Turn Waste Into Fuel For Your Car With Epiphergy!
Remember that scene from Back To The Future II where Doc Brown pulls into Marty McFly’s driveway and rummages through the trash to find old banana peels and beer to use as “fuel” for the Delorean time machine? Running a car on garbage back in 1989 when the film was released, might have been nothing more than science-fiction at the time, but with advances in today’s technology it has become a reality….
introducing…
e·piph·er·gy –noun
- a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of green fuel production, usually initiated by environmental friendliness.
Epiphergy (think epiphany + energy) implements waste-to-ethanol solutions that allow consumers to produce and use their own ethanol fuel from every day food-waste materials. Ethanol can be used as a low-cost, environmentally friendly alternative to gasoline in most spark-ignition engines, including vehicles & backup generators, as well as modified diesel engines and certain heating applications.
Founded in 2007, with headquarters in Rochester, NY, Epiphergy’s economic, environmental, and social goals are to:
- Reduce the cost of transportation fuels
- Cut CO2 emissions
- Improve air quality
- Reduce our foreign trade deficit
- Create jobs
How do you run your car on every day food waste you ask? Well with an easy to install Fuel Flex ethanol conversion kit, and an E-Fuel MicroFueler, almost any standard gas powered machine can run on a gas/ethanol mixture. By using a gas/ethanol mixture, not only are lower emissions emitted into the air, but you’re also able to reduce the amount of money that you pour into your gas tank each week.
The E-Fuel MicroFueler can produce up to 75 gallons of high-quality ethanol fuel each week from food wastes that are high in molasses, dry sugar, grains, and many cellulosic materials. This is a perfect application for places like breweries, bars, restaurants, and food processing companies, which discard large quantities of alcohol and/or sugars on an almost daily basis. Not only are they saving money on gas but converting these typical “waste” items into ethanol, but they also save money on things like sewer & waste disposal.
How It Works:
Step One: The feedstock/E‐Fuel yeast mix or discarded liquor are loaded through the fermentation tank door opening.
Step Two: The user activates the LCD micro control panel for either fermentation (for feedstock) or distillation (for discarded liquor) mode to begin the MicroFueler ethanol production process.
Step Three: Load weight sensors measure and determine the appropriate amount of water to flow into the tank for proper fermentation. As the fermenting sugar begins its natural ethanol conversion process, high tech ceramic cooler and heater devices under the micro control system maintain the temperature conducive for ethanol fermentation.
Step Four: The completed dilutive ethanol mix is transferred to the distillation system for alcohol water separation. First separation occurs by vaporizing the mix in a vertical column tube which is then transferred to a membrane system for final alcohol separation.
Step Five: After both purified water and alcohol exit, the membrane distillation system sends the liquids to be cooled before entering their completed storage containers. The ethanol is now ready to be pumped into the customer’s vehicle using the pump operation.
The MicroFueler will convert sugar feedstock into ethanol in approximately one week (the quality of the sugar will affect the fermentation time). Alcohol, on the other hand, will convert to ethanol in a matter of hours.
For more information on how to eco-pimp your ride visit www.epiphergy.com