Pathway A
Methanation
Convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into synthetic methane for energy storage, gas-grid applications, and distributed fuel production.
Distributed energy infrastructure
Energy, made anywhere.
PromX is building modular plasma micro-refineries that turn wasted energy streams into useful fuels and materials—at the source, on demand, without the scale and rigidity of a traditional refinery.
Built for a world that needs more energy, more resilience, and less waste.
PLASMA METHANATION · MOLECULAR VIEW
The problem
The world doesn’t only have an energy shortage.
It has an energy-location problem.
Vast amounts of energy are stranded, flared, curtailed, or wasted because they exist in the wrong place, at the wrong time, or in the wrong form. Conventional refining infrastructure was not built to capture it.
The PromX platform
Refining moves from centralized megaprojects to modular infrastructure.
Our approach combines plasma chemistry, catalysis, sensing, and software into compact systems designed to transform local waste streams into higher-value molecules.
01 — CAPTURE
Use what is already there.
Waste gases, stranded molecules, and underused electricity become feedstocks instead of liabilities.
02 — CONVERT
Rebuild molecules locally.
Plasma-driven chemistry enables flexible conversion pathways inside modular reactors.
03 — DEPLOY
Put refining where the resource is.
Small modular systems can be deployed closer to landfills, industrial sites, remote assets, and distributed energy systems.
Old model
Move resources to the refinery.
Stranded / waste resource
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Collection + transport
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Large centralized processing
PromX model
Move the refinery to the resource.
Waste / stranded energy stream
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PromX modular micro-refinery
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Useful fuels + materials
One platform. Multiple pathways.
A micro-refinery designed to do more than one thing.
PromX is developing a flexible reaction platform so the same distributed infrastructure can target different products as markets, feedstocks, and energy availability change.
Pathway B
Methane pyrolysis
Split methane into hydrogen and solid carbon—creating pathways to lower-carbon hydrogen and valuable carbon products.
Pathway C
Carbon upgrading
Explore direct upgrading routes from simple carbon molecules toward higher-value hydrocarbons and chemical intermediates.
ModularScale by adding units
LocalProcess at or near the source
FlexibleMultiple reaction pathways
Software-ledSense, log, optimize, orchestrate
Where it fits
Built for energy that is too small, remote, intermittent, or inconvenient for legacy infrastructure.
Landfills & biogas
Upgrade distributed methane-rich streams closer to where they are produced instead of relying only on centralized downstream infrastructure.
Industrial waste gases
Turn emissions and off-gases into feedstocks for new molecules and new value streams.
Curtailed renewables
Use low-cost or otherwise-wasted electricity to manufacture storable molecules when power is abundant.
Remote & resilient energy
Create more independent local energy systems by producing fuels and chemical energy closer to demand.
The mission
STEP ONE: STOP WASTING ENERGY.
STEP TWO: MAKE ENERGY ABUNDANT EVERYWHERE.
Our long-term goal is straightforward: make synthetic fuels economically competitive with fossil fuels, then make them wherever energy and feedstocks are available. Not one giant refinery—millions of intelligent, distributed ones.