Natural Gas Cleansing
To date Tenoroc’s primary development effort has been directed toward the condensation based separation of carbon dioxide from methane (natural gas) to create a means to capitalize on the substantial natural gas reserves deemed too contaminated with carbon dioxide and/or hydrogen sulfide to be economically viable.Read More
Isotope Enrichment
Tenoroc’s gas-to-gas nozzle technology has several potential applications. The gas-to-gas application of greatest interest to Tenoroc is isotope enrichment, including the production of isotopically pure silicon used to produce semiconductor wafers.Read More
Development And Prototype
Tenoroc researchers are currently working with a two-component mixture of nitrogen and carbon dioxide as a test gas to aid in developing the separation nozzle design in a laboratory facility.Read More
Trade Articles
Separation technologies recover, isolate, and purify products in virtually every industrial process. Pervasive throughout industrial operations, conventional separation processes are energy intensive and costly. Separation processes represent 40 to 70 percent of both capital and operating costs in industry.Read More
Technological Breakthrough
The technology presents a unique opportunity to capitalize on the intense need to develop new energy sources, while exploiting the clean energy revolution. Tenoroc’s technology, however, was not designed as “Clean Technology” to replace polluting technologies. Tenoroc believes its technology has far greater benefit than simply being “greener.” Tenoroc’s development effort is rooted in a desire to do what others cannot do, for example, to cost effectively cleanse natural gas reserves which remain untapped because of high levels of CO2 and/or hydrogen sulfide contamination, and to allow for the production of isotopically pure semiconductor material thereby overcoming the debilitating effects of heat build-up that occurs in today’s computers. While the Tenoroc technology is truly “green”, the timing of Tenoroc’s work with the phenomenon of a worldwide call for clean and green technology is strictly a fortunate coincidence.