Converting organic waste
into renewable energy.
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Recycle organic waste sustainably and reduce greenhouse
gas emissions with Pure Energy Group’s patented induced
bed reactor (IBR) Anaerobic Digester technology.
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Problem
Globally, one-third of our food goes to waste.‍

Food waste is the third most serious offender of global carbon dioxide emissions after the United States and China. Every year, 4.4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide from food waste fuels the devastating effects of global warming. But food waste is not the only culprit; the burning of fossil fuels represents 86% of CO2 emissions that cause greenhouse gases to build up and threaten our climate, health, and safety.

2019 was the second warmest year on record, and if we take no action to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, we can expect a 3-4°C increase in temperature. Global temperature increase is already intensifying natural disasters, costing millions of lives, trillions of dollars, and causing damage to the environment.

What WE CAN DO TOGETHER
Simplify food and agricultural waste management
to reduce emissions and slow global warming.

Streamline Waste Transportation
Instead of paying to transport food and agricultural waste and to dispose of that waste in a landfill, we can receive your organic waste directly into our anaerobic digestor facilities. We strive to ensure companies spend less on waste disposal transportation with our solution. In addition to cost savings, we help eliminate or reduce the emissions caused by waste transportation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated from decomposing waste.

Convert Waste to Renewable Energy
Once we receive the waste, we use patented and proprietary Induced Bed Reactor (IBR) technology to reduce the volume of total solids in the waste by as much as 60%.  In the process, we convert the waste into valuable resources: biogas, electricity, nutrient-rich liquid and solid organic fertilizer, as well as water that can be recycled back into the digestion process or used for irrigation.

IMPACT

A Cleaner, Healthier Planet

The EPA reports that biogas facilities like PEG’s IBR technology asbeing one of the best ways to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. If we fully realize the potential of biogas facilities across the U.S., they willpower 7.5 million American homes and reduce (CO2e) emissions by up to 73 million metric tons by 2030. (Source: Biogas Opportunities Roadmap Progress Report, Environmental and Energy Study Institute.)

PEG uses a carbon-neutral process to dispose of waste and contribute towards a significant reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Through the IBR process, we are able to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on average by 1 metric ton of (CO2e) for every 1 ton of organic waste we process. By partnering with us, companies are helping to:

  • Reduce landfill space taken up by food and other organic waste. Reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, approximately one-fifth of human-caused methane emissions come from landfill.
  • Free up farmland that is taken up by manure lagoons.
  • Kill 95% of all pathogens that are present in raw manures, preventing serious health and sanitation issues for both humans and animals from contamination of surface
    and groundwater.
  • Create biogas that we can use to fuel boilers as well as combined heat and power (CHP) generators to make electricity and heat.  
  • Create biomethane or renewable natural gas that can be injected into the national pipeline grid or used to fuel vehicles as an alternative to natural gas.
How It works

Anaerobic Digestion

A naturally occurring process through which bacteria break down organic matter.PEG focuses on digesting waste from the agricultural industry (ex. dairy ands wine operations), meat and poultry processors, the beverage industry, and commercial food processors. Our Induced Blanket Reactor (IBR)is designed to create a bacteria-rich environment within a sludge blanket that retains anaerobic bacteria. Feedstock passes through the blanket and is broken down by the bacteria. As the bacteria break down organic matter, they generate biogas. The biogas we generate is mostly composed of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2). Natural gas is primarily made up of Methane (CH4). We remove the non-methane components such as CO2 and H2S in the biogas, so the methane can be used as an energy fuel, replacing natural gas derived from fossil fuel. Purifying biogas from CO2 and H2S is necessary to improve the quality of the biogas, and make it environmentally friendly and safe. Typically PEG uses water scrubbing or PSA  (Pressure Swing Absorbtion ) to upgrade our biogas due to low cost and easy maintenance[BJ3]. Biogas production is carbon-neutral, which means this method of creating fuel does not add to greenhouse gas emissions. Also, any consumption of fossil fuels that is replaced by using biogas from our process will lower CO2 emissions.   Lastly, we can configure our systems to produce recoverable CO2 by-product in a liquid form. PEG sells liquid CO2 to the food industry, or captures the gaseous form of CO2 and sends it to greenhouses for plant farming. Adding this feature makes our process an almost zero emissions system, where all of the upgraded biogas is nearly pure methane (98%+) or pure CO2.

Markets

We Serve

PEG's modular IBRs are designed to be the most compact and efficient digesters in the industry and can be easily scaled to accommodate various waste volumes. Whether the application is agricultural, industrial, or commercial, PEG can provide an IBR technology platform of 1 to 25 digesters with all of the supporting infrastructure and controls automation to fit waste streams from 5 tons per day to 500 tons per day or more. PEG provides full facility operations and maintenance so that the IBR systems can become a set-it-and-forget-it solution.

Dairy and Swine Farms, Manure Management

PEG’s modular IBRs are designed to be the most compact and efficient digesters in the industry so that they can easily be scaled to accommodate various waste volumes.

Meat; Beef, Pork, Poultry, Fish

PEG’s modular IBRs are designed to be the most compact and efficient digesters in the industry so that they can easily be scaled to accommodate various waste volumes.

Grocery Distribution Centers

PEG’s modular IBRs are designed to be the most compact and efficient digesters in the industry so that they can easily be scaled to accommodate various waste volumes.

Juice and Beverage Industry

PEG’s modular IBRs are designed to be the most compact and efficient digesters in the industry so that they can easily be scaled to accommodate various waste volumes.

Large Facilities with Food Service

PEG’s modular IBRs are designed to be the most compact and efficient digesters in the industry so that they can easily be scaled to accommodate various waste volumes.

Dairy and Swine Farms; Manure Management
Meat; Beef, Pork, Poultry, Fish

Annual estimates show that in the U.S., livestock animals generate between 3 and 20 times more manure than sanitary waste from people. Manure volume can range from 2,800 tons to 1.6 million tons a year, depending on the type and quantity of animals. (Government Accountability Office). This that large farms can produce more waste than some U.S. cities. A feeding operation with 800,000 pigs could produce over 1.6 million tons of manure waste a year.

Groundwater can be contaminated by CAFO's (Confined Animal Feeding Operations).  That contamination is a result of runoff from land application of manure, leaching from the waste that has been improperly spread on land, or through leaks or breaks in storage or containment units. The EPA has found that 29 states specifically identified animal feeding operations, not just concentrated animal feeding operations, as contributing to health issues related to water quality impairment. PEG's modular IBRs are designed to process CAFO waste to produce renewable natural gas (RNG) as a fossil fuel replacement and are the most compact and efficient digesters in the industry and can easily be scaled to accommodate various waste volumes. PEG has seven global patents for converting organic material, including livestock manures into RNG and high-grade nutrient-rich, pathogen-free liquid fertilizer, and a nutrient-rich fiber material. These environmentally friendly by-products are a precious non-chemical, no- petroleum-based liquid fertilizer or fibrous soil amendments, conserving soil resources that are safe for crop field applications, and other beneficial uses.

The largest segment of U.S. agriculture is the meat and poultry industry. U.S. meat production totaled 52 billion pounds in 2017, and U.S. poultry production totaled 48 billion pounds in 2017. In 2017, American meat companies produced:

   * 26.3 billion pounds of beef
    * 25.6 billion pounds of pork
     * 5.9 billion pounds of turkey
     * 80.2 million pounds of veal
    * 150.2 million pounds lamb and mutton
   * 42.2 billion pounds of chicken

PEG's modular IBRs can be set up to process high strength residual waste from meat processing facilities, generating high levels of RNG production. The renewable natural gas created from the progressive acclimatization of the microbial communities and a methanogenic archaea rich medium is a fossil fuel replacement.

Grocery Distribution Centers
Juice and Beverage Industry
Large Facilities with Food Service

Food waste is defined by The United States Environmental Protection Agency as "uneaten food, food preparation wastes from residences and commercial establishments like grocery stores, restaurants, and produce stands, institutional cafeterias and kitchens, and industrial sources like employee lunchrooms." Food waste and or food loss is food that is wasted, lost, or uneaten. 1.3 billion tons of food either lost in fields and trucks or wasted in restaurants, supermarkets, and home kitchens, every year. The sources of food waste or loss are numerous and occur at the stages of producing, processing, retailing, and consuming. 95% of food scraps that get thrown out end up in landfills, where it gradually rots and releases methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Between the emissions associated with its production and its decay in landfills, food waste represents 4.4 billion metric tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions. 

Food production accounts for 13% of total carbon emissions. Approximately 40% of the food produced in the United States goes uneaten. That amounts to a staggering cost of more than $200 billion annually.  In the grocery sector alone, eliminating food waste is an essential step toward reducing unsustainable impacts on our food system, water, air, climate, and wildlife.  Although there are great efforts in place to reduce waste from all segments of food processors, this will take 15-20 years to achieve these reduction goals in a meaningful way. In the meantime, PEG's modular IBRs are also designed to process residual waste from all food waste generators successfully and are the most compact and efficient digesters in the industry and can easily be scaled to accommodate various waste volumes. PEG's systems are capable of converting this food waste into renewable natural gas as a fossil fuel replacement and significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Tech

Scalable and Efficient

PEG’s modular IBRs are designed to be the most compact and efficient digesters in the industry so that they can easily be scaled to accommodate various waste volumes. Whether the application is agricultural, industrial or commercial, PEG can provide an IBR technology platform of 1 to 25 digesters with all of the supporting infrastructure and controls automation to fit waste streams from 5 tons per day to 500 tons per day or more. PEG provides full facility operations and maintenance so that the IBR systems can become a set-it-and-forget-it solution.

Team

Brandon Julian

CEO

Brandon Julian is a skilled and highly successful entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in the US, Asia and Europe. He brings to PEG proven leadership, business savvy, and a keen insight into global markets. 

Under his leadership, PEG successfully acquired exclusive worldwide rights for the patented Anaerobic Digestion -IBR technology, and successfully built its first pilot demonstration system in California.

He also served as CEO of B. Julian Company, Inc. beginning in 1984 and served as a board member for Ampress Pacific Ltd. Hong Kong. These companies specialized in the design, product development, manufacturing and export of retail products, with gross revenues in excess of $50M - $100M annually.

Bruce Shuman

CFO

Bruce Shuman brings his expertise from all aspects of a large diversified waste and recycling company including development of strategies and growth initiatives, contract administration and overall senior management for Rainbow Environmental Services where he served 9 years as CEO and 8 years as CFO.

Mr. Shuman was responsible for all Company financial planning and financing institution relationships, IT functions; and relationships with major municipal customers. He achieved rate increases, contract term expansion and maintained a high level of relationship and customer satisfaction with municipal officials.

Larry Buckle

CTO

Jake Dustin is PEG’s senior environmental engineer and technical advisor. He holds a PhD in Civil/Environmental engineering and is a licensed engineer.

Jake brings to the team over 35 years of leadership and relevant technical experience, including a distinguished 25-year career in the US Air Force as a pilot, an engineer and a commander. His last post before retirement was as Executive Director of the Environmental Program for Air Mobility Command.

Mr. Dustin was also Program Manager with a major international Architectural and Engineering firm overseeing environmental contracts for the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy as well as co-founding Engineering Consulting firm specializing in Renewable Energy.

Jake Dustin

Senior Engineer

Larry Buckle Buckle has designed and managed large state-of-the-art municipal wastewater treatment plants, with biogas production to energy components.

In addition, Mr. Buckle has designed, patented, and managed very large mixed solid waste material recovery facilities (MRF) that include mining of organic material streams.

Mr. Buckle has procured more than $7M in grant funding to demonstrate innovative waste conversion technologies for plastics, food waste, green waste,and wastewater biosolids. Mr. Buckle has worked in more the 30 countries developing waste to energy plans, designs, and operations.

Contact us

Anaerobic digestion plays a big role in getting our world to zero emissions and preventing climate catastrophe, but we know we can't do it alone. Forming relationships with customers and partners who value the commercial readiness and industrial scalability of PEG technology is high priority.
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