lanzatech circular economy through c1 fermentation
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LanzaTech
Circular economy through C1 fermentation
Business Confidential
Business Confidential
The LanzaTech process is driving innovation
Gas Feed Stream
Gas Reception Compression Fermentation Recovery ProductTank
• Process recycles waste carbon into fuels and chemicals
• Process brings underutilized carbon into the fuel pool via industrial symbiosis
• Potential to make material impact on the future energy pool (>100s of billions of gallons per year)
Novel gas fermentation
technology captures CO-rich
gases and converts the carbon
to fuels and chemicalsProprietary
Microbe
Gases are the soleenergy and carbon source
Waste carbon streams as a Resource
CO2
CO CO + H2 CO + H2 + CO2
Reforming Gasification
CO2 + H2O + e-
Renewable
Electricity
CO2 + H2
Renewable H2
Gas Fermentation
Available Most Point SourcedHigh Volume/Low Intrinsic Value
Non-Food
Industrial Waste Gas
Steel, PVC, Ferroalloys
~ 1.4B MTA (Steel only)
Biomass
>1.3B MTA (US Alone)
Solid WasteIndustrial, MSW, DSW
>2B MTA
BiogasLFG, Methane
~184.2T M3
Source:2010 global production; 2012 proven gas reserves data (IEA, UNEP, IndexMundi, US DOE Billion Ton Update)
Pyruvate
CO/H2/CO2
Acetyl-CoA
Ethanol
2,3-Butanediol
Fuel and Chemicals from gas
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LanzaTech proprietary bacterial strain
The natural LanzaTech gas fermenting microbe can make
both ethanol and 2,3-butanediol
Ready Now: Scale-up of the LanzaTech technology
Commercial Scale-up Factor Less Than
What Has Been Proven at Demo Scale
Lab
2005
~0.5-1 kg/day
Pilot
2008
50-100 kg/day
50 X Demo
2012
~1500 kg/day
32 X Commercial
2015
~300,000 kg/day
25 XStrain
Development
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CSC Board Approval
Public Announcements
China Steel Invest 7000 MM TWD Launch Two Projects 2015 -03-28 Economic Daily News
CSC board meeting held yesterday (27) has approved two investment project. It will spend 5600 MM TWD to overhaul No. 2 blast furnace of the third train; meanwhile investment 1400 MM TWD to erect a 100,000 ton per annum ethanol plant.
CSC states, trans-invested to WBT using LanzaTech (USA) fermentation technology, built an ethanol demonstration plant, in accordance with actual operation result, all indices were way exceed the targets, approve this technology worth for commercialization, will begin commercial plant at the year end.
Per the decision of CSC board, it will use the land near Xiao Gang Zhong Lin Road purchased from LCY to build the plant. The investment amount 1400 MM TWD. Starts production after estimated 2~3 years later. Per understanding, the plant will be in two phases, it will erect a 100,000 MT per annum production line, main application is gasoline additives and industrial ethanol.
http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers
Project Execution Time-lines:• Project K.O. - May, 2015• JV Establishment – June, 2015• Construction start – Q4’15
ArcelorMittal Gent
Electricity generation
Carbon recycling
with LanzaTech
• 120,000 tons/annum CO2
reduction• 300.000 tons/annum CO2
captured for future reuse• 60k MTA ethanol capacity• Adding value to CO
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Steel Mill Value Proposition
LanzaTech business case:
• Providing 2x More returns from fuel than from electricity
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Power Ethanol
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LanzaTech Ethanol Life Cycle Assessment
Third Party Study – EU Basis
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Fossil Fuel LanzaTech Ethanol
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Lifecycle GHG emissions following RED methodology
Fossil fuel comparator emissions (83.8 gCO2eq/MJ) from EU’s FQD
LanzaTech ethanol achieves a 76.6%
reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
over baseline fossil fuel
Key Assumptions:
• Cradle-to-pump lifecycle of ethanol
• EU’s Renewal Energy Directive methodology
• BOF gas considered as waste gas by steel industry and as residue by RSB.
• GHG emissions for LanzaTech ethanol from steel mill waste gas (BOF)
Steel Mill
Steel production
WasteGases
Broader Environmental Impact
LanzaTech Process emits 33% less CO2 than
electricity generation per MJ energy recovered
NOx
&Particulates
LanzaTech Process emits ~40% less NOx and ~80% fewer particulates
than electricity generation per MJ energy recovered
GridElectricity
Generation
Electricity
LanzaTechProcess
EthanolGasoline Pool
Carbon is Only Part of the Story
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MSW to fuel
Project overviewLanzaTech has a two year partnership with a major Asian chemical company to convert live-feeds of syngas produced from municipal solid waste (MSW) into ethanol.
LanzaTech has designed, installed, and operates a pilot plant producing ethanol at a MSW processing facility.
Pilot plant at gasification site
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Continuous stable ethanol production from MSW
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Acetate Ethanol OD
• Continuous with live feeds of MSW Syngas proven• Operation at commercial ethanol production rates and yields• Gas utilization efficiency exceeds 90%• All gas contaminant and variability issues understood and overcome.
LanzaTech is the only company to demonstrate continuous fuel production from MSW syngas.
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R1
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Gas utilization efficiencyTarget
Downstream Conversion - Hydrocarbon Fuels Process
Key Enabler:
Price and
Availability
of Alcohol
Downstream Conversion – 2,3-BDO to Butadiene
Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SBR)
US $13 billion/yr
Polybutadiene Rubber
(BR)
US $8 billion/yr
Nylon 6,6 (from Adiponitrile/HDMA)
US $7 billion/yr
Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS)
US $16 billion/yr
Köpke and Havill, Catalyst Review 27: 7-12 (2014)
Butadiene Product Markets
What do you want to make today?
Gas Feed Stream
Gas Reception Compression Fermentation Recovery ProductTank
• Fermentation systems remain identical• Product recovery may in some cases need modification
Paradigm Shift: chemical production plants that rapidly react to market
conditions
Microbes producing different
products can be exchanges within 3
days
Pyruvate
CO/H2
Acetyl-CoA
Fatty Acids,
Terpenoids
DiscoveryLab-scale
Cont.
Ferment.
Pilot/
Demo
Ethanol
Isopropanol
Acetone
Isobutylene
3-Hydroxypropionate
2,3-Butanediol
MEK
Biodiesel
Isoprene
1 Organism, over 25 products so far…
Succinate
2-Butanol
1-Butanol
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1,3-Butadiene
LactateBiopolymers
1,3-Butanediol
3-Hydroxybutyrate Physiology
• Control flux tosingle product
• Product tolerance• Vitamin biosynthesis
Recycle to Reduce Pressure on Reserves
Carbon Reduction through Re-use and Recycling
Carbon
C
Steel Aluminum Glass Plastic
Ore Alum Minerals Oil Oil
Keep it in the Ground!
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A 2-degree carbon budget will require countries to leave80 % of coal, 50 % of gas and 33 % of global oil in the ground.
Organization for Economic Growth and Development, Nature
Reducing Carbon: use all strategies
Re-using Atmospheric Carbon
RecyclingWaste Carbon
Carbon Reduction through Re-use and Recycling
(Todays approach) (Gas fermentation)
ReducingCarbon footprint
Fuels
Chemicals
Industry Waste
Municipal Waste
BiogasAgricultural
Waste
Starch-based
Sugar-based
Oilbased
Cellulose-based
Questions?