and hydrogen production.
The companies will be installing plants at landfills throughout Southern California to convert methane gas – which is produced naturally from decaying organic materials – into elemental graphitic carbon, which will be made into nanomaterials, and hydrogen, a viable fuel source.
Catalyx Nanotech currently operates a technology that removes carbon from the methane as high-purity graphite, used in aerospace, automobiles, batteries, among other industries and applications. The graphite is then converted to Platelet Graphite Nanofibers (PGNF), which can be used in advancing many green technologies such as wastewater treatment and gas separation. This system will be employed at the plants.
"Catalyx Nanotech's solution has the potential to offer cost and environmental benefits to all parties involved, particularly landfills and anaerobic digester plants that are struggling to generate sufficient revenues from electricity generators," says Chris Trees, Dudek's senior project manager.
Dudek is analyzing the company's technology for its environmental impacts, including its ability to reduce greenhouse gases in landfills. Dudek will also help identify landfill sites for plants and will engineer the project.
Catalyx Nanotech expects to begin production at the first plant in late 2009.
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The companies will be installing plants at landfills throughout Southern California to convert methane gas – which is produced naturally from decaying organic materials – into elemental graphitic carbon, which will be made into nanomaterials, and hydrogen, a viable fuel source. Catalyx Nanotech currently operates a technology that removes carbon from the methane as high-purity graphite, used in aerospace, automobiles, batteries, among other industries and applications. The graphite is then converted to Platelet Graphite Nanofibers (PGNF), which can be used in advancing many green technologies such as wastewater treatment and gas separation. This system will be employed at the plants. "Catalyx Nanotech's solution has the potential to offer cost and environmental benefits to all parties involved, particularly landfills and anaerobic digester plants that are struggling to generate sufficient revenues from electricity generators," says Chris Trees, Dudek's senior project manager. Dudek is analyzing the company's technology for its environmental impacts, including its ability to reduce greenhouse gases in landfills. Dudek will also help identify landfill sites for plants and will engineer the project. Catalyx Nanotech expects to begin production at the first plant in late 2009. Related headlines Teridian Semiconductor Corp. joins the green grid BioShaft to open plant in Nebraska OC METRO Minute Dec. 23: Clean Energy continues with Sun Metro OC METRO video footage: How 'green' is YOUR company? The Green 15 BlueFire to develop green waste facility in South Korea |
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