Petrosonic Energy Inc. (fka PSON)

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Power Consumption Really High for Commercial Operation Goal
If you review the patent application that Petrosonic references in their last their quarterly statement to SEC you will see a description of the prototype test rig that proved everything.

The problem I see is that it took 25 KW of power for two minutes to process 50 grams of oil. In same section of application it shows that a barrel of oil is 154-158 KG or (154000 grams). So on a commercial scale it would take:
Power = 25 KW * 154000 g / 50 g = 77000 KW (or 77 MW) for 120 seconds (or 2 minutes) to get 1 barrel

So in a single day running a commercial rig with 77 MW power consumption you have:
24 Hrs * 60 Min/Hr / 2 min/barrel = 720 barrels


If you want 1000 barrels a day the amount of power needed in megawatts is:
77 MW * 1000/720 = 107 MW.

A GE 107EA heavy duty combined cycle power plant generates 120 MW so a power plant of least this size would be needed to produce the 1000 barrel per day goal.

I am not so sure that this is economically feasible.