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LanzaTech
Creating Something from Nothing
Adding value to Waste Gases
Dr. Jennifer Holmgren
CEO, LanzaTech Inc.
Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference
Capital Hilton
April 19th -21st 2011
Washington DC
© 2011 LanzaTech Inc. All rights reserved.
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
• Gases are sole source of energy
• 60 patents, including two proprietary microbe patents
• Direct production of fuels and chemicals
• Indirect production of drop-in hydrocarbon fuels
Product
tank
Potential for Significant Impact
Ethanol Potential
From LanzaTech Process
70 million tons/yr
Globally
4.5 billion gal/yr
Petcoke
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
Significant Impact on Fuel Pool
No Impact on Food Production
Challenge:
Energy Efficient Carbon Capture
30% of Carbon in
BOF gas is
Captured as
Ethanol
0.7
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 gas as
valuable hydrocarbons
Redefining Carbon Capture
Gas to Liquid Platform
Resources
CO
Industrial
CO
H2
Syngas: Biomass, Coal, Methane
Native
Customized
Catalysts
Product Suite
C2
• Ethanol
• Acetic acid
CO2
COG, Chemical
Power
Engineering
Control
Chemistry
Synthetic
C3
• i-propanol
CO2
H2
C4
• BDO
• n-Butanol
• i-Butanol
• Succinic acid
C5
• Isoprene
Other
• PHB
• …….
Producing Other Fuels and Chemicals
 Direct production of chemicals
– 2,3-Butanediol
– Isoprene
– MEK
– Propanol
– Butanol
 Multi step production of chemicals and chemical
intermediates
– Olefins (ethylene, propylene, butylene)
– MEK
 Path to “Drop in” hydrocarbon fuels
– Gasoline
– Diesel
– Jet Fuel
Unique Synthetic Biology Capability In Place
Strain Name: LZ-1561
Parent: Clostridium autoethanogenum
Proprietary
microbe
Butanol
Genetic
tool kit
Acetone
+
Propanol
Isoprene
Robust Genetic
modification capability
operational
• Multiple proprietary genomes
secured
• Detailed gene control database
constructed
• Plug-and play gene expression /
gene regulation system developed
MEK
LanzaTech bacteria have been successfully modified to allow Butanol,
Acetone and Propanol to each be separately produced from gases.
Jet Fuel Collaborations
A Proven Path to Commercialization
Pilot
2008
– 15,000 gallons ethanol per year
– BlueScope steel mill, NZ
Demonstration
4Q2011
– 100,000 gallons ethanol
per year
– Baosteel
– March 27: Ground breaking
Commercial
1Q2013
– > 50 million gallons
per year
– Baosteel
Commercial relationships across multiple industry sectors
allow fast-track process commercialization
LanzaTech: A Global Company
Commercial Partners by Market Segment
Refining
Steel
Chemicals
Coal
Biomass
Not just about steel…
Global Recognition
2011
Double Win for LanzaTech
• 2011 NZBIO Company of the Year
• Cofounder and chief scientist Dr. Sean
Simpson won the NZBIO 2011 Young
Biotechnologist of the Year Award
The Global Cleantech 100 highlights the most
promising private clean technology companies
around the world.
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
The global Red
Herring Top 100, which
recognises LanzaTech
as one of the 100
most innovative new
technology companies.
2010
Ranked among the top 100 private companies in Asia.
Ranked among the top 100 private companies globally.
2009
AlwaysOn GoingGreen 100
Top Private Companies
Listed in the Biotech &
Agriculture category.
Green technology
Innovator of the Year,
Frost and Sullivan
Asia Pacific Industrial
Technologies Awards
(Singapore)
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
• Strong business development pipeline will accelerate
commercialization process
• Collaborating with leading conversion partners, industry
agencies, and certification bodies to develop sustainable, low
cost, integrated hydrocarbon fuels processes from non-food
sources