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Biomass Magazine - May 2008 Article (Great SSTP Article)...
Excellent article and great exposure....

http://www.biomassmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=1607

From the May 2008 Issue
Sustainable Power Corp. demonstrates biocrude technology, establishes Central American subsidiary
by Bryan Sims

Web exclusive posted April 23, 2008 at 12:48 p.m. CST

Sustainable Power Corp. showed why it could quite possibly revolutionize how renewable fuel, power and chemical are produced and become a viable player in the biomass industry when it touted its proprietary biocrude oil production process during a public demonstration at its Baytown, Texas, Green Energy Facility in early April.

SSTP’s facility, a joint venture with its Natchez, Miss.-based parent company U.S. Sustainable Energy, is capable of producing between 6,700 and 24,000 gallons per day of Vertroleum™ – SSTP’s branded biocrude oil – out of its four-reactor unit using palm and soybean wastes as feedstock. Vertroleum™ can be refined to create a variety of biofuels and chemicals, including 100 percent biogasoline (or BG-100), biodiesel blendstocks, bio-oils, biokerosene, biojet fuel, refined diesel, tars and plastics. Additionally, SSTP’s biocrude oil has the ability to be refined into 69 renewable fuel or chemical materials as certified by AmSpec Services LLC. AmSpec, with locations in Texas and New Jersey, is a fuel testing company that conducts diesel and fuel oil analysis along with state-of-the-art gasoline analysis and extensive chemical testing.

According to SSTP Chief Executive Officer John Rivera, Vertroleum™ is created by way of “a chemical hyrdrolysis with a modified pyrolysis and the use of nano bacteria” to which he specifically coins as “The Rivera Process”. What’s left is a viable biofuel product that meets ASTM standards, which can be immediately sold in the market.

“It took 20 years of research to come up with this research,” Rivera said. “You’re seeing history in the making. We’re changing the face of energy.”

The secret to the “Rivera Process” relies on a specific catalyst that promotes a chemical reaction to transform the biomass waste feedstock into a syngas where it travels through the reactors’ elongated chrome alloy tubes that allow for expansion due to high heat. The process reacts in a vacuum throughout in an ambient temperature less than 800 degrees Fahrenheit. As opposed to conventional pyrolysis processes, SSTP’s BG-100 and diesel blendstocks are left with less than 1 percent water content due to oxygen molecules remaining in tact whereby the finished product remains naturally oxygenated. The entire process takes just over eight minutes, regardless of the amount of feedstock introduced, River said.

To prevent legal rights infringements and to sustain private concept, Rivera’s catalyst is revered as unmatched in the industry. In fact, Rivera’s bacteria catalyst is so surreptitious that some on his staff, let alone those within the renewable fuels and energy industry, are not aware of its potency.

“I can give you all the blueprints and all the nuts and bolts to the design of my reactors and my building structure, but it means nothing without my catalyst,” Rivera says. “I’m against all academia. I’ve had scientists and engineers tell me that all crude oil comes from vegetation and 50 billion years later you get oil from the ground. This isn’t a production process; this is a ‘time machine’.”

In addition to biofuel and other related biochemicals, the SSTP creates other saleable byproducts as well, including an effective 737 carbon-based soil fertilizer and valuable mineral water it captures in storage tanks. Other benefits include internal production of electricity, no air and water emissions and its noise free.

In addition to palm waste and soybeans, SSTP has conducted trial runs that had positive results on other non-food hydrocarbon-based feedstocks such as dried distillers’ grains and algae.

The Baytown Green Energy facility has a current capacity of 2.4 MMgy, and is planning to expand capacity to 8.7 MMgy by May, Rivera said. The joint venture partners ultimately plan to add a 500 megawatt power plant at the Baytown facility. Sustainable Power Corp. has exclusive rights to utilize the SSTP biofuel discovery within the power generation market and offer services to build, integrate, support and fund modular refueling plants that produce the USSE biofuel.

Meanwhile, SSTP announced it has established its SSTP fully owned Central American subsidiary, SSTP Central America Guatemala, S.A., where the company is initiating a campaign to deploy similar biomass reactor projects in Central American countries looking to displace agricultural residues into energy. Parlacen President Julio Gonzalez Gamarra fully endorsed SSTP’s reactor technology when he attended the public demonstration in Baytown, Texas. Gamarra also has become a member of SSTP’s Board of Directors to help facilitate the company’s Central American endeavors. The Central American Parliament is composed of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic.

According to Rivera, SSTP Central America Guatemala has proposed a 500-megawatt biomass project in Guatemala slated to begin this year in which it will solidify joint ventures with local African palm producers. SSTP will address the proposed project in detail during a general assembly meeting in Guatemala on April 23-24.

To view the public demonstration video of how SSTP’s process works, visit http://sstp.us/pres1.wmv. To learn more about the company visit www.sustainablepower.com/index.html or www.biocrude.us/.
© 2008 BBI International


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