Current Focus
Our Challenges
- Preventing Renewable Grid Collapse & Blackouts
- Reducing Greenhouse Gases & other Emissions
- Reducing the Costs of Current Technologies
Our Solutions
- VAST Ultra-clean FastRamp™ Turbine Provides:
- Profitable Rapid Backup Power
- Higher Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
- 20% higher efficiency than Peakers
- VAST TriFluid Combustor
- 17% Lower CO2 than Peakers
- Lowest NOx & CO – Without Catalysts or SCR
The Market
- Driven by Rapid Mandated Growth of Renewable Power
- Storage is Expensive with Duration
- Driven by Rapid Emerging Market Growth Globally
Our Breakthrough Technologies
Ultra-low NOx and CO Emissions
- Expect Best Available Control Technology (BACT)
- 17% Lower CO2 by Higher Efficiency
Best in Class Economic Performance
- Higher IRR than Combined Cycle & Peakers as Renewables Increase
- VAST Outperforms Peakers & Combined Cycle (1:1) Turbines when Utilization Drops Below 70% Full Capacity
- Higher Efficiency & Lower Emissions at Part Load
Ground-breaking FastRamp™ Turbine
- Designed for sub-10 minute Dispatch Ramp Rate
- “Spinning Reserve” with Lower Emissions
- Reduces Turbine Thermal Cycle Fatigue and Costly Maintenance
Multi-fuel Capability – Natural Gas, Biogas, Hydrogen, Ammonia, Diesel, Methanol, Biofuels, etc.
Clean Air Mandates Require ~95% Lower Gas Turbine Emissions
- VAST Power Technologies:
- Eliminate SCR* Catalysts – 5% of Gas Turbine Capital Cost
- Eliminate SCR Ammonia Operating Cost and Risks
- Lower Emissions from Rapid Start-up & Pilot Flames
- Eliminate Startup Emissions Plumes
- Designing for Hydrogen & Ammonia with Below Mandated NOx Levels
- Proprietary Design Refined via Department of Energy Grant
- VAST Designed Combustor with > 100 Model Parameters
- Manufactured via 3D Printing /Additive Manufacturing
- Argonne National Lab Supercomputer Modeled VAST Combustion
- 16,000,000 Core Hours of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Lawrence Livermore Lab Modeled Major Design Configurations
- Optimized Parameters via Neural Networks & Deep Machine Learning
- VAST Designed Combustor with > 100 Model Parameters
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