The Antares Group Inc.
4351 Garden City Drive, Suite 301
Landover, MD 20785

Tel. (301) 731-1900
Fax. (301) 731-1904

Other Renewables

BioProducts

ANTARES is assisting private and public sector clients to identify and assess biobased product market opportunities. This includes but is not limited to working with our clients in the following areas:
  • Understand the relative weaknesses and strengths of their technologies
  • Set R&D priorities based on early market opportunities
  • Determining long-term product mixes that maximize the potential for future success
  • Understand changing environmental regulations to capitalize on emerging opportunities

Some of ANTARES clients are developing biobased products in context of a “BioRefinery” concept, which relies on a multi-sector approach for product marketing. Biobased fuels and biobased products would be manufactured in proportions that make the appropriate trade-offs between production economies of scale and profitability.

ANTARES assists private clients such as BIOFINE and government clients such as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to assess and choose the appropriate development pathway. ANTARES’ experience with biomass power, biobased fuels, and biobased products gives ANTARES the ability to help our clients develop broad based solutions and help them strike the best balance to meet their business objectives.

Notable Projects:
Characterizing the Biomass Gasification Route to the BioRefinery
BioRefineries

Distributed Generation and CHP Programs

Distributed generation commonly refers to on-site power generation technology, which is tailored to meeting the needs of the consumer. Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems are on-site generation systems, which achieve high efficiency through the concurrent production of electric power and process heat. Distributed generation is an alternative or complementary approach to reliance on grid power. It provides another means of meeting the nations future energy and security needs while increasing the reliability of power supply to the owners.

The classic example of renewable energy CHP is the pulp & paper plant, which raises steam from pulp chemical recovery and waste wood and utilizes steam for power production and papermaking. Other distributed renewable energy technologies include wind and solar thermal and photovoltaics. With conventional fuels, such as natural gas, the concurrent production of power and steam, or hot water, can achieve fuel efficiencies approaching 80%.

ANTARES’ assignments have involved both renewable and conventional fuel resources. We have assisted clients in the evaluation of projects, technologies, markets, regulations and policy. Our broad prospective have provided our private and government clients valuable insights into these technologies and their applications.

Notable Projects:
Consumer Preferences for Distributed Generation
Technology Characterizations for Natural Gas-Fired DG Systems
Distributed Generation Study
Biomass Distrubuted Power Generation Study