Title: Emission to BiofuelsTM
1 2GreenFuel Technologies Corp. at a glance
- Founded in 2001 by MIT Harvard scientists
- Over 13M investment
- Mission To manufacture biofuels profitably
worldwide from combustion exhaust using
GreenFuel's advanced algal biotechnology
3GreenFuels Emissions-to-Biodiesel Business
Patented Algal Biotechnology
Biodiesel at petro-diesel prices
NOx CO2 from combustion flue gas emissions
Opportunity To deploy alongside major power
plants, worldwide.
4Algae has multiple potential uses
Esterification
- Biodiesel
- Ethanol Bio-plastics
- Green Power
- Bio-hydrogen
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- Fish Feed
Fermentation
Co-Firing
Gasification Reforming
Drying
5Biodiesel provides GreenFuels clearest path to
profitability
- Biodiesel market is
- Currently 550 M / year and growing 50 annually
- Characterized by low barriers to entry
- GreenFuels advantages are
- A significant cost-of-production advantage
- Ability to enter market with little additional
technological risk
- Petro-diesel market is
- Attainable with GreenFuels anticipated
production cost - 155 B per year in industrialized countries
- Market is stimulated by government regulation
worldwide - Particularly in the EU US
- Public money available, reducing equity needs
Petro-diesel
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6GreenFuels transformational technology
- GreenFuels intellectual property comprises
- Proprietary technology for algal adaptation
- From 26M NASA project for Intl Space Station
- Proprietary field bioreactor design that is
- Inexpensive to manufacture
- Inexpensive to operate
- Patent pending analytical method to optimally
expose algae to sunlight
? Five patents pending, more to follow
7Light zones inside photobioreactor
A Photoinhibition zone B Light saturated
zone C Light limitation zone D Dark zone
PFD Photon Flux Density
8Light Reaction
9Dark Reaction
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11Covered Trench Bioreactor Element
- Builds on conventional designs
- Berm between trenches used for access, piping,
carrying off rain - Low-pressure operation
Structural Rib
Greenhouse Cover
Algae Stream
Lined Trench
12Backmixed Trench Bioreactor System
- 300 acre overview (0.5 mile X 1 mile)
13External Validation
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