Transcript LanzaTech Presentation

gas to jet platform
Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit
Defense Energy Technology Challenge
Hawaii Convention Center
Honolulu, Hawaii
September 13, 2011
© 2011 LanzaTech Inc. All rights reserved.
Dr. Jennifer Holmgren
CEO, LanzaTech Inc.
Company Profile
 Founded in January 2005
 Funding
– New Zealand Government – $US 10M
– Series A: Khosla Ventures - $US 12M in 2007
– Series B: Qiming Ventures - $US 18M in 2010
 Team
CSO/Founder: Dr. Sean Simpson
– 80 staff
– Synthetic Biology
– Analytical
– Engineering
– Auckland (New Zealand),
Chicago (USA) and
Shanghai (China)
 IP Portfolio
– >60 patents filed
– 2 proprietary microbe families
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The LanzaTech Process
Novel gas fermentation
technology captures CO-rich
gases and converts the carbon
to fuels and chemicals
Gas feed stream
Gas reception
Compression
Fermentation
Recovery
Product
tank
• Gases are sole source of energy and carbon
• Production of fuels and chemicals
• Potential to make material impact on the future energy pool
(>10s of billions of gallons per year)
• Completely outside of the food value chain
• Biofuel, carbon capture and energy efficiency technology solution
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Potential for Significant Impact
Ethanol Potential
From LanzaTech Process
1.4 billion
tons steel/yr Globally
30 billion gal/yr
Steel
Industry
Biomass
1.3 billion
tons/yr potential in US
190 billion gal/yr
• Access to opportunity and on purpose derived gas streams
• Potential to make significant impact on the fuel pool
• No impact on food production
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A Fast Path to Commercialization
Pilot
Commercial
Demonstration
4Q2011
2008
– 15,000 gallons ethanol per year
– BlueScope steel mill, NZ
– Operating since 2008
– 100,000 gallons ethanol
per year
– Baosteel
– March 27: Ground breaking
1Q2013
– > 50 million gallons
per year
– Baosteel
Commercial Production by 2013
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Energy Efficient Carbon Capture
30% of Carbon in
BOF gas is
Captured as
Ethanol
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Efficiency (%, HHV)
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
Conventional, No
Capture*
Conventional, CO2
Capture*
IGCC-O2, No
Capture*
IGCC, CO2 Capture*
BOF Gas to
Electricity, no
Capture
BOF Gas to Ethanol
*Reference: DOE/NETL-2007/1281 “Cost and Performance Baseline for Fossil Energy Plants”
 LanzaTech process produces valuable products with a higher
energy efficiency than a power plant
 LanzaTech captures 30% of the carbon from BOF (Basic Oxygen
Furnace) gas as valuable hydrocarbons
Redefining Carbon Capture
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LanzaTech Gas to Liquid Platform
Resources
CO
Industrial
H2
CO
Syngas: Biomass, Coal, Methane
H2
COG, Chemical
Native
Customized
Catalysts
Product Suite
C2
• Ethanol
• Acetic acid
CO2
Power
Engineering
Control
Chemistry
Synthetic
C3
• i-propanol
• acetone
CO2
C4
• BDO
• n-Butanol
• i-Butanol
• Succinic acid
C5
• Isoprene
Other
• PHB
• …….
Thermochemical Approaches
Product Suite
Hydrocarbon Fuels
(diesel, jet,
gasoline)
Chemical
Intermediates
Chemicals
Olefins
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Integrated Hydrocarbon
Fuels Process
* Gas Feed Stream
Gas Reception
Fermentation Recovery
Alcohol
Mixture
Chemical Synthesis
Rectification
Diesel
Jet
15%
50%
Gasoline
35%
Gas Feed Stream
• CO from Industrial Waste Gases
• Syngas from Biomass, MSW, Reformed Natural Gas or Other Sources
Novel Route to Drop in Hydrocarbon Fuels
Key Enabler: Price and Availability of Alcohol
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LT–SB SPK Sample Properties
Property
Total Aromatics, volume %
Freeze point, °C
Flash point, °C
Density at 15°C, kg/L
Heat of combustion, MJ/kg
Hydrocarbon Type Analysis
Aromatics, volume %
Aromatics, mass %
Cycloparaffins, mass %
Paraffins
API Gravity at 60oF
Olefins, % volume
ASTM
Test Method
ASTM
D7566
LT-SB
Sample
D1319
D5972
D93
D4052
D4809
< 25
< -40
> 38
0.751 - 0.770
> 42.8
0.6
< -77
54
0.762
43.5
D6379
D2425
D2425
D2425
D1298
D1319
< 0.5
< 0.5
< 15
report
52 - 57
report
< 0.2
< 0.3
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54.2
1.0
Key Properties Confirmed
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• RSB Criterion 3c - Lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of a biofuel blend,
calculated by using the RSB lifecycle methodology, shall be on average
50% lower than the applicable fossil fuel baseline.
• LanzaTech Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF ) Gas Process ~ 60% reduction
– Based on LCA analyses performed by Michigan Technological University
and Tsinghua University relative to petroleum gasoline
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145
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gCO2, e/MJ
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Life Cycle GHG
Emission
LanzaTech Case 1:
Steam Generated for Ethanol Recovery
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LanzaTech Case 2:
Waste Heat from Steel Mill used for
Ethanol Recovery
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Conventional Sweet
Gasoline Sorghum
Corn
Cassava LanzaTech LanzaTech
(Case 1)
(Case 2)
• LanzaTech Waste Biomass Syngas Process - In progress
– Based on a custom pathway in the GREET model, initial results have
shown >80% GHG reduction relative to petroleum gasoline
GHG footprint is <50% of the footprint of producing petroleum fuels10
Fuel Readiness Level: Swedish
Biofuels Alcohols and Process
FRL
Description
Toll Gate
SB
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Production Capacity
Established
Full Scale Plant Operational
TBD
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Commercialization
Validated
Business model validated and
GHG assessment accepted
In
Progress
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Fuel Approval
Fuel Class/Type listed
in manuals
In
Progress
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Full-Scale Technical
Evaluation
Fuel properties, Rig
and engine testing
In
Progres
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Process Validation
Scaling from Laboratory
to Pilot Plant
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Preliminary Technical
Evaluation
Specification Properties
Evaluated
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Proof of Concept
Basic Fuel Properties validated
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Technology Concept
Formulated
Complete feedstock
process identified
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Basic Principles
Observed and Reported
Process feedstock
principles identified
FRL
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A Hybrid Catalytic Route to
Fuels from Biomass Syngas
Project Objective: develop a cost-effective hybrid conversion technology for
catalytic upgrading of biomass-derived syngas to jet fuel and chemicals to meet
the price, quality and environmental requirements of the aviation industry
Wood
Stover
Switchgrass
EtOH
Gasification
& Syngas
Conditioning
Fermentation
& Alcohol
Recovery
2,3BD
Catalysis
Catalysis
Integration
Gasoline
Jet Fuel
Diesel
Butadiene
MEK
System Integration, Optimization and Analysis
Improve Economics and Process Sustainability
Rapid Deployment
Minimal competition for industrial waste gases only alternatives are cogen or heating
Steel
Multiple plants per partner
Refining
Chemicals
Coal
Biomass
Potential >350 M gal/yr from existing agreements/MoUs
Global Recognition
2011
• Dr. Sean Simpson was named NZ
Entrepreneur Of The Year in the Technology
and Emerging Business Category
• 2011 Frost & Sullivan Global Green
Excellence Award for Technology Innovation
in Green Chemistry
• Ranked 27 in Hot 30 Renewable
Chemicals Companies
• Finalist ICIS
Innovations Award,
Best Innovation
by a SME
• TiE50 for energy and cleantech
• The top 50 represent the
best in entrepreneurship –
“risk-taking yet pragmatic,
Double Win for LanzaTech
visionary but market aware”…
• 2011 NZBIO Company of the Year
• Cofounder and chief scientist
The global Red Herring Top 100, which
Dr. Sean Simpson won the NZBIO
recognises LanzaTech as one of the 100
2011 Young Biotechnologist of
most innovative new technology companies.
the Year Award
Triple Win for LanzaTech
• Ranked 38 in Top 100 people
in Bioenergy
• Ranked 31 in Top 50 Companies
in Bioenergy
• Technology of the Year Award
Ranked among the top 100 private companies in Asia.
Ranked among the top 100 private companies globally.
The Global Cleantech 100
highlights the most promising
private clean technology
companies around the world.
2010
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A Sensible Path…
Waste for Energy
Aligns:
Industrial
Growth
Energy
Security
Energy
Efficiency
Land
To Produce
Food
For People
Allows:
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Summary
• To meet growing energy demand & stabilize atmospheric
CO2 levels - need to diversify fuel pool and introduce
>30% drop in zero carbon fuels
• The LanzaTech process can capture non-food, waste carbon
to produce low cost alcohols
• Alcohols produced via the LanzaTech process are an
excellent substrate for conversion to drop-in hydrocarbon
fuels
• Commercial alcohol production rates on raw industrial waste
gases has been demonstrated at scale
• Compelling volumes of waste gases world wide have potential
to make significant impact on the fuel pool
• Collaborating with leading conversion partners,
industry agencies, and certification bodies to develop
sustainable, low cost, integrated hydrocarbon fuels
processes from non-food sources
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