The agricultural sector generates significant amounts of organic waste materials, such as animal manure, food waste and crop residues. While this waste provides a reliable and abundant feedstock for renewable natural gas (RNG) production, the capital costs and operational challenges of building biogas facilities, processing small feedstock flows and abating methane emissions from animal agriculture has left this renewable energy source largely under-utilized. The Canadian biogas industry is only utilizing 13% of the available biogas resources, leaving our biogas industry room to grow 8x.
Hydron Energy Inc. is building technology to improve the economics and scalability of upgrading biogas to RNG.
With NorthX funding support, Hydron is developing and field testing a small-scale gas separation system. Modeled after their proven platform technology, the INTRUPTor™ Mobile unit unlocks smaller, on-site biomass feedstocks and enables RNG production and utilization in areas without direct access to natural gas pipelines. The resulting RNG has negative carbon intensity and zero methane emissions. This technology is a critical step in bridging feedstock producers with RNG companies and bringing costs closer to those of natural gas production.
Thanks to NorthX funding, Hydron has accelerated its pilot testing and commercialization program to deliver INTRUPTor™ to the market this year. Hydron’s patented system significantly lowers the cost of RNG and enables the deployment of mobile plants for small-scale biogas producers – with the best-in-class carbon intensity score.
