Cogent Energy Systems

Cogent Energy Systems is a company that develops proprietary technologies that effectively converts local waste into sustainable and clean energy.

There are millions of small-scale waste producers worldwide, who lack a viable way to process their waste on-site. Cogent's Heliostorm can help even the small and remote communities and enterprises to eliminate their waste stream on-site while generating surplus energy that they can sell or use.

Heliostorm is Cogent's core innovation in the process of ionic Gasification. It processes any type of waste or feedstock including biomass, municipal solid waste, Hazardous and toxic waste, and plastics.

It uses a "molecular approach" to the conversion of feedstock.

• The core of the reaction zone is observed with a hyper-high temperature of 10,000 degree Celsius, that is 5 to 15 times hotter than other conversion processes such as incineration, traditional gasification, and pyrolysis.
• At high temperatures, carbon vaporizers and completely breaks down into gaseous carbon atom.
• When immersed in the Ionic Gasification Region, the waste spontaneously breaks down to individual atoms, resulting in complete one-step conversion to clean synthesis gas (syngas) with virtually no by-products, long-chain hydrocarbons, contaminants, or harmful elements.
• In addition to the extreme temperatures and electrically-active Ionic processing zone, the HelioStorm Gasifier's stacked modular design provides a cascading energy effect. This allows downstream modules to benefit from the energy in upstream modules, lowering the system's input electricity requirements and increasing the surplus electricity yield.

The clean syngas can be utilized to generate electricity, liquid fuels, hydrogen, and valuable chemicals. A system using the HelioStream can serve as a primary or secondary source of power for a stable microgrid.

One Heliostorm-based WTE system is capable to convert 4 tons of waste every day into approximately 3 MWh of available surplus energy.

Development of the Gasifier was supported by the U. S. Navy, the U. S. Department of Energy, and multiple U. S. National Laboratories. The system can be used by Farms, Hospital, Industrial Parks, Military Installations, Mining sites, and Remote Communities.