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Charateristics of Biomass
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Heat Content -- 7,283 BTUs/lb (HHV) |
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Composition (% of mass) |
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Moisture |
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7.90 |
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Ash |
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9.05 |
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Volatile |
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63.40 |
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Fix Carbon |
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19.70 |
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Sulfur |
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0.18 |
Mineral Analysis of Ash (%)
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Phosphorous Pent Oxide |
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24.80 |
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Silicon Dioxide |
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18.00 |
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Ferric Oxide |
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1.85 |
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Aluminum Oxide |
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2.56 |
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Titanium Dioxide |
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0.16 |
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Manganese Dioxide |
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6.93 |
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Calcium Dioxide |
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21.20 |
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Magnesium Oxide |
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2.92 |
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Potassium Oxide |
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20.80 |
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Sodium Oxide |
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0.48 |
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Sulfur Trioxide |
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2.56 |
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Barium Oxide |
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0.16 |
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Strontium |
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0.08 |
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Undetermined |
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0.80 |
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Kevin Dretzka – President/Director
- 20+ years of investment banking and private equity finance experience
- Former Managing Director of EastdilSecured (the nation's leading real estate investment banking company; sold to Wells Fargo in 1999)
- Director and largest shareholder of Drake Energy Ltd. (Calgary-based public oil & gas exploration firm)
- Co-founder and project manager of Altra, Biofuels
- Former Director and major shareholder of ARC, one of the largest COBRA administration firms in the midwest (sold to United Healthcare in 2007)
- Vice Chairman, Santa Monica/UCLA Medical Center
Russ Zeeck – COO/Director
- A 15+ year veteran of biofuels operations with Altra Biofuels, Baard Energy, Delta-T, and AGP
- Headed development of 4 ethanol production plants totaling over 300 MGPY of capacity
- Led re-engineering of 5 ethanol plants with over 150 MGPY of capacity
- Helped raise $450 million in debt and equity financing as co-founder and COO of Altra Biofuels
- Designed and tested the original technology used for the processing and manufacturing of dried distillers grain pellets (a bi-product of corn ethanol production)
- Implemented technology to hydrogenate soy oil using hydrogen extracted from natural gas.
JonAlan Page - Chief Commercial Officer
- 15+ year veteran in finance, corporate development, business development, operations, and strategy in the energy sector with BioFuel Energy Corp, Baard Energy, Nordic Biofuels, and Enron
- Lead the efforts to restructure BioFuel Energy Corp's risk management activities.
- Lead the development of 110 MMGY ethanol facility that is currently operating, including the negotiation of all major contracts.
- Served as Vice President of Project Finance and Planning of Baard Energy, a company that develops ethanol plants.
- Served on the Board of Nordic Biofuels
- Held a variety of positions at Enron including Director of Risk Analytics and Investment Valuation.
Bibb Swain - Director/Consultant
- 25+ year leader in the biofuels and bio-refining industries
- Founded Delta-T Corp. in 1984, one of the country's leading biofuels technology, engineering, and contracting firms
- Participated in the design and construction of over 60 major projects on 4 continents with a production capacity of over 2 billion gallons of fuel-grade, industrial and beverage-grade ethanol
- Patented and commercialized the molecular sieve for ethanol dehydration, a technology used today by all major ethanol design firms.
- Pioneered technologies that permit ethanol plants to operate with zero process wastewater, use less makeup water, and utilize less energy per gallon of production.
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Commodity Ticker
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Price† |
Change |
High |
Low |
| Light Crude |
73.91 |
0.00 |
87.00 |
65.95 |
| Gasoline |
1.92 |
+0.0325 |
2.41 |
1.63 |
| Ethanol |
1.74 |
+0.02 |
1.74 |
1.71 |
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