Applications of BioProducts
Converting organic waste into solid BioCoal and BioSolution allows customers to realize financial and environmental value. These BioProducts can be applied within your operation or sold to a third-party.
Primary Applications:
BioSolution
Nutrients
Fertilizers
Clean Water
BioCoal
Advanced Biofuels
Activated Carbons
Technical Carbons
Nutrient Extract
Ancillary technologies can be used to isolate and recover specific nutrients such as nitrogen in the form of ammonium sulfate, commonly used as a turf builder. Macro and micro nutrients can also be concentrated for horticultural and agricultural purposes. These fertilizers can be produced synthetically but require significant fossil fuel use in their production. SoMax’s circular economic approach can produce these products without the use of fossil fuels and at competitive price points.
Fertilizer
In keeping with circular economic principles, where “waste” does not exist, we investigated this process liquid and discovered that it contains beneficial compounds including nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK), which are common fertilizers.
The liquid fertilizer can be sold in bulk to local landscapers, horticulturalists, golf courses, and farmers utilizing existing relationships.
Clean Water
A unique advantage to HTC is that it makes “new water” as a result of dehydration reactions, combining hydrogen ions with alcohol groups, resulting in H2O. Also, BioCoal’s hydrophobic shell increases dewaterability by 50% resulting in more recovered water from the feedstock compared to other biomass conversion technologies.
Ancillary technologies allow for BioSolution to be treated to local standards for repurposing and reuse.
Advanced Bio Fuels
HTC produces BioCoal with an energy density ranging from 21 MJ/kg to 31 MJ/kg, making it comparable to lignite and bituminous coal. Lignite coal is the primary fuel for coal fired power plants in the United States. SoMax’s Advanced BioFuel can be used to generate heat and electricity in Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Systems with net zero carbon emissions. Coupled with microgrids, HTC can provide distributed energy generation and consumption, allowing customers to operate independent of the electrical or natural gas grids, relegating these systems to emergency backups.
Activated Carbons
HTC provides a renewable carbonaceous solid that can be upgraded to form Activated Carbon. Activated Carbon and Charcoal are currently used in almost every industry on earth and most are derived from coal. Our products remove pollutants, contaminants and other impurities from liquids and gases.
Technical Carbons
A promising development in HTC research is the creation of carbon cathodes for energy storage/batteries. Additionally, supercapacitors used in electronic and medical devices can be made via HTC. SoMax is conducting research on the production of these new materials. Stay tuned for updates.
Ancillary Technology
SoMax has partnered with several complementary technology companies to augment our services and solutions. These technologies include pumps, dewatering devices, liquid filtration systems, hydrogen production, gasification systems, and microgrid providers.
Secondary BioCoal Consumers
Materials Manufacturers
BioCoal can replace carbon-based raw materials used in manufacturing processes, resulting in lower emissions from production facilities, helping achieve ESG targets.
Industrial Processes
SoMax’s Advanced BioFuel can replace coal, natural gas, and oil for industrial heating and power generation, with net zero carbon emissions.
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