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About Syngas Biofuels Energy, Inc. Syngas Biofuels Energy, Inc. exceptional team is precisely selected for the tasks set. Seasoned executives with the experts in successful metabolic engineering of low GC% content anaerobic microorganisms keep moving the mountain of making our gasoline market totally independent on the imported oil in a few years from now. As the result, our economy will thrive to benefit us and our children. Syngas Biofuels Energy, Inc. has a set of pending patents protecting its IP in the area of syngas bioconversion to biofuels and chemicals using genetically engineered microbial catalysts. Such patents include but are not limited to microbiology, physiology, chemical/physical mutagenesis, development of targeted molecular biology tools, metabolic engineering, validation of recombinants, and our unique syngas fermenting bioreactor design. Team of Syngas Biofuels Energy, Inc. The CEO with 33+ years of senior level managerial experience running incorporated R & D and engineering businesses, is the former Senior Engineering Manager at Baker-Hughes, former President of Baker-Hughes Russia who has increased the team size from 2 to 800, the CEO of Russian American Quality Contractor, founder of other companies in the field of biofuels and engineering service, expert in team-building / managing, project management / process and equipment design and development, bioreactor design. The President is a seasoned industrial microbiologist, veteran of the Small Business Initiative in biofuels and metabolic engineering as related to biofuels, molecular biology and biochemistry with 20+ years of postdoctoral experience, expert in syngas fermenting bacteria: metabolism, physiology, recombinant DNA delivery via electroporation and metabolic engineering for this group of microorganisms. Senior level Ph.D. - Scientists are microbiologists, molecular biologists, chemical engineers and enzymologists with 20+ years of postdoctoral experience with emphasis on process and bioreactor design for anaerobic product recovery. Ph.D. - level Scientists are anaerobic microbiologists and molecular biologists with experience working with metabolic engineering and fermentations. Experienced analytical technical specialist. Accountant/tax attorney, patent attorney, attorney and bookkeeper on as needed basis. Advisory Board of Syngas Biofuels Energy, Inc. Our Advisory Board includes prominent nationwide and internationally recognized
Syngas Biofuels Energy, Inc. is exceptionally well positioned in the market of biofuel technologies There are several groups of biofuel companies and none of them offers 97% raw material carbon recovery as a single biofuel product with zero carbon emissions: Sugars (including sugars derived from cellulosic biomass)-to-butanol (via Glycolysis) Amyris Biotechnologies, Gevo, Codexis-Shell consortium, LS9 as the competitor to Codexis, BP-DuPont consortium; TetraVitate Biosciences in particular, they are developing technologies for sugar/cellulosic biomass-to-butanol and sugars-to-oil or gasoline components based on sugar fermentations respectively with CO2 emissions. "Sugars-to-Oil / Oil Components" concept is the next to watch in development along with the "Biomass Myth" until its complete abandonment. This is an ultimate concept to make the most of the Humankind poor and hungry for the rest of their lives. Since there is no Perpetuum Mobile, this concept is equally non-viable along with the "Cellulosic Biomass Myth". Syngas-to-Fuel Gas Extenders Range Fuels - they are developing syngas-to-fuels via chemical synthesis. Gas-to-liquids technology is essentially a chemical catalysis of syngas. Chemical catalysis has low selectivity providing a variety of final products. It requires further processing for separation and purification of the products. It needs expensive catalysts for syngas "clean-up" and for catalysis itself. Such catalysts are based on rare and noble metals at a short life span. Syngas-to-liquids process has high O & M costs affecting the manufacturing cost of biofuels. Sasol widely used gas-to-liquids technology during the oil embargo era. Syngas-to-Ethanol
Sugars (including sugars derived from biomass)-to-ethanol (Glycolysis), high ethanol manufacturing costs Mascoma Corporation (partnered with Chevron), Verenium (partnered with BP to form Vercipia Biofuels), Qteros - they are developing cellulosic biomass-to-ethanol technologies based on sugar fermentation (glycolysis) with CO2 emissions. USE OF GLYCEROL AND METABOLIC PATHWAYS OTHER THAN GLYCOLYSIS TO PRODUCE FUEL GAS EXTENDERS Various kinds of fat (vegetable oil, algae, animal) are used to produce biodiesel. Glycerol is a waste product of biodiesel manufacture. It can be used as a substrate to produce fuel gas extender 1,3 - propanediol. This technology is used by Dupont Tate & Lyle Bioproducts, METabolic EXplorer, S.A., and some other companies. There are plans to use glycerol for production of other chemicals using genetically engineered microbial catalysts. Some of such technologies would produce no or little CO2. The growth of biodiesel manufacture depends on fat availability. The overall size of such market seems to be dynamically increasing. The Challenges Other Biofuel Companies Face
Current Trends on the Market of Fuel Gasoline Extenders Experts and market analysts agree that fuel gas extender ethanol has started “cooling down” (JUICE: Alternate Fuels World). Corn-to-ethanol process has proven itself as an expensive and thus, non-competitive process to gasoline manufacture. Ethanol from biomass is still more expensive than gasoline. There is no reliable economics providing for that biomass-to-ethanol or butanol would be less costly than known sugars-to-ethanol or butanol. There are estimates of biomass cost as a fuel at about $6.00 per 1 MM BTU. Ethanol is not the best choice as the gas extender since it is explosive and has fuel-to-air ratio higher than that of average gasoline. Thus ethanol-gasoline blends are not suited for high-performance engines. Also, wide use of gas extender ethanol raised environmental concerns in CA where massive use of ethanol blends already caused increase of ozone levels and is associated with acetaldehyde emissions by engines using such blends due to incomplete combustion process. Ethanol, a two-carbon alcohol with energy content of ~71 k BTU/gallon (compare to ~ 114.8 k BTU /gallon of gasoline), is corrosive due to its residual water content of ~4%. Ethanol distillation from “beer” liquid to ~96%, and then dehydration using molecular sieve to ~99.5%, both are high energy consuming steps. Dehydrated ethanol tends to re-capture water from the atmosphere during storage, transportation and blending. Butanol, a four-carbon alcohol with energy content of 112 k BTU/gallon, is almost perfect as a fuel gas extender. It is not explosive, and its fuel-to-gas ratio is very close to that of average gasoline. These properties make butanol a valuable component of fuel blends for high-performance engines. Butanol is not corrosive. Its boiling point at normal pressure of 117 o C is above water boiling point. Therefore butanol is easy to concentrate from water solutions by water evaporation instead of distillation. Butanol self-separates from water at concentrations above 10%. The only drawback of butanol is its somewhat high viscosity. Butanol viscosity is ~ 10 times higher than that of average gasoline, thus pure butanol will form gels in fuel lines at low temperatures. Gasoline blends with up to 60% butanol work perfectly even at cold temperatures. Venture capitalists look more often towards butanol manufacturing processes to establish a new market for fuel gas extender butanol. In particular, Virgin Fuels are not interested in backing numerous ethanol developers and producers, concentrating on support of development processes for fuel gas extender butanol. Indeed, instead of just 10% market penetration with fuel gas extender ethanol it is possible to penetrate $multi-billion (daily) gasoline market with butanol by 60%. |
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