TAKEnergy Inc.

🚀 NGIF Accelerator is proud to announce the successful completion of the RadMax Technologies, Inc. and TAKEnergy Inc. project: Electrical Power Generation with Natural Gas Expander. This pilot project has proven the feasibility of the RadMax Expander-Generator (RXG) as a solution for reducing methane emissions at natural gas wellheads and pressure letdown stations—all while generating clean electrical power. Why it matters: - Lowers operational costs. - Creates alternative source of energy. - Boosts energy efficiency. - Aligns with cleaner energy goals and regulatory standards. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gUrYx_Cs 🤝 Industry Grants Participants and Project Partners: ATCO | Birchcliff Energy Ltd. | Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) | PETRONAS | Tourmaline Oil Corp John Adams | Akhil Abat, B.Tech, MBA | James Cleland | Iftikhar-(Iftik)- Huq, PhD (Caltech), PEng, PMP | Ashutosh Pohary | Rosalby Guerrero-Mesia | Ali Ali | Jose Beleno | #InnovationInAction #EnergyEfficiency #NaturalGas #CleanTech #NGIFAccelerator

Big thanks to TAKEnergy Inc. and RadMax Technologies, Inc. for touring the ATCO Gas Technology Development team today! It's been fantastic to host your turboexpander at ATCO's Gate Station in Calgary and I can't wait to see the technology TAKEnergy off 🚀 and to watch the market expand (bad puns... I'm sorry to everyone who reads this) Great work Michael Leung & Shayne Dunbar on seeing this project through, and thanks to NGIF Capital for the support! #energy #technology #efficiency Notes for Nerds Turboexpanders use high pressure gas to spin a turbine and generate electricity. To generate a joule of electric energy, the equivalent energy must be taken out of the gas (i.e. the gas must do "work"), resulting in the loss of both pressure and temperature. Simply: gas in -> electricity + lower pressure/colder gas out To increase power of the system (i.e. generate MORE energy per second), cut more pressure (i.e. higher DP across the turbine), flow more gas through the expander, or both! While turboexpanders may not be a good fit everywhere (high pressure gas is often high pressure for a reason), they hold great potential for locations that have a requirement for a consistent pressure drop. Enter natural gas gate stations! At gate stations, ATCO takes high pressure gas (typically ~2500-9000 kPa) from the natural gas transmission system, and reduces the pressure for distribution to homes and businesses (<700 kPa). Every municipality has at least one gate stations, and larger cities have many! These gate stations reduce pressure each and every day of the year - does that sound like a consistent source of electricity? In addition to reliability, because it's "simply" an in-line turbine with no combustion, the electricity is emissions free at the point of generation! Not all turboexpanders systems will be "net-zero" (depends on many factors, where you draw the box, and ability to control some variables), but at worst, turboexpanders will still significantly outperform combined cycle generation (the cleanest, dispatchable, marginal electron in many grids in North America). If that all sounds pretty good, why aren't they everywhere? Well things are typically a little more complex than politicians and LinkedIn posts would have you believe 😉 In the case of Turboexpanders, there are lots of questions and considerations: fluctuating DP, seasonal flow rates, thermal management, electric demands, economics, policy frameworks, and the interplay between the gas and electric system, to name a few. But thanks to the work of pioneering companies like TAKEnergy, and the exciting results we've seen, many of those questions can be answered! I'll close with a big congrats to the team. Successful technology pilots always remind me that our future is bright and clean - it can just take a little time to sort out the physics! TAKEnergy: James Cleland, Chester Nagy, T.M. Gunderson CC Waylon Helman, Jeremy Miles, Parsa Amini, Justin Pullukatt, Erik Barrett