What we do

Clean Energy Project Development and Design. We bring the projects, people, and technologies together, including municipal waste haulers, communities, and appropriate technologies at the landfill, then assess the needs of the landfill, feedlot, animal or food processing plant, greenhouse, or wastewater treatment plant to determine what co-gen facility or integrated biorefinery concept would work best for the site to maximize the value of available waste feedstocks. Design options possibly can include fermentation or gasification of municipal solid waste with thermocatalytic conversion to fuels, digestion or gasification of manure, tapping of landfill gas, solar thermal energy, geothermal, algae cultivation and carbon sequestration, power generation, or other technologies.

After working with project developers and site owners to determine best integrated biorefinery design for the site and feedstock available, Symbios works to develop the project with local, county, state, and federal economic development officials, acting as the technology aggregator to determine, via Symbios’ proprietary Visual Basic-based modeling software, what economic leverage points exist for the project that require further technology improvements vs. off-the-shelf technologies, such as manure handling systems or feedstock-specific catalysts.

New Technology Commercialization. Symbios then works with Colorado State University and other C2B2 institutions and industry partners to develop and establish licensing agreements for the new technology, conducting Phase I and II reports based on the techno-economic modeling to establish capital and operating costs and evaluate feasibility. Symbios also works with CSU and other C2B2 institution graduate students to develop pro formas and business plans. When the improved technology is ready for a Phase III pilot trial, Symbios works with manufacturing companies and EPC contractors to build skid-mounted facilities that can be slip-streamed in with existing facilities in order to test the improved technology and incorporate it in with the overall system, testing the economic advantage the technology is hoped to provide.

Summary List of Services.

Project design for industrial symbiosis, e.g. co-gen facilities for greenhouse operations using anaerobic digestion of nearby manure sources. Self-maintaining, self-renewing projects that transcend individual operations to interconnect with environment and other industry.

o Feasibility analysis
o Techno-economic modeling
o Engineering design, custom integrated biorefinery design

Project development, including capital sourcing, new startups, business plans, financial modeling, assembling due diligence materials, technology deployment, RPS compliance, offtakes, land acquisition, identification and negotiation with commercial partners, strategic advising, carbon and renewable energy credits management.

Research & development, including Phase I and II SBIR, DARPA, BAA, technology development and commercialization, pilot projects, techno-economic modeling, intellectual property portfolio management, development of IP to deploy in commercial projects, and proposal writing for government grants and contracts.