1. By: Joseph J. James, President
Overview of ATP-MD’s Demonstration of a Patent-Pending Combined Remediation Biomass & Bio-Product Production (CRBBP) Process
By: Joseph J. James, President
ATP-MD, LLC (ATP-MD)
Phone: (803)
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2. Problems & Opportunities!!!
Nutrient Pollution in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed:
Due to extensive use of chicken litter fertilizer, excessive amounts of phosphorus (P) are in Maryland’s farm soils and flow into and are damaging the Chesapeake Bay’s ecosystem.
Industry:
Industry is looking for non-fossil materials that are better, easier to convert, use, or process into superior bio-products.
EPA’s RE-Powering America’s Lands Initiative:
EPA encourages renewable energy activities on the nation’s approximately 490,000 contaminated sites, which total almost 15 million acres. See
Lower Biomass Costs Will Increase Utilization:
Using biomass allotments, multiple times, will reduce costs and facilitate the greater use of bio-products, bio-coal, etc.
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3. ATP-MD’s Triple-Bottom-Line Approach
ATP-MD, LLC (ATP-MD), the Maryland operating affiliate of Agri-Tech Producers, LLC (ATP), will use cost-effective, combined processes to sustainably grow, use and convert bio-crops, and will:
Enhance Maryland’s environment and quality of life,
Locate its operations in lower-income communities, where possible, to create jobs and to improve local economic conditions, while
Make reasonable profits for itself and its investors.
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ATP-MD’s Combined Remediation, Biomass & Bio-Products Production (CRBBP) Process
Under ATP’s patent-pending multi-step process an allotment of bio-crops and their biomass is used multiple times, as described below , reducing overall costs:
Polluted areas are cost-effectively cleaned up, by growing special bio-crops in them, whose roots’ phytoremediation properties remove problematic substances; then
Once harvested, the bio-crops are shredded and used, as is, as poultry house bedding, with the resulting litter later converted into a rich, biochar soil amendment; or the biomass is converted into a variety of other bio-products, including: fillers to make lighter, stronger and heat and water-resistant plastics, or clean and renewable bio-coal, or bio-fuels.
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5. ATP-MD’s Demonstration Project
ATP-MD, is partnering with the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) and others, to demonstrate ATP’s new, cost-effective and patent-pending CRBBP Process, to reduce excess levels of phosphorus in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay watershed farm soils, and convert the resulting, lower-cost biomass into a variety of bio-products and bio-fuels. If all goes well, ATP-MD will develop commercial-scale CRBBP Process operations throughout Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay watershed.
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6. ATP’s CRBBP Process Both Remediates & Lowers Costs!!!
ATP’s Affiliates will use its Patent-Pending,
Combined Process, which Simultaneously:
Cleans up P-Contaminated Farmland
Reduces Biomass Feedstock Costs
Produces Renewable Bio-Products
Creates a Cleaner & Safer Environment
Saves an Enormous Amount of Money
Creates Jobs and Generates Profits
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7. “Biomass Sorghum’s” Super Phytoremediation Powers
Standard Sorghum
“Biomass Sorghum”, by Chromatin
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8. A Maryland Eastern Shore Field of ATP-MD’s “Biomass Sorghum”
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9. ATP’s CRBBP Process Lowers Remediation & Bio-Product Costs!!!
P Phytoremediation: A low-cost, way
that plant and tree roots remove toxins from soils, water, etc.
Torrefaction: A pyrolytic process that converts biomass into enhanced bio-products, like clean/renewable bio-coal.
Combined Process = Much Lower Costs
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10. ATP’s Pyrolysis Process
ATP’s Pyrolysis involves Heating animal, plant or wood material (Biomass), in a low-oxygen environment (), which evaporates the material’s water, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s), and some Hemicellulose (HC).
In ATP’s patented process, the VOC/HC gases are Captured and Combusted to cost-effectively and with minimal environmental impact, generate “Variable” Process Heat.
Pyrolyzed Biomass can be used to make a variety of Bio-Products: e.g. Biochars, for more productive soils; Fillers used to make better-performing Plastics; and Bio-Coal, which can be co-fired with coal in power plants, to reduce GHG emissions and pollution.
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11. Schematic of ATP’s Pyrolysis/Torrefaction Machine
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12. Market Opportunities & Size
ATP-MD’s products will compete in:
The $380 billion US plastics market
The $8 billion US garden consumables market
The world’s 6.2 billion TPY coal market.
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13. Agri-Tech Producers, LLC
ATP-MD’s Product Line
ATP-MD will produce the following bio-products:
Poultry House Bedding: A locally-produced, lower cost, but more absorbent bedding. Value: $60-$80/ton.
Enhanced Plastics Fillers: Make stronger, lighter and heat/water-resistant plastics. Value: $300-$600/ton.
Biochar Soil Amendments: Increase the productivity and water-efficiency of poor soils. Value: $250-$500/ton.
Clean & Renewable Bio-Coal: Reduce chemical and carbon pollution in existing, coal-fired plants with no de-rating or equipment upgrades. Value: $175-$250/ton.
CRBBP Process: Cost-effectively remediates sites, while making the aforementioned products. Value: Priceless.
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14. ATP-MD’s Team & Key Partners
Management: CEO, Phytoremediation & Torrefaction Technicians
Equipment Manufacturing Partner: The 40-year old Kusters-Zima Corporation
Utility & Governmental & University Partners & Advisors: EPRI, DOE, INL, USDA, NC State, Penn State, UMES, Etc.
Customer Partners: Farmers, Manufacturers, Electric and Wastewater Utilities, Bio-Crop Developers, Etc. .
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15. By: Joseph J. James, President
Overview of ATP-MD’s Demonstration of a Patent-Pending Combined Remediation Biomass & Bio-Product Production (CRBBP) Process
By: Joseph J. James, President
ATP-MD, LLC (ATP-MD)
Phone: (803)
Agri-Tech Producers, LLC