Turn heavy crude into light sweet crude. With electricity.
Conventional refining upgrades heavy oil through extreme heat, enormous energy consumption, and processes that emit benzene, sulfur dioxide, and toxic wastewater. Electron cold cracking does the same job cleanly, producing jet fuel, diesel, and naphtha using a fraction of the energy and water.
Heavy crude trades at a 20% discount. That discount is pure opportunity.
Heavy, sour crude is harder to refine than light sweet crude. It requires specialized refineries, extreme temperatures, and chemical-intensive processes. That's why it trades at a persistent discount.
Electron cold cracking uses a high-energy electron beam to break heavy hydrocarbon chains into lighter, higher-value products directly. No extreme heat. No toxic byproducts. A fraction of the energy and water consumption.
The output: lighter distillates including jet fuel, diesel fuel, and naphtha.
Cold cracking. No furnace required.
In thermal cracking, heavy crude is heated to extreme temperatures to break molecular bonds. This consumes enormous energy and produces toxic emissions.
In electron cold cracking, a Pulse accelerator delivers a beam of high-energy electrons directly into the crude. The electrons break the same bonds at room temperature. The process is continuous, controllable, and clean.
Pulse's Marianna facility currently has a 6,000-barrel-per-day electron cold cracking system under construction for demonstration and customer validation.