Advantages

Design Simplicity/Scalability
The Dynamotive Fast Pyrolysis process is based on a bubbling fluid-bed design, which has well-known and scalable engineering parameters. Competing technologies are based on more novel and complex designs with unknown scale factors. The biofuels plant design is based on fabrication off-site and modular construction on-site.

Energy Costs
The volatility and upward tendency of energy prices over recent years has forced both industrial and individual consumers of energy to evaluate alternative, reliable and economic sources of renewable energy.

Capital and Operating Cost
The overall simplicity of design and commercial availability of components makes our process less expensive to build and operate.

Greenhouse Gas (“GHG”) Offsets
Production of BioOil is a significant source of GHG credits as Dynamotive’s process is considered CO2 neutral with negligible SOx and low NOx. For companies that produce GHG’s, energy from Dynamotive’s technology can act as an effective GHG hedge.

Tax and Investment Incentives
Numerous tax penalties for fossil fuel use, some dramatic tax incentives and direct subsidies for renewable energy in many industrialized countries are also driving demand.

Biofuel’s Yield
The yield of biofuel from our technology is estimated to be higher than yields from competing technologies and does not produce any waste products.

Product Yields and Quality
Yields of biofuel up to 72% for hard woods and 65% for grasses (sugarcane bagasse, switchgrass, etc.) have been achieved. Bark and other biomass residues yield in the range of 62% to 70%. Oil quality and characteristics have been independently verified by SGS. Dynamotive has been conducting quality tests at its own facilities as well. Quality parameters met or exceeded Magellan Aerospace requirements. Dynamotive has successfully proven its biofuels use in a gas turbine.

The Dynamotive process also competes with the simpler and more mature gasification processes. In recent years, gasification technology has been demonstrated in a variety of combined heat and power applications, but still relies on traditional fuel storage handling. The major advantage of pyrolysis over gasification is the ability to convert biomass into liquid, which can be stored and transported. This enables production to be decoupled from end users. Dynamotive’s biofuels can be produced in locations where there is an abundance of feedstock, and shipped by rail or sea to market. The products of gasification must be used onsite immediately after they are produced which limits market applications and flexibility.

Biomass Waste Opportunity
Worldwide 130 billion tonnes of biomass are grown annually on land. It is the fourth largest energy source after coal, oil, and natural gas. Agriculture and forestry activities alone produce billions of tonnes of cellulose waste, much suitable for pyrolysis treatment.

Biomass Waste Disposal Regulation and Liabilities
The forestry and agricultural industries together comprise the large majority of biomass feedstock in the world. These industries have recognized that high disposal cost and environmental liabilities associated with their waste organic residues, represent a significant waste to energy conversion and a cost avoidance opportunity.