World wide Technological innovation Pioneers Licella Announce Commissioning

SYDNEY, Sept. 14, 2021 (World NEWSWIRE) — Licella Holdings Ltd (Licella) is delighted to announce the successful initial commissioning of its upgraded Cat-HTR™ professional-demonstration plant. The point out-of-the-art Professional Phase 1 (CS-1) facility represents the fruits of about fourteen many years of successful, constant technological innovation advancement into the Cat-HTR™ (Catalytic Hydrothermal Reactor), the firm’s groundbreaking hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) technological know-how.

CS-1 is co-owned with Canadian Forest Solutions Ltd. (Canfor), a world chief in the manufacturing of sustainable forest merchandise, through its joint undertaking, Arbios Biotech. It is created all-around the main of Licella’s massive pilot plant on the NSW Central Coastline (Australia), utilising its business-scale Cat-HTR™ reactors.

The Cat-HTR™ is a highly effective decarbonisation platform that generates substantial worth, reduced-carbon products, these as renewable transportation fuels and biochemicals. The CS-1 facility represents a universal HTL system that has the potential to process the widest range of article-shopper biomass residues and plastics in the earth.

Licella CEO, Dr Len Humphreys, mentioned that the new CS-1 facility will be capable of developing up to 140 barrels of sustainable oil for each working day, a immediate substitute for fossil crude, from put up-purchaser biomass and plastics.

“We consider that our upgraded Cat-HTR™ facility is the major operational plant of its form in the entire world currently. The commissioning of CS-1 acts as the catalyst to help the increasing commercial roll-out of our Cat-HTR™ technological know-how globally. It is an fascinating industrial milestone,” said Dr Humphreys.

Whilst older thermal upgrading technologies, these kinds of as pyrolysis and gasification, were formulated in a significantly less carbon-constrained planet, the Cat-HTR™ has been designed to keep as a lot carbon in its goods as probable. This outcomes in a bigger efficiency procedure which produces a higher excellent, stable and power dense oil.

By using drinking water to handle the thermo-chemical reactions, the Cat-HTR™ process operates at decreased temperatures, making use of a lot less power, and retains extra carbon in its products and solutions, in contrast to pyrolysis and gasification. This makes the platform well suited to our carbon-constrained globe. By comparison, pyrolysis and gasification are uncontrolled reactions, ensuing in a considerable share of carbon from the feedstock ending up as possibly solid char or gas (CO₂).

The Licella workforce, based on the NSW Central Coastline, have continued productive demo systems alongside the commissioning of the CS-1 facility. By using benefit of remote monitoring and online video accessibility, the team manufactured major technological development in a COVID-19 constrained atmosphere, enabling the company, and its world-wide associates, to make major business progress.

This development included Arbios Biotech this year forming a global alliance with Shell Catalysts & Systems, to utilise Shell’s upgrader technologies in its Cat-HTR™ commercial vegetation and generate an close-to-conclusion biorefinery option. Some of the initial biocrude manufactured from the new Cat-HTR™ CS-1 facility will be shipped to Shell’s amenities in Amsterdam for upgrading. In addition, Cat-HTR™ renewable biocrude can be fed into present refinery infrastructure, a direct substitute for fossil derived equivalents.

In parallel, Mura Technology (Mura) are developing the very first industrial HTL facility for squander plastic, with the Cat-HTR™ technology at its core, in the United kingdom via subsidiary ReNew ELP. Mura, who have a world-wide strategic alliance with KBR, a short while ago introduced an settlement with Mitsubishi Chemicals to build an highly developed recycling plant in Japan, with Licella’s Cat-HTR™ technological innovation at its main.

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About Licella
Licella is an Australian know-how development firm who invented the revolutionary Catalytic Hydrothermal Reactor (Cat-HTR™) system, the World’s most commercially advanced hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) technological know-how. HTL is the upcoming era of innovative recycling, chemically reworking low value feedstocks into sustainable oil, a immediate substitute for fossil crude. The system is established across a extensive vary of waste biomass and write-up-purchaser plastics. With far more than A$100M invested more than the earlier fourteen years, the Cat-HTR™ technologies is a industrial completely ready answer, with amenities becoming crafted around the environment by Licella and its strategic partners.

For more facts on Licella and its Cat-HTR™ engineering, visit www.licella.com

Relevant Information

Licella – CS1 Launch – Media Release Ultimate 14 September 2021.pdf

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Image 1: Licella’s Cat-HTR™ facility in NSW, Australia

The supercritical fluid boiler that heats the drinking water for CS-1 at Licella’s Cat-HTR™ commercial demonstration facility in NSW, Australia.

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