ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
Headwaters’ Energy Technologies is developing and deploying breakthrough technologies that improve natural resource utilization. Headwaters Energy Technologies’ coal cleaning businesses add value to coal by upgrading waste coal into a marketable product. By converting coal into liquid fuels and utilizing waste heat from coal-fired ethanol production power plants, Headwaters Energy Technologies’ businesses remain industry leaders in technological advancements for cleaner burning liquid fuels from coal, improved refinery efficiencies and emissions, and the production of new generations of nanocatalysts.
Headwaters Energy Services
Headwaters Energy Services creates consumable clean coal products from waste coal produced in the United States. Headwaters Energy Services successfully operates Dry Coal Cleaning and Waste Coal Fines Recovery facilities that produce clean coal products from the billions of tons of waste coal produced annually from mining activities in the United States. When the Section 29 IRS code sunsetted in 2007, Headwaters transitioned its existing coal cleaning business while constructing 11 coal cleaning facilities located in 5 states.
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HTI
HTI is a world leader of unique catalysts and technologies that provide energy products from low-value feedstocks. Our core technology — the HCAT® Process — is a proprietary and patented method for hydrocracking heavy residual oil. We also offer unique coal-to-liquids conversion technologies and hold patents on a broad range of nanotechnology-based catalysts and catalytic processes. Common technological features are energy efficiency and “green chemistry” which avoids unwanted byproducts and has low environmental impact. HTI’s diversified facility includes analytical laboratories, pilot-scale catalyst manufacturing equipment and process modeling capabilities in addition to the pilot plant operating units; all which meet, or exceed, environmental and safety standards.
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Blue Flint Ethanol
Blue Flint Ethanol is the world’s first co-located, directly integrated ethanol plant. It is a joint venture between Great River Energy and Headwaters and is a model plant for coal and nuclear fueled power plants and other industrial facilities producing large amounts of steam. The plant’s production, which began in 2007, uses waste heat from steam generated at Great River Energy’s nearby Coal Creek Station to process 18 million bushels of corn into 50 million gallons of ethanol per year.
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