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SEAB Energy Flexibuster™
The FLEXIBUSTER™ is an award-winning and patented waste-to-energy appliance to create renewable energy, water and fertiliser from organic waste onsite.
www.seabenergy.com
Sandra Sassow
Stage 4: Transition to Scale
The FLEXIBUSTER™ is containerised, factory-assembled, automated and remote monitored. It is easy to transport, install and operate. Our customers are Fortune 50 companies, hospitals, hypermarkets, non-profits and property developers.
Registered as a For-Profit in United Kingdom.
Focus Areas:
Biomass/BioFuel, Energy Efficiency and Waste Management
Implemented In:
United Kingdom, Portugal, United States and 1 MoreSEE ALL
4
Countries Implemented In
13
Customers
3
Employees
$6,000,000
Funds Raised to Date
Problem
Energy and waste are two of the biggest challenges facing urban areas around the world today. And let’s not forget how precious water is. Currently everything is handled in a large offsite facility. Waste is collected and transported to remote places or landfill sites for processing. Electricity is generated in large central facilities and transmitted across overloaded grid systems. And worldwide water is in short supply. SEaB Energy can solve all of these problems.
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Solution
SEaB Energy developed, patented and deployed award-winning, waste to power in a box, the FLEXIBUSTER™, ground-breaking technology to create renewable energy, water and fertiliser from organic waste, on-site. A FLEXIBUSTER™ can further reduce the sites' carbon footprint by taking waste disposal trucks and associated carbon emissions off the road, making significant savings in their waste disposal costs in the process.
Target Beneficiaries
SEaB Energy’s customer base includes business parks, university campuses, hospitals, non-profits, Fortune 50 businesses, multinational property developers and hypermarkets. Since commercialising the product in 2015, the FLEXIBUSTER™ has been successfully sold and installed at a number or sites around the world including the UK, Portugal, France and the US and has been included in a number of smart village initiatives as resource recovery solution for developing communities.
Mission and Vision
SEaB Energy’s FLEXIBUSTER™ was designed to disrupt the way we deal with waste and waste disposal. In the same way that the PC brought data processing power into our homes, the FLEXIBUSTER™ decentralises waste processing power and allows the customer to operate their own waste-to-energy generator using the waste on site as fuel. A significant part of SEaB Energy’s mission is to change how we globally think of waste: not as waste, but as a powerful resource.
Innovation Description
Our award-winning and patented FLEXIBUSTER™ allows businesses and communities to process their own organic waste on-site and convert it into green electricity, heat, water and fertiliser; a unique format helping sites to adhere to renewable energy objectives while reducing the need for diesel-consuming waste transportation. The systems are factory-assembled and housed in shipping containers, enabling quick and low-cost delivery and installation anywhere in the world. The fully automated control system and remote monitoring capability allow simple and safe operation. With the FLEXIBUSTER™, waste become a valuable fuel, and carbon emissions from landfill sites and waste transportation to centralised processors become a thing of the past.
Competitive Advantage
With SEaB Energy, we managed for the first time to pack the process of anaerobic digestion in a standardised, automated, modular and mobile piece of technology that allows true decentralised waste-to-energy processing. Though anaerobic digestion has been used to harvest resources from waste for many years at larger scale, the FLEXIBUSTER™ for the first time brings this process directly to the waste producers, allowing them to extract the valuable resources themselves and use these resources on the spot. The containerised packaging of the FLEXIBUSTER™ makes it quick and easy to transport and install, anywhere in the world.
Planned Goals and Milestones
The FLEXIBUSTER™ is designed to optimise the AD process, enabling high waste-to-biogas conversion rates. The limiting factor now is the biogas-to-electricity conversion: the current industry standard for the electrical efficiency of CHP units (Combined Heat and Power is 33%. Together with strategic partners, we are taking the first steps towards a next-generation CHP design that has high electrical efficiency (42% compared to current market standard of 33%).
| Funding Goal | 350,000 | |
| Projected Cumulative Lives Impacted | 15 | |
| New Implemented Countries | Australia, Nigeria, Korea, South, Japan, India, Uganda, South Africa | |
| Recruit | Control Systems Engineer, Onsite Site Delivery Management Relationship Management | |
| New Feature | Value Engineering for global outsourced manufacturing, Deployed system data management |
Milestones
Mar 2019
Recognition ReceivedPENDING
TITLEApplicant
Mar 2019
Sep 2018
Recognition ReceivedVERIFIED
Featured Solution
TITLEFeatured Solution
ORGANIZATIONSThe United Nations Foundation, Shift7The United Nations Foundation, Shift7
as part of
Solutions Summit 2018Solutions Summit 2018
Jun 2013
New Country Implemented In
United Kingdom
Apr 2011
Created
Date Unknown