Gate 5 Energy Partners, Inc.
The Future of Sustainable Energy.
Who we are.
Our Mission
Our Vision
A cleaner, healthier planet where organic materials, such as sewage and animal manure, are transformed into abundant renewable energy and other safe, valuable products.
Key Benefits
- Delivers Sustainability: Develops a scalable energy source that does not rely on fossil fuels to produce renewable energy to help power the planet.
- Environmental Protection: Safeguards the environment, communities, and public health by eliminating pathogens, chemicals, microplastics, and methane in sewage and other organic waste.
- Cost Savings: Lowers capital and operating costs significantly, compared to legacy wastewater processing methods, through Gate 5’s patented onsite thermal process.
- Addressable Market: Serves vast domestic and global wastewater/sanitation markets, with rapid adoption expected after commercial launch.
- Gate 5 Infrastructure transforms organic material considered “waste” into renewable energy and other safe, usable products. providing positive public health and environmental benefits when compared to legacy methods used today.
We need to understand wastewater as raw material with impurities. If we remove the impurities, we can extract energy, water, and construction materials from this valuable substance.”
Sebastien Tilmans, PhD
Executive Director,
Codiga Resource Recovery Center
Stanford University
What we do.
Resource Recovery.
Our innovative, widely scalable thermal process offers economically and environmentally superior solutions that generate renewable energy while eliminating pharmaceuticals, microplastics, PFAS, methane, and hydrogen sulfide emissions that today’s treatment processes cannot eliminate or manage. Beyond wastewater and sewage, Gate 5 Infrastructure is adaptable to agribusiness, animal, and food processing.
For too long, we have thought of sewage as waste and disposed of it accordingly, rather than unlocking its full value. Even the recycle and reuse options available at today’s treatment facilities come with public health and environmental concerns, which are mitigated by our innovative technology.
Further, Gate 5 Infrastructure eliminates climate-harming methane, diesel pollution, and destroys pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and other troublesome compounds that pass through today’s processes.
Our process.
Gate 5’s technology—patented in the U.S. and seven other nations—efficiently integrates proven components to cost-effectively transform sewage and other organic material into 100% safe and usable products, including renewable electricity. Its thermal, onsite process destroys compounds of concern and produces no methane or hydrogen sulfide.
Gate 5 Infrastructure - How It Works
1. Screening and Dewatering: Advanced membrane technology separates solids from liquids that are returned to the plant for treatment.
2. Drying: An energy-efficient flash dryer transforms the dewatered slude into a high-energy biofuel.
3. Combusion: The biofuel is burned and two-thirds of the energy powers a turbine, and the “flue gas” is cleaned to applicable air quality standards prior to discharge into the atmosphere.
4. Power Generation: The system generates more than enough renewable energy to power the plant, with excess available for onsite use or sale to the grid.
Gate 5 recognizes that what has been treated as “waste” is in fact a valuable asset, and Gate 5 Infrastructure will unlock its potential.
Sustainable
Sewage sludge and other organic feedstock becomes a biofuel that is combusted to power steam turbines generating more than enough renewable energy to power the process.
Speedy
Gate 5 Infrastructure process is completed in 2 days or less, compared to 20+ days for digestion-based processes. A Gate 5 plant does not require massive vessels to process weeks worth of digesting or chemically enhanced sludge, significantly reducing physical footprint.
Simple
Gate 5 Infrastructure uses screening, drying, and combusting to break down organic feedstock and destroy contaminants, and produce 100% usable products that legacy chemical and biological processes cannot.
Scalable
Gate 5 Infrastructure can be scaled to add capacity, complement, or replace entire facilities, and new Gate 5 modules can be deployed to replace aging components in conventional wastewater plants. Gate 5 systems can also provide cost-effective sanitation and renewable electricity for the 75% of the world’s population that has none of either.
Eco-friendly
As a thermal process, Gate 5 Infrastructure does not generate methane or hydrogen sulfide, moreover, the feedstock becomes a biofuel that burns free of the compounds of concern that remain after today's legacy treatment processes.
Economics
Gate 5 Infrastructure is an assemblage of subsystems that separate vendors will produce, test and ship to job-sites for assembly. Outside of a small volume of building material, there are no byproducts to haul for disposal or management.
Biofuel produced from a pound of sewage sludge contains up to
9,000 BTUs
the same as an average pound of coal.
Local Market
California’s Total Addressable Market for Gate 5 Infrastructure includes 100 or more treatment plants.
Gate 5 Infrastructure can...
- Eliminate 100,000 metric tons of methane annually tons of methane annually
- California WWTPs use between 2,000 and 3,500 GWh (gigawatt-hours) of Grid electricity annually. Using a total addressable market (TAM) based on Gate 5 Infrastructure at all CA WWTPs, 1,400 to 1,500 GWh would be produced annually.
- …and destroy microplastics, pharmaceuticals and contaminants of concern.
Conventional wastewater treatment is an approach that, for the wealthiest segments of the world, has enabled major advances in protection of public health and the environment. For the rest of the world, it is an expensive, unattainable pipe dream.”
Sebastien Tilmans, PhD
Executive Director,
Codiga Resource Recovery Center
Stanford University
Global impact.
According to the U.N., six billion people on the planet completely lack sanitation. They suffer from disease, malnutrition, and live shorter lives than people in less polluted environments.
Those completely lacking sanitation suffer from disease, malnutrition, polluted environments and shortened lifespans.
Gate 5 Infrastructure’s straightforward and scalable solution can be deployed globally to villages and urban areas. Being a thermal process, it can be installed and operated at a much lower cost than current approaches, eliminating contaminants of concern and greenhouse gases from the environment, improving quality of life, providing renewable energy, and creating a more sustainable future.
The present.
The wastewater industry has utilized incremental improvements to long-used methods and not given much attention to innovation. But today’s concerns over, public health and the environment are driving regulations that will soon require improvements beyond the capabilities of long used equipment and processes.
The future.
Gate 5 has reimagined the management of organic feedstock such as sewage sludge and animal waste – we see sludge and other organic material residuals as resources.
Gate 5’s thermal process is powered by feedstock transformed into renewable electricity – and in the process, destroys microplastics and other contaminants that are the focus of new and coming regulations.
Innovative: Patent protected Gate 5 Infrastructure utilizes well-proven equipment configured in an innovative and efficient manner.
Low Cost: As much as half the cost to build and operate in comparison to wastewater plants built with legacy technologies.
Not Landfill Dependent: Gate 5 Infrastructure offers 100% onsite management and eliminates the reliance on landfills or other land disposal options.
Reduced Environmental Concerns: Sludge processing without generating methane, or diesel emissions related to hauling and a thermal process that will destroy pharmaceuticals, microplastics and many contaminants of concern.
Responsive Demographic Shifts: Gate 5 can fulfill the need to accommodate inevitable population growth that will drive a need for new wastewater infrastructure.
Addresses Obsolescence: Water reclamation plants are aging towards the point of replacement, and our innovative process is both environmentally and economically superior.
The Gate 5 Team
Steve Delson
Steve Delson is the co-founder and CEO of Gate 5, he brings over 30 years of engineering, consulting, and business expertise to Gate 5
Lisa Heinz
Founder
Ms. Heinz is a seasoned financial executive with decades of experience in financial management and private capital investing. She has a strong commitment to driving positive social impact.
Jon Glazer
Director of Finance
Jon brings over four decades of financial experience supporting project development and financing of infrastructure projects and businesses.
Michael Moore
Director of Compliance
With over 40 years of experience in bio solids management and wastewater engineering, Mr. Moore is a nationally recognized leader in sustainable biosolids strategy. He has led major programs shaping, both regional and national approaches to biosolids management.
News & Technology
What Gate 5 Infrastructure Means for Oceans
Throughout the world, waterways – and oceans in particular – have become the discharge points of choice for treated wastewater....
Keeping Microplastics From Oceans and Land
Microplastics, tiny plastic particles smaller than five millimeters, are growing threats to our oceans, land, and air. Found everywhere from...
Addressing PFAS in Wastewater: Gate 5 Answers the Call for Innovation
Headlines nationwide underscore an imminent need for improved solutions to manage sewage sludge. Across the country, reports are drawing attention...
Transforming the Imperial Beach Crisis into a Model of Sustainability With Gate 5 Infrastructure
For decades, the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant, located on the border between San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico,...
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5270 California Avenue
Sute 200
Irvine, CA 92617
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