US-based waste-to-fuel technology developer Raven SR LLC (Raven SR) has announced that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with Zanker Recycling in San Jose, California (CA), to provide the site and feedstock for Raven SR’s first 25 dry-ton commercial renewable hydrogen production facility, based on its multi-patented steam/carbon dioxide (CO2) reforming process.
Owned by Zanker Road Resource Management Ltd, San Jose-based Zanker Recycling is solid waste and recycling company that began operations in 1985 by developing a landfill into full-service resource management and composting/recycling facility.
In 1998, Zanker Recycling expanded operations by permitting an adjacent landfill site as a construction and demolition debris processing facility. These two facilities process more than 2 600 tons of mixed debris per day.
We are thrilled to partner with Zanker Recycling to make our first renewable fuel facility a reality and divert even more waste from their landfills, turning it into clean, non-combustion fuel sources. This letter of intent is an important first step in bringing green, renewable hydrogen to the northern California market to help meet the California Energy Commission’s goal that transportation hydrogen is at least 33 percent renewable and has a carbon intensity of 30 or less. Our fuels meet and exceed that requirement, and the California EPA has previously ruled our technology as a non-incineration process, said Matt Murdock, CEO of Raven SR.
Based in Pinedale, Wyoming (WY), Raven SR is founded on the leading-edge technology developed by Intellergy and Dr Terry Galloway. Raven SR’s non-combustion, multi-patented, steam/CO2 reforming process converts mixed biogenic and non-biogenic feedstock into renewable fuel products such as hydrogen, diesel, methane, and Fischer-Tropsch (FT) fuels.
According to the company, the non-combustion process has minimal air emissions and significantly reduces greenhouse gases (GHGs) from start to finish. The skid-mounted technology is designed to flexibly switch between input and outputs and is easily scalable.
Raven SR is contracting with Fluor Corporation on the final design engineering for its production facilities and is working to secure the financing for the San Jose- and additional facilities across the United States and the Caribbean.
Raven SR can eliminate the garbage piling up in our cities and turn it into low or zero-emission fuels through a method that ensures air quality, and Zanker’s collaboration on this hydrogen fuel project is an ideal means to achieve these goals, said Matt Murdock.
