Power Generation

The BCT Gasifier produces a very clean, medium to high BTU syngas that can be easily custom tailored to efficiently power most of today's modern, lean burn internal combustion generator sets. Because the gas is so clean it will not "foul" the generator or void the manufacturer's warranty. It will power the generator set with no "derate."

Catalytic Generation of Ethanol and other Liquid Fuels

The ability to produce ethanol cheaply and quickly from synthesis gas is of equal and perhaps even greater significance than the breakthroughs represented by the gasifier. The proprietary Biomass Conversion System ("System") is comprised of the BCT Gasifier mated to our proprietary ethanol reactor. The System features a proprietary catalyst, and other trade secret elements. The System is highly efficient and can generate up to 20,000 GPD of ethanol from 400 wet (200 dry) tons per day of any kind of carbonaceous material.

Speed

Because the process is catalytic it is very fast, especially when compared to present practices like the dry milling or wet milling distillation process. It takes approximately 20 minutes for a volume of carbonaceous material entered into the BCT gasifier to exit the direct connected ethanol reactor as ethanol.

Efficiency and Throughput

Traditional methods of generating ethanol, such as wet and dry milling, generally focus on fermenting the sugars in biomass to generate ethanol. They perform poorly, if at all, on biomass or carbonaceous materials with low sugar content. On the other hand, the BCT system uses and chemically reforms any carbon compound in the material stream, whether or not it is a sugar. It is therefore inherently much more flexible, efficient and economical than either dry milling or wet milling because (i) it can utilize a much wider range of materials, and (ii) utilize much more of the material in the process. For example, it can generate as much or more ethanol from the DDG's, the waste product of fermentation technologies, as they generate in their primary process.

Table 1 below shows the estimated ethanol yields and other performance parameters of the BCT process per ton of various feedstocks. The charted yield is based on gallons of ethanol per dry ton of feedstock. The actual yields achieved depend on a great variety of static and dynamic factors, too complex to be itemized here. Use these figures as a guideline only.