DynaMotive Energy Systems Corporation

Location: Headquarters in Vancouver Canada
Contact: Nathan Neumer, 604-267-6042 or email
Project Stage: Active

Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation is a renewable energy developer and manufacturer creating economically competitive and environmentally sound products worldwide. They are a publicly traded company, gaining their revenue from sale of biofuel products, license fees, and technical services and from direct investments in biofuel projects. Since 1991 the company has been working to secure viable forms of energy that will be competitive with mainstream petroleum products to eventually displace them.

Utilizing the Dynamotive’s pattented “fast pyrolysis” process, which processes organic matter with extreme heat quickly in the absence of oxygen, Dynomotive is able to produce Carbon neutral BioOil and Agrichar. With cellulosic forest and agricultural residues as inputs fast pyrolysis yields products efficiently by utilizing all of the biomass for the product, providing also 75% of the energy to power the process. Dynamotive has currently constructed 2 plants- 1 plant processes 100 tons of biomass per day, while the other processes 200 tons per day.

This process produces several outputs: BioOil, Char and Non-Condensable Gas. An input of 100 tons of biomass would yield 65-70% BioOil, 15-20% Char and 5-10% non-condensable gas, which continues to flow through the system to heat it.

BioOil is produced as a substitute for industrial use fossil fuel having the same benefits of pumping smooth, igniting and burning upon atomization. BioOil can be applied commercially as a clean burning fuel. As a replacement to natural gas, diesel and other liquid fossil fuels BioOil is used in primary industry in kilns and boilers in pulp and paper, process heat in boilers in sawmills, metallurgy, oil and gas industries, along with in secondary industries such as greenhouses, district heating and stationary engines.

BioChar can be used as a low-sulfur substitute for industrial fuels as well. As a 20% additive to BioOil a third product is created called BioOil Plus. This product has higher viscosity, higher heating value and higher specific gravity than BioOil. Other applications to BioChar include briquette manufacturing, energy for cement plant’s limekilns, as a coal substitution for coal in thermal power generation, fertilizers and many others that are currently being developed.

Each of these products meet Canada’s Environmental Choice Program’s stringent plant by plant requirements and are thus authorized to carry the EcoLogo, a nationally recognized label.

Dynamotive sees BioOil as a key intermediary in the conversion of biomass to hydrogen or syngas because the reduction of volume tied to the conversion of biomass to BioOil, BioOil Plus, and Char leads to enormous reduction in transportation and storage costs. Dynamotive sources it’s biomass as locally as possible, strategically placing one of their tow Canadian operations at a local saw mill. BioOil and Agrichar production is economically feasible because of the simplicity of the process, because the waste biomass is not dependant on food crops, and in strategically distributing smaller plants it is less expensive in construction and operating costs.

As oil prices rise and the effort to decrease emissions worldwide is pressing for many reasons, renewable energy sources that are compatible with the current industrial infrastructure are in high demand. BioOil and BioOil Plus contain approximately half the BTU value as diesel oil #2 and #6. Agrichar has nearly 80% BTU compared to similar products when burned, but can also act as a nutrient rich soil enhancer. Off-gassing CO, and NOx in BioOil products are lower than those of diesel fuel, and are comparable to those of natural gas. BioOil products are relatively sulphur-free leading SO2 levels to be nearly zero. Along with emission and transportation effects diminished the BioOil process also utilizes forestland biomass bringing an incentive for forest management with value added forest products. With forests managed and ground-level fuels reduced the potential for catastrophic wild-fire is greatly decreased. As carbon from this and agricultural biomass is utilized, there is less carbon decomposing on the ground and slowly releasing into the atmosphere.

According to Dynamotive Energy Systems, this is only the beginning of exploring the Pyrolysis system’s fuel potential thus representing an even larger prospective market for value-added products from BioOil. Many jobs have been created in Canada, USA and Argentina with many more to come as Dynamotive plans to expand to Brazil, the Far East, and to other key markets World wide. Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation brings with it the capacity to research and develop new renewable fuels, to expand their operation creating green jobs, and to chip away at the prehistoric fuel system in a viable way.

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The project see Dynamotive Energy Systems website