BE A BETTER CO2MPANY.
As the world puts on more and more pressure to reduce emissions, our technology offers an economic breakthrough for companies in hard-to-abate sectors.
Incorporating the Hydrobe® process into an existing plant or facility with an emissions challenge is relatively simple. No retooling. No rethinking your supply chain. Simply put, emissions are captured before they enter the atmosphere and converted into products of value. This reduces direct carbon emissions and creates new revenue streams from the recycled products. Additional benefits can be achieved through reduced carbon liabilities, and access to government incentives.
WE TURN YOUR CO2 INTO ROI.
Hydrobe® offers a pathway to reduce CO2 entering the atmosphere. The Hydrobe® process recycles carbon emissions into high-value outputs such as lipids, proteins, carbon rich biomass and fertilizer.
Sugars can be fermented into products like hydrogen or ethanol, or used within the Hydrobe® process to substantially increase lipid production at minimal cost. Lipids are a feedstock into renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, and plastics and other polymer production processes. The biomass post lipid extraction is rich in protein, making it highly valuable as a food chain product. It also has potential value as a coal replacement for industrial processes and energy.
Another use of the Hydrobe® output is fertilizer, as the microalgae extract contains plant nutrients and live soil bacteria in liquid form. It can be deployed as a seed coating and on fields using standard broadacre spray equipment. Broadacre trials in Brazil and Australia, whilst early stage, are promising for yield gain and increasing soil carbon levels. We expect to commence peer review and independent replication in the near term.
SKY-HIGH POTENTIAL.
Demand for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is increasing rapidly. In 2023, global SAF production was around 0.5MT and may reach 1.5MT in 2024. To achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2050, SAF production needs to increase to at least 350MT per annum.
Hydrobe® lipid feedstock is ideally suited to the HEFA method of SAF production. HEFA stands for hydrotreated esters and fatty acids, and uses hydrogenation to remove oxygen, and crack and isomerize straight paraffinic molecules.
The HEFA process has low capital and operating costs relative to other SAF production processes. Hydrobe® lipid feedstock is complementary to the HEFA process with low land and water use, and negligible carbon intensity and biodiversity impacts.
As it does not compete for land use with food crops, the Hydrobe® process is poised to become an important link in the SAF chain as the industry expands.
WHERE WE'RE AT.
Hydrobe is in the scale up phase of its technology development cycle. The current pilot is one scale factor below commercial size equipment and there are several design optimization processes to complete. Product acceptance validation commences in H2 2025. Potential sites for the first commercial scale demonstration plants have been identified adjacent to emission sources. The engineering and strategic pathway to commercialisation will initially focus on those site environments.
A key benefit of Hydrobe's core IP is that rapid microalgae cell wall removal in the absence of heat or pressure creates optionality of fractionated or whole products from the resulting biomass. Hydrobe® invites companies interested in the ingredients or products a large scale microalgae based biomass system could produce to contact us now.
