Business
BioPower from SierraWave Technologies is the new sustainability benchmark for low cost on demand on site reduction of biomass waste and production of renewable energy. SierraWave Technologies BioPower systems provide renewable energy while reducing Green House Gases; reducing methane emissions, reducing impacts to landfills, water and air; consuming waste on site and producing sterilized water and methane for powering generator sets, microturbines or fuel cells. SierraWave Technologies was founded by serial entrepreneurs with 2 decades of starting and operating technology based businesses within regulated industries. And SierraWave has filed system patents around proven DOE technology for use in specific market segments - producers of wet biomass waste with operations and locations suitable for the production and consumption of on site, on demand energy.
Dairies, Utilities, Food Processors, Ag
Waste disposal costs: removal and disposal of waste biproducts. Continously increasing cost of electricity. Business caps costs for removal and energy production on-site.
TBD
Ongoing business concerns that generate wet biomass as a result of their operations.
Show potential customers the means to cap their costs for energy and for waste disposal from their current operations. No cost of equipment to customers.
Municipal waste water treatment facility has given SierraWave a letter of intent to provide 10 wet tons of sludge per day to evaluate system operation and potential for cost mitigation and energy production.
Anaerobic digesting systems.
BioPower from SierraWave Technologies takes biomass waste produced on site and produces energy to be used on site: capping disposal costs, reducing the production of GHCs and producing energy for use in operations.
Power Purchase Agreements and Waste Offtake Agreements with customers. Customer does not pay for equipment. SierraWave installs, turns on and operates equipment on customer premises.
BioPower modules take wet biomass (dairy waste, waste from food production/packaging, municipal waste water treatment sludge) and feeds a continously processing gasification system. The reduction of waste (by 90+%) produces methane and steam. The heat/steam from the operation can be used by the system or used in other operations. The modules are installed on site of a processing plant and operated by SierraWave professionals. The customers, who do not pay for the equipment, contract for waste offtake and power purchase agreements with SierraWave.
Technology
Small footprint installation; onsite consumption of waste and production of energy; high efficiency - reduces waste by 90+%; fast processing (less than 1 day); continuous feed operations; on demand power or fuel for generator set, microturbine or fuel cell.
Proven DOE technology incorporated into system patent filed by SierraWave Technologies. DOE tech is thermocatalytic conversion of wet biomass to methane and water.
Thermocatalytic conversion of pre-processed waste to continously feed reactor chamber.
DOE has been working with the technology for 20 years and SierraWave patent incorporates DOE tech into commercially viable operating system.
Technology risk is low; DOE has worked on engineering and proving gasification technology for decades; SierraWave system uses commercially available parts and modules for producing energy from methane.
Team
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Paul Donahue | CEO |
| Mark Donahue | COO |
| Jeff Dankworth | Other |
Financials
To build and operate biomass to electricity systems including:
Prototype development, minimum viable product introduction to potential market, system engineering, organizational development, legal and administrative support, customer development, sales and marketing, production of 1st 5 units for placement at customer locations; follow-on system development, deployment and operation.
| Funding Round | Funding Type | Funding date | Funding Source/ Investors | Amount | Pre-Money valuation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed/Bootstrap | Debt | 0 | 0 | ||
| Project | Asset-based | 0 | 0 |
Sound slike a great project. It seems like you are locking in somemajor partners. I would make sure that your IP is locked in securely and have a great legal team. Also, after that, as you would know, it would just come down to execution and securing partnerships with "suppliers".
Can you please list the following here -
1. All patent numbers
2. Any demonstration videos or diagrams
I shall be interested in speaking with you as you move along the process.
