Political and Regulatory Attitudes

The City of Lexington, the region, and the public are very interested in the performance of hospital waste incinerators and their emissions. Incinerators and auto-clave/microwave methods and systems have been increasingly coming under fire for poor performance, high costs, and emissions violations. The time is right for a true recycling technology that will eliminate emissions from waste destruction and also provide clean fuel for other uses. A coalition of academic, government, and private industry partners building a hydrogen economy in the Lexington area would be a success story that other communities would emulate. In fact, the success and media attention being received by a similar initiative in California is all out of proportion to its size.

Implementation

TriEco developed the initial concept of multiple income stream hydrogen production and asked the University of Kentucky to participate in the project by researching how to optimize the hydrogen production process. TriEco plans to sign agreements with the University of Kentucky to work collaboratively to identify available renewable hydrogenous feedstocks and the most efficient and available means to process them to produce hydrogen. Technologies will be identified, evaluated, and rated. Based on this process, TriEco will pursue commercial development of a hydrogen production system.

Once the system is in operation, TriEco and the University will continue to optimize the system's operation for economic hydrogen production. The University of Kentucky will collaborate and jointly perform research and publish findings in journals and professional symposiums. The proceeds from any royalties derived from exploiting intellectual property developed during this process will be reasonably distributed between the parties based on prior agreements.