Dynamotive: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile
Dynamotive
Based in: Canada
2008-09 ranking: #41
Business: The Company converts residual biomass from agricultural and forestry operations and/or dedicated non-food 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.
• Investment: Approximately $ 33 million will deliver a 15 year production capacity of approximately 67 million gallons of renewable transportation grade hydrocarbon fuels.
• Time to market; Dynamotive’s pyrolysis platform is available today, with plants of 130 Mt and 200 Mt per day completed. The upgrading process uses conventional hydrotreatment equipment and process conditions allowing for rapid implementation at pilot and commercial scale
Model: Owner-operator.
Past milestones:
1. Renewable gasoline and diesel from ligno-cellulose biomass produced at Dynamotive’s research facility in Ontario, Canada
2. Analysis of Dynamotive pgraded BioOil confirms gasoline, jet, diesel and vacuum gasoil fractions; proprietary two stage upgrading process provides path to mobile fuels from biomass.
3. BlueLeaf Inc. and Dynamotive announce biochar test results: CQuest biochar enriched plots yield crop increase ranging from six to 17 percent vs. control plots.
4. Dynamotive Receives $260,000 order for West Lorne BioOil – The order envisages a minimum of 18 shipments of BioOil, August 3, 2009.
Future milestones:
1. USDA – ARS Study Results (Impact of Biochar on Soil Quality, Crop Yields, Carbon Sequestration, and Water Quality), Late 2009 – early 2010. Additional tests with BlueLeaf Inc.
2. Pilot plant completion, upgrading BioOil thru BINGO process. Third party testing/verification of fuel.
3. Announcement of first U.S. project site for BioOil Upgrading plant (commercial/demonstration).
Metrics: Dynamotive’s pyrolysis process converts roughly 85% of the total biomass feed into useful solid (char) and liquid (BioOil) fuels. The balance is utilized to provide energy to the process. Yields of Diesel/Gasoline from BioOil through the Stage 2 (hydrotreating) upgrading process of 37% have been achieved at bench-scale. The net overall yield from whole biomass to diesel/gasoline is approximately 25%.
Dynamotive quotable quotes: “Dynamotive’s process is projected to be economically viable at 1/7 to 1/15 scale of competing technologies currently known or under development. It is projected that a plant processing under 70,000
tonnes 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.”
“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.”
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