About Kerogen Systems
An engineering, research, and development company
KSI commercializes patented technology that converts kerogen, lignite, and other carbonaceous sources into Kerogenate — a carbon feedstock that displaces crude-derived petrochemicals and lowers the carbon intensity of the products made from them.
The company is based in Vernal, Utah, where its pilot plant has demonstrated the process at pilot scale. KSI owns the process technology, the pilot plant, and a bench-scale unit for testing and process modelling.
Leadership
Decades of industrial and process experience
Experimental research, refining technology commercialization, pilot plant design and scale-up, process engineering, and global operations — the skills needed to take a novel process from the bench to a commercial plant.
Otto Schneider
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Sabra Ehrhart
President & Chief Operating Officer
Our History
From research to a demonstrated process
- Years of research and development into kerogen processing lead to a USTAR grant and funding for a pilot plant.
- The pilot plant fulfills its USTAR objectives, and the first U.S. patent is awarded.
- 2020 — Kerogen Systems Inc. is founded.
- 2021 — The second U.S. patent is granted.
- A full life cycle assessment (LCA) of the process is completed.
Research collaborators
Idaho National Laboratory
Evaluated Field Assisted Sintering Technology (FAST) for continuous carbon-carbon composite manufacture.
MARS Center, Weber State University
The Miller Advanced Research and Solutions Center worked on use of Kerogenate for impregnation of carbon fiber preforms.
Hexcel
One of the nation's leading manufacturers of carbon fiber and carbon-carbon composites for aerospace, evaluating the commercial efficacy of the carbon-carbon composites.