Energy Mix at 8 Rivers

Triangle-area energy professionals will join students, faculty, and staff from area universities at the Duke University Energy Initiative's February 18 Energy Mix.

RSVP now to let us know you'll be joining the fun: bit.ly/feb18mix

This Mix is cohosted by 8 Rivers Capital, a Durham-based firm working to develop sustainable, infrastructure-scale solutions to important societal problems. They focus on large-scale innovation with repeatable results, using a unique model to commercialize technologies in what they call "Blue Oceans"-fields lacking in creative disruption and outside thinking.

Just one element of the 8 Rivers portfolio is the Allam-Fetvedt Cycle: a new way to generate low-cost power from carbon-based fuels without producing air emissions. The Allam-Fetvedt Cycle uses the oxy-combustion of carbon fuels and a high-pressure supercritical C02 Working fluid in a highly recuperated cycle that captures all emissions by design. The only byproducts are liquid water and a stream of high-purity, pipeline ready CO2. The cycle can utilize a variety of fuels, including natural gas, unprocessed raw and sour gas, and gasified solid fuels such as coal or biomass. The Allam-Fetvedt Cycle embodies major advantages over conventional systems: attaining high efficiencies at low costs with low to no water consumption. All this with full, free emissions capture. 8 Rivers is currently building the first Allam-Fetvedt Cycle power plant.