[SPN-Discussion] Please Register Now: Major Breakthrough in Ethanol plus Digital Infrared Camera’s Environmental Uses

Tue Oct 10 08:08:39 PDT 2017

Please Register Now: Major Breakthrough in Ethanol plus Digital Infrared
Camera’s Environmental Uses

Date: Friday, October 13, 2017

Time: 8:00am – 10:00am

Organizer: Gelvin Stevenson, PhD

Host: Sidley Austin LLP

Location: 787 Seventh Ave. (AXA Equitable Building, between 51st and
52nd Streets),
23rd Floor

Vertimass LLC is commercializing a novel catalyst technology that overcomes
several barriers that have prevented ethanol from taking over a much larger
share of the liquid fuel market. Vertimass’s ethanol can be used in jet
fuel and heavy-duty vehicles and, most significantly, does not have to be
capped at 10% of the automotive mix. Plus, Vertimass’s ethanol is fungible
with petroleum fuels for transport via existing pipelines.

Most fuel ethanol is currently produced from starch in the United States
and cane sugar in Brazil, and new technologies are emerging for ethanol
production from cellulosic biomass such as wood, grasses, and agricultural
and forestry residues. However, most ethanol in the United States is used
as 10% blends with gasoline, and current U.S. ethanol production has
virtually saturated that market as a result of the “blend wall.” In
addition, ethanol’s properties make it ill-suited for air transportation or
powering heavy-duty vehicles. Ethanol also suffers from concerns about its
compatibility with the existing fuel infrastructure. Thus, even though
ethanol is the lowest cost alternative fuel, these factors present a major
impediment to expanding production and overall growth in production of
sustainable transportation fuels.

To solve these problems, Vertimass LLC, was awarded the exclusive license
to a novel catalyst technology developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
for conversion of ethanol into jet fuel, diesel fuel, and gasoline
hydrocarbon blend stocks that are compatible with the current
transportation fuel infrastructure. This technology allows ethanol
producers the flexibility to make other fuel products that can take
advantage of market conditions and break through the ethanol blend wall.
Additionally, this simple operation can be bolted onto existing or grass
roots ethanol plants with very low capital and operating costs while
providing fuel flexibility and possibly replacing dehydration and
rectification operations.

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*Register at the GIF Eventbrite page:* GIF: October 13: Vertimass (Ethanol
Breakthrough) & Direct Digital Infrared Camera
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greentech-investors-friday-oct-13-vertimass-making-ethanol-mainstream-tickets-38623126812>

*Or contact Gelvin at **gelvin.stevenson at gmail.com*
<gelvin.stevenson at gmail.com>*.*

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*Why it is attractive for investors:* Vertimass engaged TechnipFMC, widely
recognized as catalyst scale-up experts, to develop data in their pilot
plant to provide the platform from which to start design and construction
of commercial bolt-ons within two years.  The U.S. Department of Energy
selected Vertimass for a $2.0 million award from a highly competitive
solicitation to accelerate commercialization of this groundbreaking
approach. Vertimass plans to partner with ethanol producers to integrate
this novel technology into existing ethanol plants (currently ~220 US
ethanol plants) as rapidly as possible to overcome the blend wall for light
duty vehicles as well as open up new ethanol markets for aircraft and
heavy-duty vehicles and help the airline industry achieve sustainable
aviation fuel targets. Overall, Vertimass technology has the potential to
expand opportunities to use ethanol from corn in the United States, cane
sugar in Brazil, and cellulosic biomass worldwide. Simply put: capital
needs are small; payoff could be large.

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*GIF thanks Investors Circle for its generous support, Geoff Miles,
Chino Maduagwu, and Gary Kier for developing and operating GIF’s video,
social media and design capabilities, Tonia Popke for her financial
expertise, and Jesse Goldstein, PhD, for his continued support.*

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*Direct Digital Infrared Camera*: In place of a Sector Expert this time,
Direct Digital IR, Inc. (D2IR) will update us on the progress it has made
since it presented February 10th of this year, and discuss its potential
markets in the detection and diagnosis of environmental issues.

D2IR has developed and patented the first Direct-to-Digital infrared
camera. The technology is less expensive and has higher quality than
current infrared cameras, which are analog and have inherent noise problems
that are mitigated by D2IR’s direct to digital technology. The company will
return to describe its progress since then (including several new patents)
and to describe how it can be used for a wide variety of environmental
purposes. For example, when the D2IR camera is mounted on a drone, it will
be able to monitor such conditions as: methane leaks from gas and oil
pipelines and from the ground, storm-surge and wind damage to
infrastructure and communities, powerline conditions, transformer overloads
and fires and refinery conditions and security—before it becomes critical,
by reading early heat signals.

In Agriculture, a drone-mounted D2IR camera can monitor water resources,
soil conditions and optimum time and amounts to water, fertilize and
harvest agricultural crops, and insect damage.

For natural disasters, it could monitor earthquakes, underwater lava
releases (from the surface water temperature), spot early dry conditions in
forests to reduce the incidence of potential fires.

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*Disclaimer: The Greentech Investors Forum (GIF) is not soliciting funds
for the presenting companies, nor is it encouraging parties to invest in
them. We try to find good companies—not necessarily good investments. They
have been advised on what is acceptable in terms of predicted results, but
GIF takes no responsibility for what they actually do, say, or how they
perform in the future. Gelvin Stevenson is or may be working with any
presenting company individually.*

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*Agenda:*          8:00 to 8:30     -   Networking & light breakfast

8:30 to 9:10     -   Presentation: Dr. John R. Hannon, COO, Vertimass LLC

9:10 to 9:40     -   Update: Direct Digital Infrared Camera: Peter Kaufman,
Founder and CEO

9:40 to 10:00   -   Discussion

*Security:*        Security is tight, so please register early. If there is
a problem at the Security Desk, please contact Gelvin Stevenson at
917-599-6089 <(917)%20599-6089>.

*Fees:*               Please register on Eventbrite:

$50, payable ahead of time or at the door. Cash or checks and credit cards
accepted.

$25 for call-in. Registered call-ins will be emailed the call-in numbers
and, if available, the slides to be presented.

                        $20 for students and faculty

With questions, please visit Greentech Investors Forum
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greentech-investors-forum-applying-big-data-to-climate-change-risk-tickets-27421621809>’s
Eventbrite site, or send your contact information to Gelvin Stevenson at
gelvin.stevenson at gmail.com or 917-599-6089 <(917)%20599-6089>. And
contact Gelvin If you have questions or need more information.

*Bios:*

*Vertimass:* Dr. John R. Hannon has worked over 15 years in the both the
oil industry working with Schlumberger in exploration and in the renewable
fuel industry with Mascoma on cellulosic ethanol. His expertise is in
process economics, scale-up, technical due diligence, and identifying
critical technical areas for cost improvements. He has also severed as an
independent technical due diligence expert for investment firms in
renewable energy space. He holds a PhD in Engineering Sciences from
Dartmouth College and BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from
Northeastern University. As the Chief Operating Officer of Vertimass LLC,
Dr. Hannon directs, administers, and coordinates internal operational
activities to include successful advancement and scale-up of the
technology, plant operations, partnering, and coordination. He assists the
CEO in the development of Corporation’s goals that cover operations,
financial performance, and growth of the business.

*Direct Digital Infrared Camera:* *Peter N. Kaufman President, CTO,
Co-founder, and President:* has over 30 years of product engineering and
product development.  He is an expert in imaging materials science, optical
engineering & has multiple patents and publications to his credit.

Peter has over 30 years’ experience as an engineer & consultant in the
electronics manufacturing and product design industry, and an extensive
array of industry contacts and resources. He has participated in a very
wide variety of project areas in product development and R&D, and has
always called on my creativity and expertise to apply technologies state of
the art to new products and to improve on existing systems. He has
developed patents in electro-optical, optical, imaging, photonics,
magnetics, and semiconductor device development.

Peter has done product development and production Firematic, Law
Enforcement, Corrections and Emergency Services products in a large number
of areas, including: optics, video, touch sensors, power systems, broadcast
and closed circuit RF, power line RF, radiation safety, abatement and
compliance, power and control audio, speaker development, fiber optics,
motor technology, thermodynamics, energy management, security electronics,
electronics packaging, video monitors, µC system hardware design,
interfacing, control and sensing software, specialized low power RF,
vertically polarized RF systems, law enforcement products, Firematic
products, audio enhancement systems, Ultra Wide Band optics and lenses,
Multi-Spectral imaging camera design, semiconductor wafer fabrication
design, MEMS design, laser illumination, laser targeting, laser distance
measurement, ballistics engineering, photonic detonators, laser
communications, electronic toys & others. Compliance engineering & agency
approvals include: UL, CSA, VDE, FCC, FDA, MP3, etc.

He has worked with such organizations as: General Motors: Delco Radio
Division & Delco Remy Motor Division, Apple Computer, Phillips/Amperex,
NASA, NYC Board of Education, US Postal Service, Dept. of Justice, Federal
Bureau of Prisons, NYPD, NYC Dept. of Corrections, Altec Lansing, Atari,
Sony, Hitachi, EDS/Vanstar etc. Patents and Publications.
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