About the Opportunity

At Skyven Technologies, we have developed a revolutionary heat pump technology to decarbonize industrial heat and move the needle on climate change. Our technologies have the potential to completely eliminate on-site CO2 emissions from industrial steam. We implement this technology through an innovative Energy-as-a-Service model that provides clean process heat to industrial facilities. We identify, fund, design, build, and install our cutting-edge, decarbonization technologies to help industrial manufacturers reach their sustainability goals, while minimizing their risk and reducing their operational expenses.

Industrial heat is responsible for roughly 20% of global CO2 emissions. That’s roughly equivalent to emissions generated by all transportation (including land, sea, and air) and is a compelling business opportunity – it will take an estimated $3.7 trillion in capital investment to decarbonize the sector by 2050. Skyven is at the forefront of this transformation and has recently been selected for a $145M investment from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate the deployment of our state-of-the-art Skyven Arcturus steam-generating heat pumps (SGHPs) at manufacturing facilities nationwide, revolutionizing how we address energy needs while combating climate change.

About the Position

We are seeking to hire a short-term, part-time advisor (contractor) to assist with the validation of a custom designed flash vessel for our steam generating heat pump product. We generally expect the project to require 20-40 hours of work, to be completed in four weeks or less.

Technology Background

The flash vessels receive warm water from a waste heat source and force the water through a pressure drop to bring the pressure lower than the liquid’s saturation pressure. This causes some amount of the liquid to vaporize, creating low pressure steam. This steam is then passed through a series of fans (mechanical vapor recompression fans, or MVRS) to increase its pressure to the desired target value.

Skyven’s flash vessels are a brand-new design, but very similar in geometry and operation to vessels used in multi-stage flash (MSF) distillation plants. Water flows horizontally through the vessels, dropping pressure through interstage orifices, generating steam at different pressures in each flash vessel. Unlike MSF technology, there is no condenser in the stages as steam is sent directly to the rest of the process.