Greenhouseheating
Controlled-environment agriculture runs on heat year-round. Reactor heat can displace boiler load directly, with electricity as the secondary output.
Outputs / Energy
Thermal energy
on demand.
The Aluminum-Water Reactor produces thermal energy as its primary output.
Use it directly as process heat, convert it to electricity, or both.
What comes off the reaction
Heat first.
The reaction between aluminum and water is exothermic. It produces continuous, controllable thermal energy, available as steam or hot water depending on site configuration.
Most generation technologies produce electricity and treat heat as loss. The Aluminum-Water Reactor produces heat and lets the site decide what to do with it. Where a facility already needs process heat, direct use avoids conversion losses.
How the reactor worksHow it is used
Where the heat goes.
Every site is different. What does not change is that heat used as heat is worth more than heat converted to electricity.
Industrial processheat
Drying, curing, sterilization, and food and beverage processing. Continuous steam demand can take reactor output without a conversion step.
District andcampus heating
Institutional sites with existing hot-water or steam loops can connect without redesigning the distribution system.
Remote andoff-grid sites
Where heat and power both have to be trucked in as diesel, one modular system covers both.
Scale
Add capacity when
you need it.
One barrel is one 2MW module, containerized to a standard footprint. Capacity adds in standard modules, designed to minimize redesign of the base installation.
2MW
A single factory-built module.
+2MW
Modules added as site demand grows.
n MW+
Capacity adds in standard modules, designed to minimize redesign of the base installation.
Specifications
Site-configured energy.
| Thermal output per module | 1 MW* |
|---|---|
| Steam temperature and pressure* | Pending validation |
| Electrical output if converted* | Pending validation |
| Availability / capacity factor* | Pending validation |
| Turndown range* | Pending validation |
| Water consumption | ~4,700 MT/yr (~13 m³/day)† |
| Emissions | Near-zero (direct, reaction)* |
| Footprint per module | 1,000 sq ft* |
| Time to commission | 12–24 months |
* Estimates pending validation at the Hamilton facility. Emissions exclude lifecycle and auxiliary emissions.
† Annualized quantities are modeled estimates pending validation.
