[SPN-Discussion] Please register: Friday, June 11 NY Funders breakfast features Biofine Technologies--Transforming Waste Biomass into Petroleum Additives That Improve Biodiesel

[Gelvin Stevenson]

Call-in available. 

 

Please join us Friday, June 11, to hear about Biofine Technology's patented
biofuel process which refines low grade cellulosic biomass feedstock into
three refinery products:  Levulinic Acid, a versatile platform chemical,
Formic Acid and Furfural-commodity chemicals---and a carbonaceous powder
("Char") that will be burned or gasified to produce steam and electric power
in amounts that exceed the facility's power needs.  

 

These chemicals can be sold or transformed into higher value derivative
products.

 

Biofine has chosen Ethyl Levulinate, a green fuel oil replacement, or
blendstock, as its first high volume derivative product and has selected
home heating oil as its target market, because it has the lowest barrier to
entry.  The National Oil Heat Research Alliance (NOHRA) has blessed
Biofine's product, along with biodiesel, as heating oil
complements/supplements. 

 

Ethyl levulinate improves biodiesel by enhancing its cold flow properties,
and has an excellent Greenhouse Gas (GHG) profile - reducing CO2 by at least
90% by comparison to gasoline or diesel fuel and 45% to biodiesel. This will
allow significant GHG improvements in heating oil at the NOHRA initial
target concentration of 5%. 

 

The Biofine process also produces a green formic acid that can be marketed
at half the current market price for petroleum-based formic acid. With that
cost reduction, formic acid could be used in applications like de-icers
(calcium formate) and instead of urea for removing nitrogen oxides from
power plant and automobile emissions. The final product is char, which can
be used to generate electric and/or heat energy, making the biorefinery
energy self-sufficient. 

 

This simple process (requiring only pressure, temperature, and (mostly
recycled) sulfuric acid), with flexible feedstock requirements and virtually
no waste, enables cellulosic biomass to displace crude oil as a major
primary source of several fuels and chemicals. It is economically viable
when oil is $60-70/bbl. A state-of-the-art pilot plant with associated
testing laboratories is in service at Gorham, ME. 

 

More information is available at www.ceepinc.org. 

 

Register by sending an email to donna at ceepinc.orgThis e-mail address is
being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with
your contact information.  Please bring payment of $50 to the program.

 

Call-ins are available. Specify call-in in your email to Donna and send her
a check or request a credit card form for the $25 fee. 

 

Please contact me with any questions.

 

Regards,

Gelvin 

 

Gelvin Stevenson, Ph.D.

Program Director 

Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership, Inc.

212-222-4369

917-599-6089

 

Venue: 8:00am (presentation begins at 8:30am) at Dickstein Shapiro, LP, 1633
Broadway, 32nd floor, btwn 50th & 51st streets

 

 

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