Greentech Lead America:  EnviraCarbon has announced a new renewable energy solution that molecularly alters renewable biomass feedstock into EnvirAnized Biofuel (EBF).
EBF is a product that looks, transports, stores, pulverizes and burns like coal. The only thing it doesn’t do that coal does, is pollute. The superfast process changes woody biomass into clean carbonized EBF, drastically condensing the process that took nature 100 million years to accomplish into a matter of minutes.
Because the Enviranization process forces biomass to take on the physical characteristics of coal it can be directly used by coal-burning or biomass fired power plants and industrial facilities without any modification or retrofitting to their existing boiler systems.
The product provides a clean renewable energy alternative to the population. Because EBFcan be used interchangeably with coal or biomass, it eliminates the need for coal burning facilities to spend the billions of dollars in capital expenditures necessary for compliance.
The EBF product has the same heat value as bituminous coal from the eastern U.S. (12,000+ BTUs), it exhibits a much greater heat value than wood pellets and unlike wood pellets, it is hydrophobic. The EBF product contains negligible amounts of sulfur and non-detectable levels of mercury, arsenic, and lead which are toxic elements in coal. EBF is also, by most standards, at or near carbon neutral.
ECI facilities use only certified sustainable biomass and/or waste wood as feedstock so facilities are exceptionally gentle on the environment in the production of EBF. EBF facilities require a relatively small footprint while producing large quantities of EBF, the company said.
With a commercial facility presently under construction, export of EBF is expected to begin first quarter 2014.