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Canada’s New Bio-Oil & Bio-Char Company
& Feeding Technology Description
www.agri-therm.com
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The depletion of fossil fuel reserves ( oil prices)
Global demand for renewable fuels and green chemicals
Demand for increasing utilization of agricultural and
industrial by-products/wastes (process intensification)
Reduce GHG Emissions
Job creation
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Converts crops,
waste & other
Biomass sources
into Bio-Oil
through a
process called
Fast Pyrolysis.
No competition with food
Compact, mobile, easy to operate:
No need to transport biomass
Self-sufficient in
energy
Reduces chemical fertilizers
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The Problem: Converting Biomass into alternative fuel is limited by transportation costs/seasonality.
Labour costs must also be minimized.
The Solution: Mobile Pyrolysis, the Agri-Therm MPS200
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Levoglucosan
Hydroxyacetaldehyde
Methyl Glyoxal
Acetic Acid
Formic Acid
Glyoxal
CELLULOSE
Hydroxyacetone
Slow pyrolysis: only char
Fluidized bed technology
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Conclusions
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N2 Pulse
N2 continuous
Conclusions
3) The char stays in the bed.
Bio-oil vapours and permanent gases leave the reactor toward condensers.
4) An hot filter traps the small fraction of fine particles elutriated from the bed, avoiding contamination of the bio-oil.
1) The biomass is injected into the bed.
2) It mixes with the hot sand and reacts.
N2 or Recycled pyrolysis permanent gases for Fluidization
Mobile P yrolysis System:
◦ Brings the Plant to the source (10 tonnes biomass/day)
◦ Converts Biomass to Bio-Gas, Bio-Oil and Bio-Char.
◦ Bio-Oil: ~30 MJ/kg, or 70% energy content of oil
◦ Bio-Char: Carbon Sequestration and Soil Amendment
◦ 1 tonne Bio-Char sequesters
3 tonnes of CO2
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Opportunities
Grape Skins and Seeds 12.2 million tonnes worldwide
Wine Grape
Wine
Corn
Bio ethanol
Dried Distiller’s Grains 35 million tonnes in North America
Sugarcane
Sugarcane Juice
Sugarcane Bagasse 500 million tonnes worldwide
Forest Resources
Pulp and Paper
Forestry Residue 280 million tonnes worldwide
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Canada ◦ Forestry residues ◦ Tobacco ◦ Distillers’ grains & corn stover ◦ Chicken litter ◦ Apple pomace ◦ Grape residues ◦ Flax straw ◦ Food waste ◦ Coffee grounds ◦ Wastewater treatment plant sludge
Rest of world ◦ Sugarcane plant and bagasse ◦ Rice straw ◦ Coffee husks
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Agri-Therm
MPS
Equipment
Sales
Forestry
Agriculture
Government
Municipalities
Universities
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Globally 1.4B tpa
Canada
42M tpa
1% of Global market, 5400 MPS units
1% of Canadian market, 200 MPS units
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Cetane Energy 2 M gal/y 10 units
New Generation Biofuels 5 M gal/y 25 units
Biojet 200 M gal/y 1000 units
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Mobile Capacity (tonnes/day)
Technology $/tpd processed
Agri-Therm YES 5-10 Fluidized bed $75k
3 Seconds to Oil
NO 30 Fluidized bed $90k
ABRI with ZWES
~YES 1 Auger unknown
Best Pyrolysis NO 30 Auger unknown
1 metric ton of forestry residue (dry basis) = $60
produces:
600 kg of BioOil (~ 18 MJ/kg) @ $ 0.22/kg (1) = $132
200 kg of BioChar (~ 28 MJ/kg) @ $ 0.6/kg (2) = $120
carbon credits for BioChar @ $ 0.07/kg (3) = $14
Total Product Value = $266
Net Product Value per t of residue processed = $206
5 day week, 20% down (182$/t x 5t/d x 208 d/yr) = $214,240
$600K capital expense with 10% maintenance & operations cost
simple payback = 600,000/(214,240-60,000) = 3.8 years
(1) Sharp biofuels forward contract for biooil purchase at $0.22/kg
(2) Horticultural Char TIME (Dec. 2008)
(3) EU Carbon Trading (www.pointcarbon.com)
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1 metric ton of Ag Waste = $0
produces:
300 kg of BioOil (~ 18 MJ/kg) @ $ 0.22/kg (1) = $66
500 kg of BioChar (~ 28 MJ/kg) @ $ 0.65/kg (2) = $325
carbon credits for BioChar @ $ 0.07/kg (3) = $35
Total Product Value per tonne of residue processed= $430
5 day week, 20% down (414$/t x 5t/d x 208 d/yr) = $447,200
$600K capital expense with 10% maintenance and operation cost
simple payback = 600,000/(447,200-60,000) = 1.55 years
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Phase I Demonstration
◦ 5 units in select target market/uses
◦ Currently seeking customers for pilot project MPS200
Phase II Partnerships
◦ Manufacturing/Distribution, Service Providers, Oil
Co’s
Phase III Expansion
◦ Expanded product lines, expanded uses (e.g. tires,
waste)
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Conclusions
Technology proven at 200 kg/hr scale
Prototype tested for long term operation
First two sales secured (client experiment projects)
Second generation unit nearing completion/testing
Demonstrations planned for various national and international
companies
Marketing plan under development
Research in progress on upstream and downstream processing
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