CoolPlanetBioFuels is developing a revolutionary thermal/mechanical processor which directly inputs raw biomass such as woodchips, crop residue, algae, etc. and produces multiple distinct gas streams for catalytic upgrading to conventional fuel components.
In support of the above thermal/mechanical processor, the company is also developing a range of simple one-step catalytic conversion processes which mate with the processor’s output gas streams to produce useful products such as BTX, synthetic diesel and proprietary ultra-high crop yield super fuels.
CoolPlanetBioFuels plans to package its proprietary thermal/mechanical processor together with an “open architecture” chemical processing section in standard modular shipping containers which can each produce up to 1 million gallons of fuel per year. These modular fuel processors can be equipped with CoolPlanet’s catalytic conversion processes and/or your own selection of dryers, separators, catalytic processes, etc.
Fast thermal mechanical processing of biomass typically also produces a large quantity of neutral carbon since biomass has substantial excess carbon versus hydrogen when used to produce conventional petrochemical fuel components. The company is also developing carbon pelletizing technology and long term sequestration options for this excess carbon.
When the excess process carbon is used for fuel such as a coal substitute, the entire process is carbon neutral and, thus, produces both carbon neutral petrochemical compatible components and a carbon neutral coal substitute.
Alternately, if the excess carbon is sequestered long term as hard coal, the corresponding petrochemical components can have an N100 Negative Carbon Rating. That is, their use is not only carbon neutral in nature, but has associated with it, an equivalent amount of carbon sequestration, thus providing up to twice the global warming reduction benefits of today’s cleanest technologies such as solar or wind electricity production and solar or wind recharged electric vehicles. Thus, some of the worst gross polluters can instantly become the cleanest and greenest by adopting N100 fuels.
