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    Hybrid XTL BiorefineryNatural Gas-to-Petroleum Biorefinery Cum Zero-

    Carbon-Emission Power Plant

    The United States is currently awashed with natural gas.

    Production outpaces demand, putting downward

    pressure on prices. With the maturation of hydraulic

    fracturing and horizontal drilling technologies, the vast

    reserves of natural gas trapped in gas shale formationsunderlying vast areas of continental United States are

    now unlocked for long term production. With gas prices

    hovering south of $15.00 per barrel of oil equivalent

    (BOE), and crude oil prices hovering north of $100.00

    per barrel, technical arbitrage exists for converting it to

    drop-in transportation fuels. BioSyns breakthrough

    technology architecture for conversion of natural gas to

    synthetic petroleum at the same CAPEX as conventional

    petroleum refinery, in conjunction with building a zero-

    carbon-emission power generation plant, represents a

    credible pathway towards solving the countrys energyindependence problem. The same technology

    architecture breakthrough addresses the issue of carbon

    mitigation in generating power.

    BioSyn Resources, LLC

    4/19/2012

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    Hybrid XTL Biorefinery:

    Natural-Gas-to-Petroleum Biorefinery Cum Zero-Carbon-Emission Power Generation Plant

    White Paper

    Deo C. Reloj

    BioSyn Resources, LLC

    April 17, 2012

    Summary

    The American Gas Association estimates

    that the countrys national inventory of

    gas reserves at the end of 2011 stands at

    about 300 trillion cubic feet (TCF)1. ThePotential Gas Committee (PGC) of the

    Colorado School of Mines reported in

    2011 that the estimated U.S. future gas

    supply for the year ending in 2010 was

    2,170 TCF2.

    With continuing technological

    developments and improvements in

    hydraulic fracturing and horizontal

    drilling techniques in unlocking the vast

    reserves of natural gas embedded in gas

    shale formations that underlie a large

    portion of continental United States, the replacement rate for the on-the-shelf reserves

    inventory will continue to increase. This will further put downward pressure on already historic

    law prices of natural gas.

    Meanwhile, petroleum based transportation fuels which are tethered to highly volatile world

    prices of crude oil, continue to rise. This gave rise to an unusual local phenomenon: an

    unprecedented large price differential between natural gas and petroleum based

    1300 TCF is equivalent to about 50 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE). This represents about 7 years of current

    crude oil imports of the country. http://www.aga.org/Kc/analyses-and-statistics/studies/supply/Documents/EA%202012-02%20Preliminary%20Reserves%202011.pdf

    22170 TCF is equivalent to about 361 billion BOE. This is more than the proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia for the

    year 2011, which was only 262.6 billion barrels at the end of 2011.

    Box 1. Gas shale formations in the United States

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    transportation fuels. Expressed in barrels of oil equivalent (BOE), natural gas prices have been

    dropping to now less than $15.00 while diesel continues to hover at more than $150.

    This large price differential creates a technical arbitrage opportunity: the conversion of a $15-

    per-barrel feedstock into $150-per-barrel drop-in, infrastructure-ready transportation fuels3.

    BioSyn has the technical wherewithal to, and will, exploit this as a business opportunity. It will

    also attempt to transform this opportunity into a template for addressing strategic issues

    relating to the countrys need for achieving energy independence objectives, sustainable power

    generation, and oil industry compliance with regulatory and legislative mandates for RSF2 fuel

    specifications.

    BioSyn has identified, and will employ, the best commercially available technologies needed in

    its technology architecture to construct the conversion facilities. It has also identified, and will

    employ, commercially established technologies needed in its technology architecture to

    construct zero-carbon-emission power plants that will be fueled by pure hydrogen produced in

    excess by said conversion facilities.BioSyns proprietary technology architecture provides the enabling mechanism to integrate said

    commercially established technologies to build the conversion facility and power plant.

    Initially, BioSyn will build a 300-bpd commercial demonstration biorefinery to showcase its

    technology architecture. In this regard, it has secured the process license for a 4th

    generation

    Fischer-Tropsch technology4.

    The techno-economic information and operational experience that BioSyn and its process

    licensors, engineering partners and contractors will gather from the construction and operation

    of the demonstration plant, will form the basis for the construction of larger commercial plants.

    3Drop-in transportation fuels are infrastructure ready fuels that can be mixed with conventional petroleum based

    fuels in any proportion without the need for engine modification. Thus, a drop-in ultraclean gasoline made fromnatural gas can blended with conventional gasoline in any proportion without damaging side effects on the

    unmodified gasoline engine.

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    thgeneration Fischer-Tropsch technology produces light and middle distillates of about 25% isoparafinnic

    composition with less than 200-ppm oxygenates. This obviates the need for capital intensive hydrocracking blocks

    normally needed in 3rd

    generation plants.

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    Hybrid XTL Biorefinery:

    Natural-Gas-to-Petroleum Biorefinery Cum Zero-Carbon-Emission Power Generation Plant

    White Paper

    BioSyn Resources, LLCApril 17, 2012

    Introduction

    There has never been a period in the history

    of the United States during which the price

    differential between two (2) ubiquitous

    energy carrier groups5

    has become so large

    it boggles the mind of an astute observer as

    to how it ever happened!

    As of the time of this writing, natural gas

    prices hover around $15.00 per barrel of oil

    equivalent (BOE), while

    liquid transportation

    fuels, like gasoline and

    diesel, fetch around$150.00 per barrel.

    The first energy carrier

    group is in gaseous state

    while the second energy carrier group is in

    5The two energy carrier groups referred to in this

    Paper are 1) natural gas and 2) liquid transportation

    fuels. The first category refers to methane from all

    sources, including conventional natural gas, shale

    gas, coal bed methane, etc. The latter refers to

    gasoline, diesel and jet fuels. Kerosene is the base

    material for jet fuels. Heating oil is the same as

    diesel. The two are lumped together under liquid

    transportation fuels.

    liquid state. Both can be converted to a

    desired physical state. Thus, natural gas can

    be converted to diesel and vice versa.

    Commercially available conversion

    technologies from reputable process

    licensors in the oil and petrochemical

    industries abound. Natural gas conversion

    technologies, also known as GTL

    technologies, produce drop-in,

    infrastructure ready,

    ultraclean transportation

    fuels.

    In this regard, arbitrageopportunity exists

    because natural gas,

    given its very low price,

    can be converted to drop-in liquid

    transportation fuels at a cost level that will

    still leave plenty of room for a healthy profit

    margin.

    It is important to note that the prices of

    these two energy carrier groups are caused

    by disparate market forces. The low natural

    gas prices are a local phenomenon with no

    bearing at all on the interplay of forces and

    events in the international marketplace. In

    Box 2. Arbitrage opportunity

    arbitrage opportunity exists because

    natural gas, given its very low price, can

    be converted to drop-in liquid

    transportation fuels at a cost level that

    will still leave plenty of room for a

    healthy profit margin.

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    addition, there are no existing

    infrastructures to export excess local

    production. Natural gas in the United States

    is basically insulated from world market

    forces at this time

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    .

    In contrast, the prices of liquid

    transportation fuels are dictated by world

    market forces, including geo-political events

    and wholesale manipulators, as well as

    institutional speculators that add about

    20% more to the demand/supply-

    determined prices. In fact, although the

    country currently is a net exporter of

    finished petroleum products, the local

    prices of these commodities are on the

    upward trajectory.

    Not surprisingly, prices of said energy

    carrier groups have been heading in

    divergent directions in the last few months.

    Needless to say, there exists a unique

    window of opportunity for a technical

    arbitrage play.

    BioSyns Arbitrage Play

    Taking advantage of the unique arbitrage

    opportunity that currently exists, BioSyn

    decided to revise its construction plans by

    6In April 15, 2012, Cheniere Energy Inc. won federal

    approval to build a $10-billion natural-gas export

    terminal adjacent to its Sabine Pass gas-import

    terminal in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Assuming no

    delays, this terminal will be operational in 2016.

    implementing a portion of the 4th

    phase7

    of

    its biorefinery project ahead of schedule.

    BioSyns arbitrage play and philosophy are,

    in principle, simple and straight forward.

    Using commercially established unit

    processes configured in BioSyns

    proprietary technology architecture, it will

    convert natural gas into liquid

    transportation fuels at the same CAPEX cost

    of construction as a conventional oil

    refinery. The use of best available

    technologies results in lower OPEX costs

    than those employed in converting

    conventional crude oil into premium liquid

    transportation fuels. BioSyn will also do this

    at the same economies of scale as a typical

    oil refinery, which is between 50,000

    100,000 barrels per day (bpd).

    Additional Benefits

    Zero-Carbon Power Plant. BioSyns refinery

    will produce excess hydrogen in quantities

    that could not all be absorbed by traditional

    industrial users. In this regard, a

    cogeneration power plant driven by

    hydrogen-powered gas turbine will be built.

    Fueled by pure hydrogen, this power plant

    will emit no carbon dioxide.

    Model for Large Scale Emulation. BioSyn

    envisions that its business model and

    7The 4

    thphase of BioSyns construction plan calls for

    the construction of a refinery island that is

    feedstock-flexible and biomass-centric. It will make

    use of locally available and abundant feedstocks,

    such as natural gas and Bitumen, among others.

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    technology architecture will create a model

    that others will follow. Its large scale

    adoption will address a number of

    important national issues that the country

    faces today, to wit:

    Skyrocketing gasoline, diesel, jet fueland heating oil prices,

    Energy independence, Trade imbalance, Generation of jobs that cannot be

    outsourced,

    Greenhouse gas emissions, and RFS2 mandates.

    Current State of Conversion Technology

    and Current Players

    Synthesis Gas Production. Different

    technologies for producing synthesis gas

    from different feedstocks are well known

    processes. Gasification can be employed for

    different kinds of feedstocks. Steam

    reforming is used for gaseous and liquid

    hydrocarbons.

    The production of synthesis gas from

    natural gas using steam methane reforming

    (SMR) is a well-established and mature

    technology. It is the dominant technology in

    producing synthesis gas for the production

    of commodity products like urea, ammonia,

    methanol and other industrial chemicals.

    Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis. Converting

    synthesis gas into synthetic petroleum is

    not a new phenomenon. The basic

    technology, Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis,

    is a well known process that dates back to

    the 1920s when Fischer and Tropsch, two

    German scientists that discovered the

    process, first synthesized coal-derived

    synthesis gas to petroleum.

    Product Upgrading. The crude synthetic

    petroleum oil produced by Fischer-Tropsch

    synthesis requires further processing in

    order to convert it into drop-in

    transportation fuels. Depending upon the

    catalysts used in the synthesis process,

    different synthetic crude oils are produced.

    And depending upon the quality of crude

    oils produced, a particular facility will

    require specific technologies for upgrading.

    For example, Sasol Oryxs conversion facility

    uses cobalt catalyst that produce waxy and

    largely normal paraffinic hydrocarbons with

    some oxygenates. It uses Chevrons

    Isocracking technology to hydrocrack and

    deoxygenate the crude oil. It is then

    fractionated to different product streams.

    Current Players. Most oil majors have

    Fischer-Tropsch synthesis in their respective

    technology portfolios. Sasol, South Africas

    national oil company, is the pioneer in 2nd

    generation large scale installations. Shell

    constructed a 3rd

    generation refinery in

    Qatar8. Chevron has an ongoing project that

    constructs a similar plant in Nigeria with a

    rated capacity of 34,000 bpd.

    8Shells Pearl project produces 140,000 bpd of

    synthetic crude and 120,000 bpd of natural gas

    liquids (NGL). Its price tag is $19 billion. Sasol Oryx is

    also a 3rd

    generation refinery rated at 34,000 bpd

    with a price tag of $1 billion.

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    In addition, there are a number of

    development companies that have

    developed their own FT technologies whose

    business models are to monetize stranded

    and associated gases

    9

    . Their hardwaresystems are, therefore, designed for small

    scale production.

    In contrast, Shell, Sasol and Chevron plants

    have rated capacities to the same level as

    conventional oil refineries.

    Current Players Business Models

    Conventional business models call for the

    XTL refineries10

    to be built in close proximity

    to feedstock sources, and under long term

    supply agreements with feedstock

    suppliers. Shells Pearl refinery, for

    example, was built in proximity to Qatars

    North field that has 900 TCF in proven

    reserves of natural gas, under a supply

    agreement with Qatars state-owned

    national oil company.

    9Some of the development companies that claim to

    be in the cusp of commercialization or ready to

    commercialize or have started to commercialize are

    Velocys, Oxford Catalysts, Syntroleum, Rentech and

    CompactGTL.

    10 The industry uses the general terminology XTL to

    refer to conversion of synthesis gas to liquid

    hydrocarbons via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis using

    different feedstocks. If the feedstock is natural gas,

    GTL is used. If the feedstock is biomass, BTL is

    used.

    Big players like Shell, Chevron and Sasol

    build large scale XTL refineries to achieve

    economies of scale11

    .

    Small players adopt essentially the same

    business model, but target associated gases

    in smaller fields. They develop their own

    proprietary hardware with smaller

    footprints and capacities to cater to smaller

    wellheads. In both cases, XTL refinery

    operations are co-terminus with the

    depletion of the feedstock supplies at the

    source.

    BioSyns Business Model

    BioSyn adopts the business model of most

    oil refineries with respect to refinery siting.

    Conventional oil refineries can be built

    independent of the location of the

    feedstock source. There are many oil

    refineries built in countries that have no

    endogenous crude oil resources. Oil

    refineries in Japan and Singapore are primeexamples. Oil refineries from these

    countries simply source their crude oil from

    the international market. Interestingly

    enough, tiny Singapore exports more

    11Shells Pearl project has a price tag of $19 Billion

    for a total rated capacity of 260,000 bpd, or $73,760

    per daily barrel (pdb). Sasol Oryxs price tag is $1

    Billion for 34,000 bpd, or $29,000 pdb11

    . Chevron

    Escravos GTLs 34,000-bpd project in Nigeria has

    escalated to more than $6 Billion or $176,470 pdb.

    In contrast, a moderately complex conventional oil

    refinery costs about $20,000 pdb to construct.

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    finished petroleum products than the

    United States.

    In similar fashion, BioSyn will build its XTL

    refinery independent of the location of

    feedstock source. Its feedstock supplies will

    come from a combination of purchases

    from the open spot market, long term

    supply contracts and hedging strategies.

    The Arbitrage Scenario

    There are three (3) fundamental factors

    that led to current

    historic lows in natural

    gas prices in the country.

    They are:

    Discovery anddevelopment of

    large gas shale

    formations,

    Maturation ofhydraulic

    fracturing andhorizontal drilling

    technologies, and

    Lack of exportinfrastructures

    12.

    As of the time of this writing, natural gas

    prices in the United States breached the

    12In April 15, 2012, Cheniere Energy Inc. won federal

    approval to build a $10-billion natural-gas export

    terminal adjacent to its Sabine Pass gas-import

    terminal in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Assuming no

    delays, this terminal will be operational in 2016.

    $2.00-per-million-btu line while prices in

    Asia are in the $15-per-million-btu level.

    Meanwhile, liquid fuels are tethered to

    world crude oil prices which are projected

    to remain above the $100-per-barrel level.

    Crude oil prices are not only a function of

    supply and demand. They are also

    influenced by:

    winds and drama of geopolitics supply disruptions due to:

    accidents terrorist

    sabotage

    and/or

    threats of

    sabotage

    weather OPEC whims Trader

    speculations

    The two market theaterscreated a huge price

    differential between the

    two energy carrier

    groups, i.e., between natural gas and liquid

    fuels (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel).

    At $15 per barrel of oil equivalent for

    natural gas and $150 per barrel for liquid

    fuels, the $135-per-barrel price differential

    creates a compelling case for an arbitrage

    play.

    To describe the technical arbitrage play

    simply, natural gas can be converted into

    Box 3. Compelling case for arbitrage play

    At $15 per barrel of oil equivalent for

    natural gas and $150 per barrel for

    liquid fuels, the $135-per-barrel price

    differential creates a compelling case

    for an arbitrage play.

    To describe the technical arbitrage

    play simply, natural gas can be

    converted into liquid transportation

    fuels at conversion costs that will stillallow plenty of room for attractive

    profit margins.

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    liquid transportation fuels at conversion

    costs that will still allow plenty of room for

    attractive profit margins.

    Technology blocks for the conversion of

    natural gas to liquid fuels are commercially

    available. In fact, a number of large scale

    projects are already on-stream. However,

    they are located overseas.

    Employing older

    generation

    technologies, these

    projects were built at

    higher CAPEXexpenditures compared

    to constructing

    conventional oil

    refineries. The high

    CAPEX costs, however,

    were compensated by

    constructing large scale

    plants to achieve the

    required economies ofscale for profitable

    operations.

    Long Term Prognosis

    for Continued Price

    Divergence between the Two Energy

    Carrier Groups

    Wet natural gas wellheads produce natural

    gas liquids (NGL) or condensates (NGC),besides methane, the principal component

    of pipeline natural gas. NGL or NGC is

    equivalent to naphtha, a product of crude

    oil atmospheric fractionation.

    Naphtha, being the basic raw material for

    conventional gasoline production and an

    important petrochemical feedstock, fetches

    a premium price over crude oil.

    Natural gas producers actually prefer NGL,

    which is liquid, over natural gas (primarily

    methane), which is gas. But as NGL is

    produced in wet natural gas wellheads, so is

    natural gas also. Even if natural gas is given

    away or flared out,

    operators of wet

    natural gas wellheads

    will still continue to

    make generate profits

    even on NGL

    production alone.

    Given the above

    scenario, and given the

    vast deposits of shale

    natural gas now being

    unlocked, natural gas

    (methane) will continueto flow into the market

    despite its greatly

    depressed prices.

    Meanwhile, in the

    world theater, crude oil prices will continue

    to remain high driven by increasing

    demands from industrializing countries like

    China, India and Brazil.

    In addition, governments of oil producing

    countries that depend primarily on oil

    revenues for budgetary support will

    collectively employ price support

    Box 4. Real drivers for high prices of crude

    oil in the world market.

    CNNs Zakaria contends that the real drivers

    of high prices of crude oil are governments of

    oil producing countries in need of budgetary

    support. The above picture shows the

    respective prices of crude oil that these

    governments need to maintain to balance

    their respective budgets.

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    mechanisms that maintain high prices for

    oil.

    BioSyn Technology Architecture

    BioSyn will only use commerciallyestablished unit processes in its technology

    architecture. The unit processes will be

    provided by reputable process licensors and

    come with process guarantees.

    BioSyns approach is not unlike Sasols

    technology architecture for its Oryx GTL

    project. The synthesis gas production unit is

    an auto-thermal reformer supplied by

    Haldor-Topse13.

    Sasol employed its own Slurry Phase

    Distillate (Sasol SPD) process for Fischer-

    Tropsch synthesis of syngas to long chain

    hydrocarbons or synthetic crude.

    Sasol itself is a world-renowned process

    licensor for Sasol SPD.

    Chevron supplied the hydrocrackingtechnology to upgrade the synthetic crude

    produced by the Sasol SPD unit.

    All of the three (3) major technology blocks

    are individually stand-alone units that are

    used in other oil refineries and

    petrochemical plants around the world.

    13Haldor-Topse is multi-billion dollar Danish

    company that specializes in the production of

    heterogeneous catalysts and the design of process

    plants based on catalytic processes. It caters to the

    fertilizer industry, chemical and petrochemical

    industries, and the energy sector (oil refineries and

    power plants).

    Chevrons Isocracking Unit

    Using a similar approach, BioSyn will use

    the latest generation and enhanced steam

    methane reforming (SMR) technology to

    produce syngas from natural gas. Unlike

    gasification or auto-thermal reforming

    technologies, SMR will not need oxygen

    input. This precludes the need for the

    installation of an expensive air separation

    unit14 (ASU), thereby significantly reducing

    the CAPEX requirement for the project.

    For its Fischer-Tropsch unit, BioSyn will use

    a 4th

    generation technology that will

    produce long chain hydrocarbons that are

    about 40% isoparaffinic in the C4-C20

    range, with about 5% C21+ composition.

    Unlike 3rd generation F-T technologies, the

    product yield will not contain oxygenates.

    14An Air Separation Unit (ASU) represents a major

    CAPEX item in large scale XTL projects.

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    The product slate avoids the need for

    deoxygenation, hydrogenation and

    isomerisation units, all of which are capital

    intensive processes. This further reduces

    the CAPEX requirement of the project to asignificant degree.

    The plant will produce excess hydrogen,

    which can be sold to traditional industrial

    users. For large scale plants that will

    produce large volumes of hydrogen, BioSyn

    will put up a combined-cycle power plant

    that will be fueled by pure hydrogen.

    The use of pure hydrogen as fuel will makethe plant zero-carbon emission plant.

    4th

    generation 500-bpd GTL plant in Japan

    Making the Refinery Green and the Fuels

    RFS2 Compliant

    BioSyn will install a biomass gasification

    island to produce synthesis gas from

    biomass materials that will be co-fed with

    syngas produced from SMR units.

    In future large scale plants, large volumes of

    biomass for gasification will be needed. At

    that time, BioSyn enter into supply

    agreements with farmers who will farm fast

    growing dedicated energy crops in marginal

    and under-utilized lands.

    As a logistics strategy, BioSyn will build

    pyrolysis plants in proximity to farms to

    densify the biomass to pyrolysis oil for cost

    effective transportation to BioSyns XTL

    refinery. At that time, the feedstock to the

    gasification units will be pyrolysis oils.

    Biochar produced from pyrolysis plants will

    be marketed as soil conditioners. Leaving

    biochar in the ground as soil conditioner

    will not only improve the soil quality foragriculture; it is also an excellent long term

    carbon sequestration strategy.

    Biochar

    The overall architecture involving long term

    carbon sequestration will make BioSyns

    XTL biorefinery carbon negative.

    CAPEX and OPEX Requirements

    BioSyns XTL plant will have the same CAPEX

    expenditures as conventional oil refineries

    of the same capacity and product slate

    quality.

    The OPEX will be slightly lower than

    producing similar premium transportation

    fuels out of conventional crude oil.

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    The feedstock cost is, at the time of this

    writing, about 10% of crude oil prices.

    Commercial Demonstration Plant

    4th

    Generation Fischer-Tropsch Plant.BioSynwill first build a 300-bpd commercial

    demonstration plant based on a 4th

    generation Fischer-Tropsch synthesis

    technology.

    Feedstocks. This plant will use natural gas

    and carbon dioxide as feedstocks.

    The carbon dioxide feedstock will be

    produced from the water gas shift (WGSR)unit of the syngas block. The demo plant

    will produce excess hydrogen which will be

    sold to industrial users.

    F-T Reactor Footprint. The demo plant will

    feature a very small Fischer-Tropsch reactor

    footprint. Its diameter will only be 1.0

    meter and its height will be 6.0 meters.

    Licensing Agreement.BioSyn entered into aspecial licensing agreement with its primary

    process licensor for the 4th

    generation 300-

    bpd demonstration plant. The process

    licensor will provide the basic technology

    design and basic engineering design. The

    said process licensor will also provide all the

    catalysts needed for synthesis gas

    production and Fischer-Tropsch synthetic

    crude production under favorable terms.

    The construction of this demonstration

    plant will enable BioSyn to gain valuable

    techno-economic data and operational

    experience it will need in improving its

    technology architecture, design and

    engineering for large scale 4th

    generation

    plants in the future.

    Pilot plant of BioSyns process licensor for the

    4

    th

    generation Fischer-Tropsch synthesis

    FEEDS and Detailed Engineering Design.

    BioSyns third-party EPCM company, which

    acts as its in-house engineer and project

    engineer, will perform the front end

    engineering and design studies (FEEDS) and

    detailed engineering studies for the 300-

    bpd demonstration plant.

    Techno-Economic Study on a 10,000-bpd

    GTL Conversion Facility

    BioSyn will commission a third-party

    process engineering party, which currently

    acts as its in-house engineer, to conduct a

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    techno-economic study on its technology

    architecture for a 10,000-bpd GTL plant and

    associated zero-carbon emission power

    plant.

    The 10,000-bpd facility will use the same 4th

    generation Fischer-Tropsch process

    technology as the 300-bpd demonstration

    plant. However, it will employ a different

    technology in the production of synthesis

    gas such that excess hydrogen will be

    produced to be used in the associated zero-

    carbon emission power plant.

    At the rated capacity of 10,000 bpd, thefacility will produce hydrogen in volumes

    that will warrant the construction of a

    power plant that will be fueled by pure

    hydrogen. The use of pure hydrogen as fuel

    will render the power plant zero-carbon

    emission plant.

    Exothermic Heat Recovery.The F-T reactors

    exothermic heat will be recovered and

    looped back to the methane reformer

    which needs heat for the methane

    reforming to take place. No heat will be

    dissipated into the atmosphere, a

    significant departure from 3rd

    generation

    designs.

    Product Specifications

    Both the demo and 10,000-bpd plants will

    produce synthetic crude oil with the

    following specifications:

    Composition

    (%)

    n-

    Paraffins

    Iso-

    ParaffinsOlefins Total

    C5 C10

    C11 C18

    C19 C30

    35

    18

    2

    14

    11

    1

    17

    2

    0

    66

    31

    3

    Total 55 26 19 100

    Oxygenates

    Aromatics

    Sulfur & HA*

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    drop-in transportation that can compete

    head on with petroleum based fuels.

    About BioSyn Resources, LLC

    BioSyn is a development company engaged in designing and developing technology architectures for biomass-centric feedstock-flexible refineries that will produce ultraclean RFS2-compliant green transportation fuels. Its

    business philosophy and business model call for the use of best in class and commercially established unit

    conversion processes supplied by leading process licensors known in the petroleum and petrochemical industries.

    Prior to the completion of the construction of its refineries, BioSyn manufactures and markets the analogue

    versions of the ultraclean transportation fuels to be produced by its future refineries.

    The transportation fuels are infrastructure ready, also referred to as drop-in fuels. This means that these fuels

    can be mixed in any proportion with conventional petroleum based fuels without need for engine modification.

    BioSyn has a diesel demo car, pictured below, that runs on its ultraclean multi-functional military fuel the kind of

    fuel that doubles as jet fuel (JP-8, Jet A-1) and diesel fuel.

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