Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit
Defense Energy Technology Challenge
Hawaii Convention Center
Honolulu, Hawaii
September 13, 2011
© 2011 LanzaTech Inc. All rights reserved.
Dr. Jennifer Holmgren
CEO, LanzaTech Inc.

 Founded in January 2005
 Funding
– New Zealand Government – $US 10M
–
Series A: Khosla Ventures - $US 12M in 2007
– Series B: Qiming Ventures - $US 18M in 2010
 Team
CSO/Founder: Dr. Sean Simpson
–
80 staff
– Synthetic Biology
– Analytical
– Engineering
– Auckland (New Zealand),
Chicago (USA) and
Shanghai (China)
 IP Portfolio
– >60 patents filed
– 2 proprietary microbe families
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Novel gas fermentation technology captures CO-rich gases and converts the carbon to fuels and chemicals
Gas feed stream
Gas reception Compression Fermentation Recovery Product tank
•
Gases are sole source of energy and carbon
•
Production of fuels and chemicals
•
Potential to make material impact on the future energy pool
(>10s of billions of gallons per year)
•
Completely outside of the food value chain
•
Biofuel, carbon capture and energy efficiency technology solution
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Ethanol Potential
From LanzaTech Process
1.4 billion tons steel/yr Globally
30 billion gal/yr
Steel
Industry
Biomass
1.3 billion tons/yr potential in US
190 billion gal/yr
•
Access to opportunity and on purpose derived gas streams
•
Potential to make significant impact on the fuel pool
•
No impact on food production
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Pilot Demonstration Commercial
2008 4Q2011
– 15,000 gallons ethanol per year
–
BlueScope steel mill, NZ
– Operating since 2008
– 100,000 gallons ethanol per year
– Baosteel
–
March 27: Ground breaking
1Q2013
– > 50 million gallons per year
–
Baosteel
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0,7
0,6
30% of Carbon in
BOF gas is
Captured as
Ethanol
0,5
0,4
0,3
0,2
0,1
0
Conventional, No
Capture*
Conventional, CO2
Capture*
IGCC-O2, No
Capture*
IGCC, CO2 Capture* BOF Gas to
Electricity, no
Capture
*Reference: DOE/NETL2007/1281 “Cost and Performance Baseline for Fossil Energy Plants”
BOF Gas to Ethanol
 LanzaTech process produces valuable products with a higher energy efficiency than a power plant
 LanzaTech captures 30% of the carbon from BOF (Basic Oxygen
Furnace) gas as valuable hydrocarbons
Redefining Carbon Capture
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Resources CO
Industrial
CO
H
2
Syngas:
Biomass, Coal, Methane
H
2
CO
2
COG, Chemical
CO
2
Power
Customized
Catalysts
Native
Synthetic
Engineering
Control
Chemistry
Product Suite
Product Suite
C
2
• Ethanol
• Acetic acid
Hydrocarbon Fuels
(diesel, jet, gasoline)
C
3
• i -propanol
• acetone
C
4
• BDO
• n -Butanol
• i -Butanol
• Succinic acid
C
5
• Isoprene
Thermochemical Approaches
Chemical
Intermediates
Olefins
Other
• PHB
• …….
Chemicals
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* Gas Feed Stream
Gas Reception Fermentation Recovery Alcohol
Mixture
Chemical Synthesis Rectification Diesel
15%
Gas Feed Stream
• CO from Industrial Waste Gases
• Syngas from Biomass, MSW, Reformed Natural Gas or Other Sources
Jet Gasoline
50% 35%
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Property
Total Aromatics, volume %
Freeze point, ° C
Flash point, ° C
Density at 15 ° C, kg/L
Heat of combustion, MJ/kg
Hydrocarbon Type Analysis
Aromatics, volume %
Aromatics, mass %
Cycloparaffins, mass %
Paraffins
API Gravity at 60 o F
Olefins, % volume
Test Method D7566 Sample
D1319
D5972
< 25
< -40
0.6
< -77
D93 > 38 54
D4052 0.751 - 0.770
0.762
D4809 > 42.8
43.5
D6379
D2425
D2425
D2425
D1298
D1319
< 0.5
< 0.5
< 15 report
52 - 57 report
< 0.2
< 0.3
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91
54.2
1.0
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• RSB Criterion 3c Lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of a biofuel blend, calculated by using the RSB lifecycle methodology, shall be on average
50% lower than the applicable fossil fuel baseline.
• LanzaTech Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF ) Gas Process ~ 60% reduction
– Based on LCA analyses performed by Michigan Technological University and Tsinghua University relative to petroleum gasoline
80
60
40
20
160
140
120
100
104
145
131 Life Cycle GHG
Emission
69
62
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 LanzaTech Case 1:
Steam Generated for Ethanol Recovery

LanzaTech Case 2:
Waste Heat from Steel Mill used for
Ethanol Recovery
0
Conventional
Gasoline
Sweet
Sorghum
Corn Cassava LanzaTech
(Case 1)
LanzaTech
(Case 2)
• LanzaTech Waste Biomass Syngas Process In progress
–
Based on a custom pathway in the GREET model, initial results have shown >80% GHG reduction relative to petroleum gasoline
GHG footprint is <50% of the footprint of producing petroleum fuels
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FRL
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Description
Production Capacity
Established
Toll Gate
Full Scale Plant Operational
SB
TBD
8
7
6
Commercialization
Validated
Fuel Approval
Full-Scale Technical
Evaluation
Business model validated and
GHG assessment accepted
Fuel Class/Type listed in manuals
Fuel properties, Rig and engine testing
5 Process Validation
4
Preliminary Technical
Evaluation
Scaling from Laboratory to Pilot Plant
Specification Properties
Evaluated
3 Proof of Concept Basic Fuel Properties validated
2
Technology Concept
Formulated
Complete feedstock process identified
1
Basic Principles
Observed and Reported
Process feedstock principles identified
In
Progress
In
Progress
In
Progres
FRL
6
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Project Objective: develop a cost-effective hybrid conversion technology for catalytic upgrading of biomass-derived syngas to jet fuel and chemicals to meet the price, quality and environmental requirements of the aviation industry
Wood
Stover
Switchgrass
Gasification
& Syngas
Conditioning
EtOH
Fermentation
& Alcohol
Recovery
2,3BD
Catalysis
Catalysis
Integration
System Integration, Optimization and Analysis
Gasoline
Jet Fuel
Diesel
Butadiene
MEK

Steel
Minimal competition for industrial waste gases only alternatives are cogen or heating
Multiple plants per partner
Refining
Chemicals
Coal
Biomass

2011
• Dr. Sean Simpson was named NZ
Entrepreneur Of The Year in the Technology and Emerging Business Category
• 2011 Frost & Sullivan Global Green
Excellence Award for Technology Innovation in Green Chemistry
• Ranked 27 in Hot 30 Renewable
Chemicals Companies
• Finalist ICIS
Innovations Award,
Best Innovation by a SME
• TiE50 for energy and cleantech
• The top 50 represent the best in entrepreneurship –
“risk-taking yet pragmatic, visionary but market aware”…
The global Red Herring Top 100, which recognises LanzaTech as one of the 100 most innovative new technology companies.
Double Win for LanzaTech
• 2011 NZBIO Company of the Year
• Cofounder and chief scientist
Dr. Sean Simpson won the NZBIO
2011 Young Biotechnologist of the Year Award
Triple Win for LanzaTech
• Ranked 38 in Top 100 people in Bioenergy
• Ranked 31 in Top 50 Companies in Bioenergy
• Technology of the Year Award
Ranked among the top 100 private companies in Asia.
Ranked among the top 100 private companies globally.
The Global Cleantech 100 highlights the most promising private clean technology companies around the world.
2010
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Aligns:
Allows:
Industrial
Growth
Land
Energy
Security
To Produce
Food
Energy
Efficiency
For People
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• To meet growing energy demand & stabilize atmospheric
CO
2 levels - need to diversify fuel pool and introduce
>30% drop in zero carbon fuels
• The LanzaTech process can capture non-food, waste carbon to produce low cost alcohols
• Alcohols produced via the LanzaTech process are an excellent substrate for conversion to drop-in hydrocarbon fuels
• Commercial alcohol production rates on raw industrial waste gases has been demonstrated at scale
• Compelling volumes of waste gases world wide have potential to make significant impact on the fuel pool
• Collaborating with leading conversion partners, industry agencies, and certification bodies to develop sustainable, low cost, integrated hydrocarbon fuels processes from non-food sources
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