Gas Compression Magazine, Interviews Issue

Executive Outlook: A CONVERSATION WITH DARYL MAAS, CEO, FOUNDER, AND OWNER OF MAAS ENERGY WORKS

What role does gas compression play for your business and end markets? We generate raw biogas from manure and food waste, and that biogas can be used in a variety of ways. Right now, the best way to use our gas is to clean it, compress it, and deliver it into the utility pipeline. Our company spends a lot of time trying to find the best way to take raw, wet biogas, run it through a cleaning process that involves a lot of compression, and then deliver it into a pipeline. The process of handling that gas is critical to our ability to deliver it into the pipeline and to reach our end markets.

In your opinion, what are the biggest challenges facing the gas compression industry today? What is Maas Energy Works doing to meet these challenges? I can’t speak broadly for the entire gas compression industry, but for our particular industry, which is handling raw biogas, the challenge is making sure that compressors, chillers, piping, valves, and membranes can handle a raw, wet, high-sulfur gas that also contains carbon dioxide (CO 2). The goal is to find technologies that allow us to clean up the gas into pure methane. We’ve made progress in sulfur and moisture removal, and other related processes.

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