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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
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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
6
.
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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