Sequestering Carbon Explained

Our patent pending process is a hybrid system that incorporates low elevated pressure, partial pyrolysis (chemical decomposition of organic materials using heat in the absence of oxygen), and gasification. The process involves the loading of feedstock into a hopper that is then dried, briquetted and then placed into a ceramic continues flow low pressure vessel for processing. Once the feedstock briquettes are loaded, the system is then continuously filled. When heat and pressure is optimized, the controlled air supply and heaters are turned off.

The feedstock will begin to break down from the low elevated pressure and heat by releasing Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) within the processor. At a controlled limit, the material within the process will combust and carbonization will begin. When the PLC controlled sensors identify ignition, both the exhaust valve and the air inlet valve are opened and closed, allowing an exothermic reaction, (a chemical reaction that releases energy in the form of heat), to continue within the processor. A layer of high heat is then formed at the bottom of the system, which is transported and is controlled by pressurized air from the inlet allowing the heat to rise slowly throughout the feedstock. As the heat and product is rises, it thermally converts the feedstock so as to reach its thermal chemical equilibrium level of carbon. This continuous flow of feedstock, allows for a speed, heat, moisture and timing variability. Once the feedstock is “dialed in” the process can be sped up, and the quality adjusted as per customer requirements.

The Benefits of Sequestering Carbon

• Patented architecture and processes create new manufacturing jobs
• Reducing waste streams
• Generating high-quality carbon/charcoal by-products
• Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
• Low initial capital and on-going operational costs
• Mobile and modular systems for ease of production expansion
• Deploying the technology into vast geographical areas creating local economic development gains for urban and rural areas
• Creation of carbon credits as an added revenue stream

CCSG’s unique process of Sequestering Carbon/Bio-char is different from all other technologies. The process raises feedstock up to the thermal chemical equilibrium point, converting the calorific value of the feedstock to a high purity level of carbon. The R&D table top model has proven that carbon can be developed in a constant process. Unlike the 30’s Gasification, 70’s Pyrolysis or the newly experimented Batch Processing, CCSG has proven that carbon can be produced through a system that can be adjusted on the run, with modifications to suit the feedstock and customer requirements and therefore has been granted a Provisional Patent.

The market for carbon is growing rapidly and expanding due to its great need to be utilized for pollution reduction, soil augmentation, water purification, and carbons use in multiple products.

Phase II of the CCSG system is a ½ scaled version of a fully operation production process. We have started on this great adventure of supplying farming communities with the greatest soil augmentation since the introduction of fertilizer. The Base carbon produced will be used for soil augmentation, and activated carbon can supply companies and communities with water and air purification. Grants and investments are being solicited in order for individuals and companies to join with CCSG in this world changing activity to help save our planet one village at a time.

Carbon by any other name:  Carbon / Biochar:

Carbon/Biochar is a fine-grained charcoal high in organic carbon and largely resistant to decomposition that is produced from the pyrolysis of plant and waste feedstocks.

Using BioChar as a soil amendment has a long history, and recent agricultural experiments that focus on poor soils in Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia, South America and Asia demonstrate Biochar’s beneficial properties, particularly increased yields reported for many crops. Adding Biochar to soil generally raises pH, increases total nitrogen and total phosphorus, encourages greater root development, hosts more beneficial fungi, provides a habitat for beneficial microbes, and reduces available aluminum.

The enhanced nutrient retention capacity of Carbon amended soil not only reduces the total fertilizer requirements, but also the climate and environmental impact of croplands. Char-amended soils have shown 50 – 80 percent reductions in nitrous oxide emissions, and reduced runoff of phosphorus into surface waters and leaching of nitrogen into groundwater. As a soil amendment, BioChar significantly increases the efficiency of and reduces the need for traditional chemical fertilizers, while greatly enhancing crop yields.

Soil Amendment – Agricultural Market

According to the United Nations Division of Statistics, farmland worldwide exceeds 7,035,640,217 acres, with more than 5,701,535,392 acres dedicated to croplands.  With a low application rate of just one ton of BioChar for every five acres, the agricultural market would require approximately 1,140,307,078 tons of BioChar. This is over one billion tons of BioChar alone for the agricultural market, and at $500 per ton equals a market value of $570,153,539,200 – more than half of a trillion dollars.

Nursery, Greenhouse and Floriculture Market

 

Mercury Removal

The next five years could see the emergence of the largest-ever market for carbon and the use of powdered carbon to control mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants in North America. Driven by state environmental legislation in the USA and limitations on new power plant construction, this market is estimated to increase from 5,000t powdered carbon in 2007 to 125,000t in 2010. Growth in demand for carbon could accelerate to close to 400,000t in 2015 if US federal legislation, requiring installation of 600-700 carbon injection systems, is introduced.

Total world demand for carbon therefore has the potential to rise by nearly 10%py to 1.36Mt in 2015, with mercury emission control accounting for 30% of projected total consumption.

According to ADA-AES, 1.5 billion pounds per year will be required to treat 1100 coal-fired power plants. CCSG is more conservative and has forecasted a mercury removal market of 165 million pounds per year of carbon beginning in 2010.¹

Announced by the US Department of Commerce in February 2007 and unanimously affirmed by the International Trade Commission in March 2007. The tariff is for an initial five-year period and subject to renewal in 2012. This tariff does not cover carbon from China activated using chemicals, reactivated carbons or carbon cloth or carbon paper.

This tariff is a result of Calgon Carbon Corp. and Norit Americas, Inc. anti-dumping petition with the US government. The average duty at will be in addition to the standard 4.8 percent duty for imported carbon (HS code 3802.10) making the total duty approximately 72 percent. Some Chinese manufacturers were assessed duty rates as high as 228 percent for not being cooperative or not providing requested information.