Clean Coal & Oil Shale Gasification

Sierra Energy’s FASTOX™ process is the world’s first utility-scale gasification system capable of converting a variety of otherwise problematic feedstocks into renewable energy, all without any process emissions.

Feedstock Variability

Sierra Energy’s FASTOX™ process turns the traditional iron-making blast furnace into an omnivorous gasifier that can cleanly convert a wide variety of problematic wastes—including biomass, municipal solid waste, oil-shale, petroleum coke, refinery residuals, sewage sludge, hydrocarbon-contaminated soils, and chlorinated-hydrocarbon byproducts—into a clean, high-quality syngas that can be used to produce energy or transportation fuels.

Scalability

While competing technologies are unable to process more than approximately 300 tons of feedstock per day, and in many cases much less, FASTOX™ can process more than 25,000 tons of feedstock per day with a single gasifier, converting that feedstock into clean energy and other marketable products without any emissions and without producing any wastes. This incredible scalability allows Sierra Energy to produce energy on a cost-per-kilowatt basis that is both profitable and competitive with current practices.

Although FASTOX™ works at larger scales than competing technologies, it works equally well at smaller scales to a customer’s existing waste streams.

Bringing New Life and a Green Future to Existing Infrastructure

Unlike competing technologies which require new construction, FASTOX™ is based on existing blast furnace technology, allowing Sierra Energy to create clean-energy facilities out of existing integrated steel mills—cleaning up and bringing new life to old iron making towns where shuttered blast furnaces have meant the loss of thousands of jobs.

Recycling Landfills

FASTOX™ is also unique in that it creates the opportunity for mining landfills for energy, allowing landfills to be restored to their original condition or to be converted to other more productive uses. Not only does this solve the worldwide landfill crisis, but this creates a renewable resource of energy by recycling otherwise unusable waste already taking up space in landfills.

Ending the world’s need for landfills also ends the ongoing emission from landfills of methane, CO2 and other harmful greenhouse gasses. Since methane is 22 times more harmful to the environment than CO2, this is a significant benefit. The increased material recovery enabled by FASTOX™ also reduces the need for the production of virgin materials, allowing more efficient and more complete recycling.