Dynamotive’s Path

The Company followed the philosophy that having small scale processing plants (against micro and large scale plants) would provide an opportunity for efficient management of biomass resources and economic operation. The approach allows access to biomass pools that otherwise would not be commercially accessible and allows for the development of distributed fuel production plants.

Dynamotive technology is in its 5th generation, having progressed since 1995 to date from bench scale to first pilot at 500 kgs day and 2,000 kgs day, second pilot at 10,000 kgs day and 15,000 kgs day and first and second commercial at 130 and 200 tpd biomass input.

The Company also followed a product development path, aiming at producing renewable fuels from biomass that could be blended seamlessly with existing hydrocarbon fuels. The objective: integrating its products to existing infrastructure and engine technologies.

In doing so provide:

1. A Bio based refiners input that was competitively priced at source (Bio Oil).
2. A finished product that would be capable of competing on level terms with existing hydrocarbon based fuels (UBA – UBB).
3. A finished product that would be compatible with existing infrastructure thus avoiding cost and complexity of dedicated storage, delivery, blend ratios and engine platforms.

Dynamotive proposes today a practical alternative for advanced biofuels production and use which does not require subsidies to be cost competitive unlike ethanol and biodiesel fuels.

Dynamotive’s approach deals with the key barriers to such developments by adapting its technology platform to the natural limitations of biomass (low energy density, diffuse and cumbersome to handle) and developing fuels that are compatible to existing infrastructure.