Biomass Magazine article. This is Major, nobody has this!
"The upgrading process addresses several critical issues in the development of sustainable fuels from biomass.
1) Food versus Fuel: The company converts residual biomass from agricultural and forestry operations and/or dedicated nonfood crops through a thermochemical process into BioOil and Biochar. BioOil and Biochar plants can coexist with existing forestry and agricultural facilities, providing an additional benefit to operations.
2) Yield: Dynamotive’s pyrolysis process converts roughly 85 percent of the total biomass feed into useful solid (char) and liquid (BioOil) fuels. The balance is utilized to provide energy to the process.
3) Yields of Diesel/Gasoline from BioOil through the stage 2 upgrading process of 37 percent have been achieved at bench-scale. The net overall yield from whole biomass to diesel/gasoline is approximately 25 percent, which to our knowledge is the highest ever reported.
4) Scale: Dynamotive’s process is projected to be economically viable at one-seventh to one-fifteenth scale of competing technologies currently known or under development. It is projected that a plant processing under 70,000 metric tons of biomass a year would produce approximately 4,500,000 gallons of renewable gas-oil at under $2 per gallon. The scale factor enables distributed production i.e. plants can be developed in diverse locations creating sustainable “green” jobs, while being compatible with agro and forestry operations.
5) Flexibility: the two stage process developed by the company also allows for the opportunity to further upgrade the stage 1 renewable gasoil into diesel and gasoline fuels at a centralized facility or the development of a fully integrated plant if production logistics and economics merit it. This provides for flexibility in development and application.
6) Investment: Given the plant scale, the investment required is comparatively low. Approximately $33 million will deliver a 15-year production capacity of approximately 67 million gallons of renewable transportation-grade hydrocarbon fuels. This is a fraction of the capital cost per gallon and per plant required by proposed competing technologies.
7) Time to market; Dynamotive’s pyrolysis platform is available today, with plants of 130 and 200 metric tons per day completed. The upgrading process uses conventional hydrotreatment equipment and process conditions allowing for rapid implementation at pilot and commercial scale.
8) Construction of an upgrading pilot plant is planned for later this year."
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