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Three key routes to decarbonisation
RiPR’s outputs address three distinct markets, each facing a different barrier to decarbonising.
- Alternative fuels such as bio-methanol – providing low-carbon feedstocks for bio-methanol, meeting shipping’s toughest decarbonisation challenge
- Waste streams – turning disposal costs into on-site energy from difficult, hard-to-treat feedstocks
- Industrial energy – a drop-in replacement for fossil gas in existing industrial heat and power
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Alternative fuels: Maritime methanol
Maritime shipping is one of the hardest sectors to decarbonise, with few scalable low-carbon fuel options available today. RiPR’s gas outputs can be used as feedstocks required to synthesise bio-methanol, a leading candidate for the shipping industry’s transition away from fossil bunker fuel.
Equisera is exploring how RiPR could support the decarbonisation of coastal shipping, working with partners across the maritime and logistics sector to assess the viability of a low-carbon methanol supply model for vessel operators. This includes early-stage work on how a RiPR-based production model could integrate with existing port infrastructure and vessel operations to establish a scalable, commercially viable green shipping route in the UK.
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Transforming waste into an asset
Every year, vast quantities of wet, mixed and hard-to-treat organic waste are landfilled or incinerated because no existing technology can process them economically. Landfill tax continues to rise, energy-from-waste capacity is constrained by minimum throughput requirements, and anaerobic digestion cannot handle contaminated or high-water-content streams.
RiPR processes these difficult feedstocks as-is, without pre-drying or pre-sorting, converting a disposal cost into an on-site energy asset. For waste producers – food and drink manufacturers, agricultural and healthcare operators – this eliminates gate fees and supports scope 3 reporting. For waste handlers and local authorities, it offers a higher-value recovery route as legacy energy-from-waste contracts approach expiry, with modular sizing that suits sites too small for conventional plants.
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Decarbonising industrial heat and power
High-temperature industrial heat is one of the hardest energy uses to decarbonise. Electrification is uneconomic at these temperatures, and hydrogen blending above 20% has no confirmed grid timeline before 2030 – leaving manufacturers with rising carbon costs and no credible near-term pathway.
RiPR’s biomethane is a drop-in replacement for fossil gas, working directly in existing burners, boilers and kilns with no process modification. Brick, ceramics, glass, cement and chemical manufacturers can begin cutting emissions and exposure to rising carbon costs immediately, using assets they already own – with biochar co-products offering some sectors an additional revenue stream.
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Closing the gap
The connection between these markets is timing. In each one, the obligations have arrived ahead of the technology. RiPR closes that gap from a single platform, turning waste that has nowhere else to go into fuels that work in the infrastructure our customers already own.
Feedstock Flexibility
Our Rising Pressure Reformer (RiPR) technology is compatible with a wide range of biogenic material. This feedstock adaptability – combined with the need for minimal preparation – gives it significant advantages over alternative methods. For example, it is compatible with wet feedstocks and even waste streams, opening up a whole range of possibilities, as well as decreasing transport and processing costs.
RiPR Technology
Unlike green hydrogen produced through electrolysis, our RiPR reactors have no requirement for large amounts of green electricity and can even operate without a mains grid connection. And the efficiency of the process, which uses a fraction of the energy to sustain itself, means biomethane and hydrogen at a competitive price is achievable.
Outputs
RiPR produces a controlled mixture of clean gases alongside solid carbon in the form of biochar. The gas stream can be used directly for energy applications or separated into its component gases, including hydrogen, biomethane and biogenic carbon dioxide, depending on end-use requirements.
Because the process generates very low levels of tars and contaminants, gas cleaning is minimal, reducing complexity and operating costs. Where gas separation is applied, carbon dioxide can be efficiently captured for use or storage, while hydrogen and biomethane are delivered as high-quality fuels for industrial, grid and transport applications. These gases can also be used as feedstocks for the production of e-fuels, supporting a wider range of synthetic fuel pathways.
Applicatiobios
RiPR produces a tunable mix of syngas, hydrogen and biomethane, allowing outputs to be matched to specific industrial and energy uses. This flexibility supports the decarbonisation of heat, power and fuel systems that currently rely on natural gas. Gaseous outputs can be used for industrial use, or supplied as feedstocks for e-fuels and synthetic fuels. With carbon captured during production and no carbon released at the point of hydrogen use, RiPR enables a pathway beyond carbon neutral towards carbon negative.
Alongside this, biochar provides a stable, carbon-rich material that can be used to improve soils, filter water and support environmental remediation, delivering permanent carbon sequestration alongside clean energy.
Talk to us about decarbonisation
RiPR turns waste and biogenic feedstocks into biomethane, hydrogen and low-carbon fuels – at fossil-fuel cost parity, using infrastructure you already have. Get in touch to find out what’s possible.
