C-FFICIENCY SYSTEMS, INC. (CSI) develops and markets highly-efficient, decentralized energy production, conservation, and storage systems. Through innovative combinations of conventional and emerging technologies, and the efficient use of both natural and renewable resources, our systems provide:
- Improved energy economy from reduced costs for energy use and generation;
- Avoided costs of power purchased from utility & power companies;
- Renewable energy storage options for significant revenue creation; and,
- Increased efficiencies resulting from application of produced energy where and when it is needed.
CSI technologies are implemented in phases, take advantage of local resources and existing infrastructure and technologies, and are scalable to account for growth and demand at wherever they are located. The energy savings at each level of implementation allow for well-informed decisions on the right system for each customer. When appropriate, excess electric power may also be sold back into the grid to further enhance system economics.
In addition, virtually all of our systems contribute to significant cost reductions in the local production of NH3 (anhydrous ammonia) – vital component in agricultural production and profitability. Further, NH3 serves as an ideal medium for both generating and storing renewable energy in a readily-available form that can be used to operate farm and other industrial equipment, fuel for vehicles, peak electric power production and sale, or applied as fertilizer – all with a greatly reduced or, depending upon application, a near zero-carbon footprint.
CSI energy solutions are robust, scalable, self-supporting “micro-grids” targeted at high demand energy users that want meaningful reductions in energy costs, reliable independent energy supply security, and improved economic solutions to grid-based power.
CSI Technology Focus
21st Century Engine Efficiency Breakthroughs to Create Simple ‘Flowing’ Fuel Cells:
Decarbonized Alternative for Waste Gas – DAWG™ (Patent-Pending)
CSI’s ‘DAWG™’ system utilizes natural gas currently emitted (flared, wasted) from oil and gas operations worldwide to mechanically lift and store water. The water can then be used in a ‘pump and drop’ configuration to produce electric power and ultimately other useful products (including NH3). A significant reduction or elimination of CO2 emissions to the atmosphere results in association with power production.
“Next Level” Advances in Multi-Stage Cogeneration for 21st Century Efficiencies:
Thermal Poly Generation (Patent-Pending)
CSI’s Thermal Poly Generation (TPG) systems employ advanced proprietary heat transfer technologies to greatly improve conventional processes for capturing, converting, and re-using waste energy in agricultural and manufacturing applications to generate electricity and other useful products (including NH3). Renewable energy sources (solar, wind, biomass, waste-stream retorting, etc.) are preferred low CO2-emitting energy sources for excess heat harvested by CSI’s TPG. However, conventional natural resources and their related stages of heat-generating usage (internal combustion, power generation, etc.), also represent potent sources for application of TPG in additional energy production.
Renewable Energy Produced from Un-used, Un-productive Farmland:
Pivot Powering (Patent-Pending)
CSI’s Pivot Powering (PP) utilizes currently un-used land, in the form of non-irrigated ‘corners’ of center-pivot irrigation tracts, to produce low-cost, renewable electric power to pump water for irrigation and to conduct other agricultural and industrial operations at the site. Locally-available energy resources (solar, wind, biomass, municipal waste, others) combined with innovative energy production, storage and utilization technologies, increase efficiencies and reduce operating costs while reducing or eliminating CO2 emissions.
Isothermal Hydraulic Air Compression for Efficient Power and Cooling Generation
Linear Compressor (CLC) (Patent-Pending)
CSI’s Linear Compressor (CLC) is a hydraulic air compressor that uses gravity to compress atmospheric air in near-isothermal (constant temperature) conditions in a vertically downward flowing mixture of air and water in a closed-loop configuration. HACs can reduce the costs of supplying compressed air in many applications but have historically relied on the existence of a nearby water course. Key innovations of CSI’s Linear Compression (CLC) include the use of a closed-loop configuration so that no nearby water course is required. The closed-loop also allows greater control and management of pressures and temperature to maximize utilization of energy contained in the system. Once again – power generation with lower carbon emissions.
Modular, Portable Fluid Storage – ezContain™
CSI’s ezContain™ product for fluid storage – store potable water or hydrocarbons at less than 20 % of the cost of a steel or concrete tank. It is patented and ready to go. Frack water storage for petroleum industry operations, sewage containment, oil or petroleum storage, etc. Self-cleaning of sewage or dairy lagoons. Exclusive to CSI!
CSI Technology In Development
- Soil, water, biologic waste remediation via biologic agents
- Advanced solar array design and operation
- Cold loop de-salinization using ezContain™ (requires less energy input than heat source de salinization and can be solar or wind powered)
- Wellhead Kinetic Energy Production