Qualifying SynSel Modular Synthetic Biorefinery sites will be considered for the development of future Enviro Industrial Parks (EIP’s).  The plant would serve as the EIP anchor, and surrounding businesses would leverage the plant’s waste byproducts to create new value-added products and services. The sharing of infrastructure, inputs, and information resources would maximize SynSel’s economic, environmental, and social impact in the community. The EIP’s would further enhance community resilience through additional employment in construction, operations, maintenance, and servicing of these businesses and enhanced infrastructure. 

Targeted Sectors

Data storage, agriculture, food & beverage, and industrial manufacturing are just a few of the sectors to be targeted for inclusion in SynSel EIPs. One of the major draws for these businesses is the high availability of cost-effective energy in the form of waste heat. These high energy consuming businesses will realize improved economic performance through expense reduction.

• Data Centers: Excess plant waste heat can be leveraged by heat-to-cooling absorption chillers to significantly improve the operational expense profile of these data centers. The onsite production of biodiesel fuel and the high availability of onsite electricity can support Level 4 ultra-reliable data centers.

• Aquatic farms: Waste heat from the plant can make aquatic farming more economically feasible to raise fish, shrimp, oysters, and lobsters. The waste output from aquatic operations can be anaerobically digested to enhance the digester’s biogas production for additional EIP energy creation. The nutrients from this aquatic waste can be used downstream as fertilizers for greenhouse growing operations or sold in the market.

• Vertical Industrial Greenhouses: The high availability of biochar, ammonia water, waste heat, electricity, and carbon dioxide, from the SynSel plant can be leveraged to grow fruit and vegetables year-round.