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USDA Presentation. BFC Gas & Electric, LLC 110 Southeast Grant, Suite 205 Ankeny, Iowa 50021 (515) 964-6787 www.biofuels.com November 2010. Table of Contents. BFC Team Company Highlights Key Partnerships BFC Process and Capabilities Feedstock and Preparation Gasification Energy

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  1. USDA Presentation BFC Gas & Electric, LLC 110 Southeast Grant, Suite 205 Ankeny, Iowa 50021 (515) 964-6787 www.biofuels.com November 2010

  2. Table of Contents • BFC Team • Company Highlights • Key Partnerships • BFC Process and Capabilities • Feedstock and Preparation • Gasification • Energy • Strategic Growth Plan and New Business Model • Environmental and Emissions USDA Presentation

  3. BFC Team • Ken Boyle • James Huyser • Andrew Hart USDA Presentation

  4. BFC: Cedar Rapids, IA Plant • General • Area served: Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Linn County, Surrounding Region • Type: Own and operate • Start-up: 1999 • Site: 6.5 Acres; 30,000 Sq Ft. • Refuse Combustion • Type of technology: Gasification • Operation: 24 hours, 7 days a week • Tons/day: 150 • Gasification Temperature: 2000F • Waste volume reduction: 97%; ash 3% • Air Quality Control • Type of Equipment: ESP and Baghouse • Energy System • Type of Energy: Electric Power • Turbine: 7.5 MWh, 580,800 lbs/hr./88,000 homes USDA Presentation

  5. Company Highlights BFC Gas & Electric (“BFC”): • Recognized leader in the conversion of biomass-to-energy (BTE) • Experienced (over 11years)in syngas production (synthesis gas) Assets include a one-of-a-kind facility that provides: • A unique platform ($22MM initial investment) to leverage synergistic opportunities • Proprietary gasification technology that converts waste materials to syngas • A commercial size test facility for new technologies and fuels; permitted to accept more than 30 fuels sources; operates 24x7; connected to the National Power Grid • Proprietary gas analyzing software/hardware to determine maximum btu content of syngas USDA Presentation

  6. BFC Gas & Electric Layout USDA Presentation

  7. Core Capabilities Manage Waste Contract Reduction Generation of Green Power and Products Reduction of Emissions 1 2 3 USDA Presentation

  8. Key Partnerships BTE Feedstock Sources Technology & Engineering Note: Each logo above is a registered trademark of those specific organizations USDA Presentation

  9. Process Step: Feedstock and Preparation • FEEDSTOCK: • BFC is feedstock flexible having tested 150 feedstock fuels and is permitted to accept over 30. BFC can be designed to use one or more of the following feedstocks: • Industrial wastes • Agricultural and forest residues • Manure • Sewage sludge • Paper and pulp mills waste streams • Municipal wastes 3%-5% Ash Byproduct USDA Presentation

  10. Fuel Prep USDA Presentation

  11. Biomass Sourced Materials • Biomass includes municipal wastes, industrial wastes, agricultural and forest residues, manure, sewage sludge, and paper and pulp mills • Each year in the United States, more than 100 million tons of organic waste from municipal, commercial, and industrial wastes are buried at a cost of $5 billion. • Large agricultural operations produce thousands of tons of crop residues. • Forty million acres of U.S. forests produce large accumulations of slash and underbrush, which are ideal for conversion to power or oil. USDA Presentation

  12. Biomass as Energy (Examples) WOOD PAPER RECYCLE RESIDUE WOOD-CORN-PAPER BLEND USDA Presentation

  13. Fuel Receiving and Blending UNLOAD/BLEND METERING BLEND INTO SHREDDER USDA Presentation

  14. Shredding and Screening SHREDDERS SHREDDING BAGS SCREENING FUEL USDA Presentation

  15. Process Step:Gasification • GASIFIER: • Before entering the gasifier, solid feedstocks are ground into small particles, while liquids and gasses are fed directly. Then a controlled amount of air or oxygen and steam are introduced to the gasifier. The temperatures in a gasifier range from 1,400-1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat and pressure break apart the chemical bonds of the feedstock forming syngas. • The BFC gasifier is capable of processing up tp 150 tons of feedstock per day, converting 70-85 percent of the carbon in the feedstock to syngas. 3%-5% Ash Byproduct USDA Presentation

  16. BFC Process - Gasification USDA Presentation

  17. Gasification and Boiler Flame USDA Presentation

  18. Process Step:Power and Products To Power: Syngas is combusted in a highly efficient boiler and turbine to generate electricity. 3%-5% Ash Byproduct To Products: The clean syngas can be processed to make products such as chemicals, fertilizers, transportation fuels, and hydrogen. USDA Presentation

  19. Boiler USDA Presentation

  20. BFC Process - Boiler USDA Presentation

  21. BFC Cedar RapidsGenerating Green Power

  22. Turbine & Generator USDA Presentation

  23. BFC Process - Turbine USDA Presentation

  24. Strategic Growth Plan • Customer focused growth through segmentation • MSW • Biomass • Wood • Paper • Absorbents • Recycling Grow Our Markets Grow Our Customer Loyalty Grow Into New Markets • Improved customer engagement and trusted delivery and execution • Self-service capabilities • Lower cost of service • Clean Gas (3C) syngas to new value-added products (new uses of gas and better efficiency) • Leverage feedstock relationships and capabilities (Feed and Steam/Rail businesses) • Outsourced R&D (RVP program) • Co-Fire and Co-Power • Scale the Model – Build, Own, Operate, Acquire USDA Presentation

  25. BFC – Strategic Initiatives • Dryer/Mixer Technology. Allows BFC to dry new feed stocks via steam produced by the plant which generates tax credits and new products. • Rapid Verification Program. Allows BFC to leverage its gasification plant for other companies to test their own gasification and waste streams. • New Feedstocks. Allows BFC to accept alternative feedstocks (algae, biosolids ~ waste water treatement sludge, absorbents) that can be efficiently converted into clean-burning syngas. • Clean Gas and Steam Injection. BFC is partnering with tech firms that allow it to utilize syngas in new ways by cooling, cleaning, compressing and separating gas stream for higher value uses. • Production of New Drop-In Fuels. Once syngas is cooled and compressed, it can be used as a green diesel fuel utilizing the Fischer Tropsch process or new promising alternative fuel technologies in development. • Re-Power/Co-Fire. Re-powering coal fired boilers is an opportunity of interest for utilities, municipalities and industrial processors to prepare for increased regulations on CO2 emissions. USDA Presentation

  26. Process Step: Clean Gas USDA Presentation

  27. Clean Gas • Gasification systems have the scalability for future upgrades for Syngas operation. • Syngas is produced by utilizing steam and oxygen instead of air in the gasification process – producing a low nitrogen gas that is suitable for various reforming and fermentation processes • Clean Gas technologies will allow BFC to improve efficiencies; availability and through-put. • Once cleaned, the thermo-chemical process creates a platform for many transportation fuels such as diesel, jet fuel, ethanol, and hydrogen. USDA Presentation

  28. Gasification USDA Presentation

  29. New Fuel Development Biofuels Corporation plans to test systems for the conversion of syngas to ethanol and other high value chemicals USDA Presentation

  30. New Business Models:Thunderbird • Excess steam from the gasifier/boiler is used to power unique drying/mixing equipment (Marion Mixers) to dry specialized animal feed production. • Corn gluten has been a co-product of ethanol production that has limited uses due to its 4 day spoilage. • Corn gluten is rich in proteins, fat (energy), minerals, and vitamins. They are an excellent source of digestible protein and energy USDA Presentation

  31. BFC helps companies test, analyze, and develop full plans for alternative fuel plants, at any stage of development. BFC recently created the Rapid Verification Program a program designed for prospective clients to test their alternative fuels, at tonnage levels, with immediate analysis of the synthesis gas produced and full reports on anticipated operational production results. This offering goes well beyond a feasibility study by providing an immediate understanding of the technical and economic feasibilities of a waste stream’s characteristics, emissions and value. The program delivers Real-World Solutions in Real-Time – allowing BFC’s clients to reduce project risk by avoiding high capital costs of building demonstration-scale units, or even pilot plants, or making mistakes in their commercial plant construction design. Cost Savings. Avoid the high capital costs of building demonstration-scale units, constructing pilot plants, or making costly mistakes by building commercial plants on assumptions. Validation and Risk Reduction. We understand the technology and the process, increasing speed to scale-up, and BFC validates the economics and commercialization potential of emerging technologies and feedstocks while removing project and construction risk. Training. BFC hosts customer operations teams and provides as much assistance and training as you need. New Business Model:Rapid Verification Program USDA Presentation

  32. Rapid Verification Program 50 Tons Minimum of Material of Test Feedstock Required for Rapid Verification Program Testing USDA Presentation

  33. Rapid Verification Program USDA Presentation

  34. Proprietary software that provides real-time analysis of gas, allowing BFC to measure and maximize BTU value of all feedstock – including combining feedstocks. BFC Process - Software USDA Presentation

  35. Environmental Benefits Gasification is an environmental solution • Enhances the U.S. and world energy portfolio while creating fewer air emissions, using less water, and generating less waste than most traditional energy technologies. • Whether used for power generation, for production of substitute natural gas, or for production of a large number of energy intensive products, gasification has significant environmental benefits over conventional technologies. • Reduces the environmental impact of waste disposal because it can use waste products as feedstocks—generating valuable products from materials that would otherwise be disposed as wastes. • Non-hazardous byproducts are readily marketable. • CO2 can be captured from an industrial gasification plant using commercially proven technologies. USDA Presentation

  36. Competitive Processes • Incineration • Produces dangerous emissions - Furans, dioxins, other • Less complete destruction – more ash • Air is the source of oxygen • Poor public image • EPA wants alternative • Obstacles to on-site operations • No fuel gas can be recovered Gasification • Clean air comply with UK standards • More complete destruction – less ash • Water is the source of oxygen • Good public image • EPA – prefer waste technology • Straight forward operation • Recovery of product (H2 and CO) USDA Presentation

  37. Competitive Advantages • 11 years of operating experience • Proprietary systems and know-how • Feedstock flexibility with over 150 tested and 30 permitted • Unique technology, technical and supply partnerships • Proprietary gasification analysis software • Clear governmental policy and legislative support of renewable energy • WASTE-TO-ENERGY • THE FUTURE! USDA Presentation

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