PowerVerde, Inc. (PowerVerde) focuses on the development and commercialization of clean energy electric power generation systems to produce electrical power with zero emissions or waste byproducts.

The company has manufactured, retrofitted or purchased from third party manufacturers, different expanders and related generation equipment. The company has been testing these devices on an advanced organic rankine cycle system referred to as the Liberator. The company has also built and tested a 100kilowatt pressure-driven motor at another machining and manufacturing facility, Global Machine Works, in Arlington, Washington. These two related but distinct systems are designed for two different markets. The 25/50kilowatt system uses low-grade heat source (waste heat) as a fuel source, expanding a working fluid thereby driving the expander/generator, while the 100kilowatt system (without organic rankine cycle) uses wasted energy (pressure) from natural gas pipeline or wellhead infrastructures to drive the motor/generator and create electric power. Certain of the company’s non-combustion expanders are fueled by heat (waste heat), through an organic rankine cycle related system, and create a pressure source powering the PowerVerde expander/generator while emitting zero carbon emissions or waste stream byproducts. The other PowerVerde system, designed to operate on wellhead or natural gas pipeline infrastructure, lacks the organic rankine cycle component, but includes a pressure cycle known as the Wet Steam Cycle using the company’s licensed planetary-style expander.

The company’s organic rankine cycle system requires a heat source (solar, waste heat, geothermal or bio-mass); an organic rankine cycle or Wet Steam Cycle style system to convert heat into pressure; PowerVerde expander to convert the pressure into horsepower; and a generator to convert the horsepower into electricity. Its Wet Steam Cycle system requires pressure source, such as gas wellhead; a planetary expander; and an off-the-shelf commodity boiler to create heated steam.

Patents

The company owns an U.S. Patent application No. 12/253,580 for a ‘low temperature organic rankine cycle system’. The company owns all rights to U.S. Patent Application No. 12,749,416 filed on March 29, 2010, entitled ‘Solar Photovoltaic Closed Fluid Loop Evaporation Tower’.

History

PowerVerde, Inc., a Delaware corporation, was founded in 2007 by George Konrad and Fred Barker.