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ONE BIOFAME is a professional consulting agency created to pursue opportunities in the application of innovative gasification solutions. ONE BIOFAME in its short history, has assembled the professional team, resources, financial partners, technologies and various engineering support and complimentary services to carry out the business plans.

For over 30 years, the primary island of our projects, namely the gasification process, has gone through various improvements through modifications and efficiency enhancement, and thus proven in commercial use, for the production of large volumes of synthesis gases that are further used to generate electricity, liquid fuels and other bio-chemical products worldwide.

Market conditions today are very much in favor for gasification projects and continue to remain strong and are increasingly creating opportunities in the alternative energy market. These conditions include:

• Gasification is a now proven and established process
• Changes in commodity pricing environment
• Geopolitical climate instability
• Environmental, “green” characteristics of gasification
• Escalating finding and development costs, thus reducing capital expenditures
• Increased operation and maintenance costs of conventional energy companies such as incineration

How to Create Value

ONE BIOFAME’s value creation model involves key processes which must be integrated to ensure success. A summary of the critical success factors in each of the value chain activities appears in the table below.

Gasification converts feedstock into syn-gas

Gasification is mainly a process that converts carbon-containing materials into a synthesis gas, ‘syn-gas’, composed primarily of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Gasification occurs when a carbon-containing feedstock is exposed to steam at elevated temperatures and/or pressures in the presence of controlled amounts of air or oxygen.

Syn-gas can be used as a fuel to generate electricity or steam, used as a basic chemical building block in the petrochemical and refining industries. According to a 2004 World Gasification Survey over 100 gasification plants are operating in 24 countries with 15% of the plants located in North America.

The predominant feedstock is coal (49%), followed by petroleum (37%) and other carbon-based materials such as natural gas, petroleum coke, biomass or municipal solid waste. The primary product is syn-gas from which other marketable products are generated, including chemicals (37%), liquid fuel (36%), power (19%) and gaseous fuels (8%).

Environmental benefits of gasification

Gasification presents significant environmental benefits over conventional technologies due to its conversion efficiency and the concentrated syn-gas stream that is produced. The conversion rate of organic constituents into syn–gas exceeds 99%.

In addition, due to the high combustion temperature of the gasification reactor and the high temperature of the exit gas, there is virtually no reforming of combustion by-products to form organic compounds of environmental concern such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, dioxin/furans or phenols.

Metals and non-combustible inorganics are melted and captured in the (molten-ash or slag) which when rapidly cooled forms an inert glass-like amorphous solid which is free of any crystalline structure, this process is referred to as vitrification.

In addition, volatile particulate matter removed during syngas cleanup stages can either be recycled back to the Gasification chamber or injected into its slag output where it is also vitrified and rendered inert.

The vitrified material is suitable for aggregate use or can be safely land filled without any pre-treatment. As the concentrated syn-gas exits the gasifier a variety of proven technologies are available to remove impurities or sequester compounds of interest. Emissions from facilities converting Municipal Solid Waste to energy will exceed the standards established by the most stringent regulatory frame work in North America.

Gasification will be particularly beneficial when generating power from coal or petroleum coke when compared to traditional power generating facilities. Emissions of nitrous oxides (N0x) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) will be an order of magnitude lower, carbon dioxide, a known greenhouse gas, can be sequestered or used for enhanced oil recovery projects.

Low value feedstocks fuel the gasification process

• Gasification is the future of flexible power generation. Gasification provides an environmentally friendly process that provides an efficient and stable energy supply for consumers.
• ONE BIOFAME clients gasification plants will not be restricted to a single fuel type; each facility can be built to handle one feedstock, with a wide range of alternatives such as coal, biomass, petroleum coke, waste tires, industrial waste and municipal waste.
• Many of the feedstock that will be converted to energy or beneficial commodities are considered waste byproducts with little or negative value and are considered harmful to our environment.

ONE BIOFAME’s Solution

• High temperature of gasifier converts all hazardous and non- hazardous material to a syngas or an inert slag
• Inert vitrified ash requires no treatment prior to disposal and hence lower operating costs
• Syngas is easily cleaned of impurities yielding emissions below stringent local standards
• Carbon dioxide can be sequestered thus reducing environmental impact.
• Heterogeneous feedstock is acceptable
• Gasification facilities can yield up to 50% conversion of heat content to energy.
• Compliments existing recycling programs.
• Operation produces no long term environmental legacy.

Gasification offers flexibility and scalability

The geographic location, feedstock composition and end user needs will determine the optimum product output or combination of products. Gasification is extremely flexible allowing for single or multiple products to be delivered either concurrently or as demands dictate.

Who Do We Benefit

ONE BIOFAME expertise in solutions has many advantages, benefiting among others:

Investors

ONE BIOFAME State-of-the-Art solution benefits investors in the following manner:

• Resource Extraction via Advanced Landfill Mining (REALM) Utilizing BioOrganic Treatment for Production of High-Quality Compost Materials and Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) Briquettes for Thermal Application Purposes.
• Unique and simple approach for Advanced Landfill Mining activities thus provide the opportunity to repossess valuable assets for future development.
• A gasification system that will be capable of utilizing a mix of different types of biomass or feedstock, thus provide value-added revenue security.
• A High Availability System, thus making it a viable project to invest in, as it will not be constraint to a specific type of feedstock to be operational.
• A system that will meet the Highest International Environmental Standards and will meet or surpass the local and national environmental regulatory requirements governing the site of the plant, thus making it easier to obtain permitting requirements and public acceptance, resulting in less project development costs,
• A highly efficient system that will allow maximum recovery in the form of Renewable Fuel and Energy, thus giving the project higher returns in revenue from renewable fuel and/or power sales.
• A system which is Financially Viable and Bankable, with multiple revenue streams and less overall operating and maintenance costs, when compared to conventional systems. This will result in a very Attractive Rate of Return on Investment and shorter project payback period.

Local Authorities & Communities

ONE BIOFAME State-of-the-Art solution benefits local authorities in the following manner:

• A system that will be capable of utilizing a mix of different types of feedstock for electric power projects, and utilize indigenous agro-crops for alternative fuel projects, therefore, creating income sustainability for the majority agricultural communities in the project area, therefore reduces dependence on fuel imports.
• A Fuel Flexible System, thus making it able to dispose of all types of waste which would be generated in municipalities and industries.
• A system that will produce no residues that require further disposal – A Total & Complete Integrated Waste Solution, as our Waste-to-Wealth System does not involve combustion, there is no ash generation for secondary landfill.
• A system that will meet the Highest International Environmental Standards and will meet or surpass the local and national environmental regulatory requirements governing the site of the plant, thus making it easier for authorities to obtain public acceptance for the project in their area.
• A highly efficient system that will allow maximum energy recovery in the form of Renewable Fuel and Energy, thus making the area partially independent of constraints from importing fossil fuel and its associated cost fluctuations.
• A system designed in a modular manner, able to perform in areas beyond power utilities existence and rural.
• A system that is compact and can be implemented to a very small scale (from 10 tons per day onwards).
• A system which is Financially Viable, of which the municipality, cooperatives, etc., could opt to participate in as an equity partner.

Industries

ONE BIOFAME State-of-the-Art solution benefits Industrial Companies in the following manner:

• A Fuel Flexible System, thus making it able to dispose of all types of waste which would be generated in an industrial and medical processes, or obtained from exterior sources.
• A system that will produce no residues that require further disposal – A Total & Complete Waste Destruction Solution, as Gasification systems does not involve combustion, there is no ash (fly and bottom) generation.
• A system that will meet the Highest International Environmental Standards and will meet or surpass the local and national environmental regulatory requirements governing the site of the plant, thus making it easier to obtain permitting requirements and resulting in quicker commissioning of the Gasification plant.
• A highly efficient system that will allow maximum energy recovery in the form of Renewable Fuel, which can then be combusted in Gas Turbines/Engines to generate electricity, combusted in boilers to generate Steam, combusted in kilns for cement making purposes, etc. This will make the company partially independent of constraints from importing fossil fuel and its associated cost fluctuations.
• A system which is Financially Viable, of which the company could opt to participate in as an equity partner.