Pathway A
Methanation
Convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into synthetic methane for distributed fuel production and gas-grid applications.
Distributed refining infrastructure
Fuel, made anywhere.
PromX is building ultra-low-cost autonomous plasma micro-refineries that turn wasted electricity and carbon-rich streams into saleable fuels and materials at the source. The long-term goal: make clean synthetic fuels cheaper than fossil fuels.
First step: stop wasting energy. Endgame: energy abundance.
PLASMA METHANATION · MOLECULAR VIEW
The problem
Today’s industrial revolution is waiting on energy abundance.
But energy infrastructure is still fragile and concentrated.
Usable electricity and carbon-rich gases are routinely flared, curtailed, or stranded because centralized infrastructure cannot economically reach them. PromX starts by monetizing that waste.
Our solution
Bring the refinery to the resource.
PX-1 is an autonomous plasma micro-refinery for landfills, biogas and industrial sites that converts wasted electricity and carbon-rich streams into saleable fuels and materials on-site.
01 — BEACHHEAD
Start where waste already has a market.
Landfills, biogas and industrial sites already lose value when energy is stranded, flared or under-monetized.
02 — CONVERT
Turn waste into valuable products.
Plasma-assisted modular pathways convert local carbon and energy streams into saleable fuels, hydrogen, carbon products and hydrocarbon feedstocks.
03 — DEPLOY
Scale with manufactured modules.
PX-1 is designed for distributed, customer-funded deployment, with a target hardware cost below $20K per module.
Old model
Move resources to the refinery.
Wasted / stranded energy
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Gathering + transport
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Large centralized refinery
PromX model
Move the refinery to the resource.
Local waste energy stream
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PX-1 micro-refinery
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Saleable fuels + materials
PX-1 technology
One platform. Multiple molecular pathways.
PX-1 combines plasma-catalysis, controls, sensing and software in a modular architecture. Different pathway modules target different products while sharing the same distributed platform, controls and operating logic.
Pathway B
Methane pyrolysis
Split methane into hydrogen and solid carbon, creating two valuable products from a carbon-rich feedstock.
Pathway C
Hydrocarbon upgrading
Develop plasma-assisted coupling and upgrading pathways from methane toward higher-value hydrocarbons and chemical intermediates.
Market
A focused beachhead into a massive market.
Landfills & biogas
Start where wasted energy already has clear economic value and existing infrastructure: landfills and biogas.
Industrial wasted energy
Expand into carbon-rich industrial streams and under-monetized energy resources.
Curtailed renewables
Use low-cost or otherwise-wasted electricity to manufacture storable energy molecules when power is abundant.
Global synthetic fuels
Long-term: combine abundant clean energy, water and carbon to make fuels wherever they are needed.
The endgame
STEP ONE: STOP WASTING ENERGY.
STEP TWO: MAKE ENERGY ABUNDANT EVERYWHERE.
We intend to collapse today’s fragmented, capital-intensive synthetic-fuel chain into low-cost distributed production. The end state is simple: clean synthetic fuels that are cheaper, more resilient and more widely producible than fossil fuels.