A. Approximately 1 megawatt pr/hour depending on the type of biomass used. Our conversion rate from dry pine chips to energy gave us this yield. Biodiesel production rate converting cellulose is approximately 80-120 gallons per hour depending on density of biomass, moisture content, etc.
A. Approximately 400 lbs per day of dry base char, which is then inoculated and embedded. Depending on exactly how you treat your char, this process approximately double your weight to 800 lbs pr/day.
A. Energy tests ran for the Department of Energy using the current working Eprida machine located at the University of Georgia-Athens, we can provide this data to potential purchasers of a machine(s).
A. Yes, Please check out the machine spcifications document here or in the crash course.
A. Approximately Four million dollars, cost may vary by location and final energy creation type requirements.
A. ROI depends on how much you can sell your megawatt hour for on the grid, or biodiesel for in the location you want the machine to operate, or where you can locate and sell biodiesel. It also depends on how much you can sell your fertilizer for and we can help with that. Please see link for current going rates of activated char that do not have the properties of our product. The attached numbers (here) are a reference guide. The Carbon Char Group in conjunction with Genesis is currently establishing a higher value through testing, production, and sales in 2008. However in general an average scenario is 3-5 year ROI, with no tax credits or depreciation and minimal return on investment from Ecoss. (See financial returns here)
Hawaii is on the low end of return on investment with Act 221 (see link) if you have a state tax liability this new technology falls under the guidelines of a 100% tax write off over 5 years. In addition their cost of electricity is very high, and their utility sub contracts are very favorable to independent energy producers. Without utilizing this tax credit, the Eprida machine just on energy and sales of fertilizer should pay itself off in three years in Kauai.
For individual assessment of your particular region the Genesis Team will help you create your own economic model for ROI.
A.The simple answer is Genesis Industries and partners have hired a great engineering company name Dean Oliver http://www.dean-oliver.com/industries_final.html to complete mechanical engineering scaling up from our current model to 1 ton per hour machine. Please do not call them this is for reference information only and specifics of what they are doing with Eprida are confidential. This can be verified when you proceed to purchase our machine. They have experience in the same or related fields. Dean Oliver's reputation speaks for itself as they have successfully served the following industries: Beverage, Building Products, Cement/Lime, Chemical, Energy, Engineered Wood Products, Fiber Cement Board, Food, Forest Products, Green Biofuel, Insurance/Disaster Recovery, Kaolin, Manufacturing, Minerals, Petrochemical, Pharmaceutical, Roofing, Textile. As far as manufacturing Eprida machines, after long and considerable investigation and initiations Eprida has several options for construction of machines all viable options that you can discuss with Genesis.
A. The one ton machine produces syngas that can be used to provide heat, steam, or electricity with generator. To make all types of fuels such as F-T diesel, ethanol, methanol, gasoline, and/or DME a secondary unit is required to convert the syngas. At the present time we use syngas to produces straight to the grid electricity.
A. Yes. For the purposes of all around easy use, the Eprida hydrogen production model will be deployed later, our first machine for sale makes a clean, crude, biodiesel that is EPA acceptable and clean as most biodiesel fuel for all diesel generators. Depending on your location and utilization of a new or used standard diesel generator your additional cost may be around one million.
A. Three. Two feeders and one operator
A. Eprida will have online monitoring of machines for service purposes and will be able to FedEx any parts anywhere in the world overnight. In addition we will supply expert engineering and technical operating, repairing operations remotely or work with you on site to ensure minimum downtime experiences.
A. Approximately 12 months until it arrives at your door and is up and operational. We construct, test and operate, then break it down and ship it to you, in order to insure proper operation of each machine.
A. Our Carbon Research Group will help you to modify your char to create customized, microbiologically inoculated, nutrient embedded, Ecoss.
A. Yes. Please complete the short questionnaire in the upper right corner and someone will call you within 48 hours.