Intellergy History

Intellergy has designed, built and operated steam reforming systems over two decades. These have been operated on a large variety of organic materials and waste streams including agricultural waste, solvent-contaminated air streams, liquid solvents, paint and partially full paint cans, plastics, municipal, medical, and pharmaceutical solid waste, and Kevlar, Gortex, printed circuit boards, and other military material.

Equipment has been delivered to Asia, Europe, and the US.  Systems have been operated in Arizona, Tennessee, Washington State, and California, where various organic feedstocks were converted. Intellergy’s work has received an award from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

One very successful line of operation involved the technology to process pharmaceutical waste. The facility that was set up accepted waste from roughly 85% of the pharmaceutical industry in the United States. This facility commercially processed around 100,000 pounds of pharmaceutical waste, destroying it and producing concentrated radio-isotopes under the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Store and Decay program.

Intellergy has been approved by the California Department of Health Services to destroy the most dangerous pathogens in medical waste. The technology has also been declared by the State of California Environmental Protection Agency as a non-incineration technology since there is no combustion involved. 

The work on solvent-contaminated air streams earned Intellergy important early patents and launched a company called Thermatrix via an IPO. This company was recently purchased by Linde for international applications.  The work on mixed solid waste streams also led us to form Synthetica, which subsequently earned many patents for the steam reforming chemistry and process equipment.   Later, Synthetica was sold to Westinghouse/SEG. 

For years, rotary systems were operated at a facility in Richmond, California, under permit from the Bay Area Air Quality District.

In 2003, Intellergy launched Medergy, a 50-50 joint venture with Anshen+Allen, the largest healthcare architecture and design company in the world.

In addition, Intellergy has steam reformed agricultural waste, and done proximate analysis, detailed gas composition analysis, and Gibbs Free energy analysis of the gases produced.