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We do methane.
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Our Mission
To be the world leader in harnessing weak methane emissions
Our Vision
To make wetlands methane the new renewable energy
The Prabhu Energy Labs Story
In 2019, Edan Prabhu started Prabhu Energy Labs to develop new weak-gas-to-power systems based on two US patents (awarded in 2020 and 2022) for the oxidation of weak gas. In spring of 2022, Edan re-dedicated the company to focus 100% on methane removal and use, answering the urgent call for climate action. In 2023, Prabhu Energy Labs will further develop the Oxiperator for lean-burn gas engines together with oil and gas industry partners in North America.
Our 2030 Goals
1. Remove 1 Gigaton of CO2e of weak methane emissions
2. Generate 100 Megawatts of clean power from weak methane emissions
What is Weak Methane ?
More than half of annual global methane emissions are "weak," escaping at concentrations far too low to ignite, less than 2% in air (20,000 ppm). Weak methane is emitted from sources both natural and man-made, across industries and geographies: fossil fuel production, cattle farms, rice fields and landfills, as well as lakes, wetlands and the ocean.
100s of millions of tons of weak methane emissions escape to the atmosphere each year, about 10% of all greenhouse gases. There’s an urgent need for weak methane mitigation to put the brakes on climate change.
We believe weak methane emissions from wetlands could be part of our new energy future.
100s of millions of tons of weak methane emissions escape to the atmosphere each year, about 10% of all greenhouse gases. There’s an urgent need for weak methane mitigation to put the brakes on climate change.
We believe weak methane emissions from wetlands could be part of our new energy future.
THE TEAM
Edan Prabhu
Edan Prabhu, Founder and CEO of Prabhu Energy Labs, invented and patented the Oxiperator. He previously founded FlexEnergy, which built gas turbine power plants running on weak gas. Before that, Edan spent more than 20 years at a public utility, building clean energy power plants.
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Monica PrabhuMonica Prabhu, Director of Commercialization and Communications Prabhu Energy Labs, sees methane as the challenge and the solution to easing the energy transition.
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Sam WellerSam Weller, Director of Operations at Prabhu Energy Labs, does product development and is committed to engineering a solution to climate change.
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Prabhu Energy Labs is a winner of the NGIF Industry Grants' Natural Gas Cleantech Competition
Prof. Vinod Narayanan, University of California Davis,
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
high temperature heat transfer, thermodynamics
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Prabhu Energy Labs is a member of Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada (PTAC)
Partners
Prof. Tony Rollett, Carnegie Mellon University,
Department of Materials Science & Engineering,
metallurgy, high temperature 3D printing
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Prof. Dan Olsen, Colorado State University, Energy Institute,
Engine and Energy Conversion Lab, large bore natural gas engines, industrial engine systems
Xi-Ying Zhang, PhD, Principal Engineer, American Bureau of Shipping
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