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| SSTP Reports That Texas A&M University Confirms Validity of Its Green Energy Technology |
BAYTOWN, TX -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 12/21/09 -- Sustainable Power Corp. (PINKSHEETS: SSTP) is pleased to report that testing conducted at the world-renowned Texas A&M University confirms the validity of its proprietary Green Energy Technology .
A team of scientists from Texas A&M have completed their multidisciplinary analysis confirming the company's earlier claims. The Texas A&M report states, "SSTP demonstrated that the oil yields with pyrolysis are much higher than simple mechanical squeezing process of soy seeds." With Sustainable Power's proprietary process involving heating biomass in a reactor vessel with the presence of the Company's proprietary catalyst, Texas A&M reported a yield of 54.4% oil in addition to 25.3% flammable gas and 20.3% biochar. The biochar could be used as a solid fuel or, unburned, it represents a stable, sequestered form of carbon that would qualify for greenhouse gas credits.
Among Texas A&M's findings in the Confidential Report was that " Sustainable Power Corp. ... invented a proprietary catalytic process which produces bio-fuels from what is essentially a heavy crude and light crude oil by a thermo-chemical pyrolysis... process as opposed to conventional pyrolysis... which typically occurs at... higher pressures." The report added, "The tests conducted with blow torch indicated that oils produced with SSTP's Licensed catalysts readily ignited while oils produced without the catalyst did not ignite easily."
Previous independent analysis by AmSpec Services LLC of the oil produced by Sustainable Power's process, called Vertroleum®, shows nearly identical yields to the Texas A&M report. In addition, AmSpec refined the oils into biogasoline, marine fuel and a replacement gasoline for E85 flex fuel. In witnessing the process AmSpec also determined that when using feed stocks of corn, soybeans, wheat, sunflower and other raw agricultural products, the fuels meet the US Energy Policy Act's requirements for cellulosic biomass. A cellulosic biofuel producer that is registered with the Internal Revenue Service may be eligible for a tax incentive in the amount of up to $1.01 per gallon of cellulosic biofuel sold.
Sustainable Power Corp.'s President and CEO, M. Richard Cutler, Esq., said, "It has been an arduous process of getting validation of the SSTP technology because the reporting of such high yields of oil and gas really seemed unbelievable. We are excited that one of the finest, most prestigious research universities in the country, Texas A&M , has been able to validate the efficacy of the process and the yields. We look forward to working with them in the future as we now begin commercializing this process that can produce non-polluting, renewable energy from food wastes, crop wastes, forestry waste and municipal solid waste. With its rapid commercialization, this process truly holds the promise of helping to liberate America from its dependence on foreign oil while eliminating the pollution and carbon footprint associated with fossil fuels."
About Sustainable Power Corp.
Sustainable Power Corp. (PINKSHEETS: SSTP) is a green energy provider focused on environmentally safe biofuels (Vertroleum®), biogases, and biochar. The company has developed a renewable fuel source able to be produced from non-food organic feed stock. www.sstp.us
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 | SUSTAINABLE POWER CORPORATION (SSTP) Sustainable Power Corp. is a green energy provider focused on production and sale of our environmentally-safe biofuel known as Vertroleum®, as well as power generation utilizing this biofuel in generators. | |||||||||||
Sustainable Power Corporation 7100 Highway 146 South Baytown, TX 77520 Phone: 1-800-501-6089 Fax: 1-866-431-9368 http://www.sstp.us |
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 | Sustainable Power Corp. Appoints Former Advisor to USDA Transition Team on Biofuels and Renewable Energy to Its Scientific and Technical Advisory Board Sustainable Power Corp. announced that the Company has added David Mager to its scientific and technical advisory team headed by Dr. Thomas S. Hartwick, PhD. One of the organizers of the first Earth Day and a strong community activist, David Mager was one of the advisors on the current administration's USDA Transition Team in helping prepare incoming Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack on the issues associated with biofuels, renewable energy and sustainability. David Mager is a nationally-known expert on sustainability who has advised many companies in various technologies over the past 30 years and has worked on the successful commercialization of laboratory-scale environmental technologies. | Sustainable Power Corp. Appoints Dr. Thomas S. Hartwick as Scientific and Technical Advisor to the Company Sustainable Power Corp. announced that the company has appointed Dr. Thomas S. Hartwick as Chairman of the newly-formed Scientific and Technical Advisory Board of Sustainable Power Corp.Dr. Thomas S. Hartwick is a nationally-known high-technology expert who has advised more than 500 high-tech companies over the past 50 years, as well as having served on many government advisory boards. Dr. Hartwick's function at Sustainable Power Corp. is to provide advice and counsel on the commercialization of SSTP's Green Energy Vertroleum? process utilizing the Company's proprietary catalyst to produce biofuels, biogases, and biochar |
| Company Overview |
| Sustainable Power Corporation (OTC.PK: SSTP) Sustainable Power Corp. is a green energy provider focused on Environmentally-safe power generation and biocrude (Vertroleum®). The company has developed a renewable fuel source able to be produced from non-food, organic feed stock. The company’s technology for the production of biofuels from municipal solid waste is essentiallythe holy grail of energy production and emission remediation – the creation of high energy biofuels and biogas, and the generation of electricity through the utilization and gasification of ordinary trash. Biofuels are now a tremendous alternative to fossil fuels. The well-known problem historically has been that biofuels, in particular ethanol and biodiesel, have been too expensive and inefficiently produced (estimated to cost as much as $2.10 per gallon), and in many cases have negatively impacted the food supply because of the use of food products diverted to production of fuel. Many ethanol manufacturers have been driven to terminate operations because of the high cost of fuel supply. The production of ethanol has been stated to drive up food costs by as much as 75% in some instances. The focus of Sustainable Power Corp. has been the production of biofuel which is (1) cost efficient beyond anything previously achieved with ethanol or other biofuels and (2) not reliant on food crops or other viable bio materials for fuel. The result of this research and development has been the completion of a process which not only accomplishes these objectives, but does so with positive environmental impact revenues as the Company changes the world as we know it with respect to energy. The SSTP Process The Vertroleum™ family of fuels is Sustainable Power’s biofuel primary product. The process for creation of Vertroleum® is the result of 21 years of exhaustive research and development and the expenditure of almost $30 million in development capital. Vertroleum™ contains the same hydrocarbons as petroleum crude oil, and when used in the same distillation process used by petroleum companies, can be further refined to produce biogasoline (BG-100), a substitute for gasoline E85 in flexible fuel vehicles, biokerosene (jet fuel), a diesel blendstock naptha (an octane enhancer), heating oil, refined diesel, tars and plastics. The Company’s biocrude oil can be refined into 69 other renewable fuels or chemical materials as well. How is Vertroleum® created? Effectively, Vertroleum® is created through the “SSTP Process” which is a chemical/mechanical process utilizing a modified gas pyrolysis, but which does not exhibit any of the problems typical of pyrolysis reactions. The most significant difference between the SSTP Process and pyrolysis is the use of a proprietary catalyst. In nature, biomass becomes buried underground and over millions of years of exposure to heat and pressure it converts into fossil fuels. The SSTP Process essentially accomplishes this same eons-long process in only eight and one half minutes. The SSTP Process can use a vast number of renewable biomass feedstocks, but currently is focused on the use of municipal solid waste because of its other two benefits – (i) the positive environmental impact of the removal of garbage and waste from landfills and (ii) the fact that the company is paid to take it. This feedstock is delivered to the facility and then fed into the “reactors” which are constantly maintained under a vacuum. Upon introduction to the reactors, a proprietary catalyst is mixed with the feedstock as it enters the processing tube, where it becomes active. This creates a unique, highly energetic, catalytic thermo chemical reaction whereby the carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms in the feedstock become separated from each other at extraordinary reaction speeds that also release the energy that held them together in their molecular bonds. At the completion of the process, the only materials in the processing tube are gases and feedstock ashes known as biochar. The materials are gradually reduced in temperature and the reaction is completed.The cooled gases and biochar are then fed into cyclonic cleaners and then proceed into the condensation chambers that cause the gases to condense in the form of light and heavy liquid biofuels. These SSTP Process biofuels have been trademarked under the Vertroleum® brand name. The SSTP Process also produces significant amounts of pure hydrogen and methane with no additional toxic or corrosive gases. These gases are collected after the condensation process is complete and are compressed and stored in tanks or are used to drive gas turbine generators which are used to provide electricity. Development Plan The company is ready to complete PHASE ONE of their first operating production facility. When completed, this facility would initially be capable of producing approximately 24,000 gallons of fuel oil a day (based on just four “reactors” in the facility). When this factory (or others) reaches full capacity (400 reactors), it would be able to produce 3 million gallons per day of fuel oil. Phase One Completion of the first four reactors at the Baytown, Texas facility to the point of commercial production. Phase Two Construction of plant for distillation 50,000 barrels a day plant (minimum 2,100,000 gallons of distillate (kerosene, jet fuel, naptha, diesel, marine fuel) and 900,000 gallons of bunker). Phase Three Continuing infrastructure and development of reactors to a total of 400 reactors at the Baytown, Texas facility. Completion of a waste processing facility on site for the separation, densification and pelletization of municipal solid waste sufficient to source all reactors. Obtain an EPC contract for an electric generation facility for 540 MWH of electricity into the grid. LEADERSHIP M. Richard Cutler, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer M. Richard Cutler is the principal and founder of Cutler Law Group which he formed in 1996. Cutler Law Group is Sustainable Power Corp.'s corporate and securities law firm. Mr. Cutler has practiced in the general corporate and securities area since his graduation from law school, representing dozens of public companies. Mr. Cutler is a graduate of Brigham Young University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1981); and Columbia University School of Law (J.D. 1984). While at Columbia, Mr. Cutler was honored as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, was Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems, received a Recognition of Achievement with Honors in Foreign and International Law, Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law, was twice published in the Columbia Journal of Law & Social Problems and was once published in the Texas International Law Journal. Mr. Cutler is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the State Bar of California. After law school, Mr. Cutler joined the national law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue where he practiced in the corporate, securities and mergers and acquisitions departments. Mr. Cutler subsequently spent five years in the corporate and securities department of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, a Dallas law firm. After moving to the west coast, Mr. Cutler was with the Los Angeles office of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hayes & Handler, a New York-based law firm, where he continued his general business and securities practice. In 1991, Mr. Cutler founded the law firm of Horwitz, Cutler & Beam, where he practiced corporate and securities law for five years before forming his present business, which he moved to Augusta, Georgia in 2002 and to Houston, Texas in 2009. Mr. Cutler has been admitted to the U.S. Federal District Courts, Central and Northern Districts of California, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Gerald Brent, Director and Chief Operating Officer Gerald Brent has worked on the engineering and technical aspects of the SSTP Process since its inception. His dedication to researching and perfecting this process makes him most knowledgeable to the mechanics of the SSTP technology and its byproducts. Mr. Brent is also instrumental in the design and construction of the company’s proprietary equipment, in particular the “reactors”. Bruce A. Hammack, Chief Financial Officer Mr. Hammack is a Managing member of Hammack & Co., CPA's, LLC, which has been responsible for our internal accounting. Mr. Hammack received a BBA in Accounting from Western Michigan University in 1977. For almost twenty-five years, Hammack & Co. has been servicing businesses, individuals, trusts and estates throughout Texas, the United States and South America. Mr. Hammack’s clients are principally related to or serve in the refinery, petrochemical and oil and gas business, but are also involved in other industries. Scott Hoerr, Board Member |
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