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GTA Energy, Inc. is employing a series of proven technologies known as "gas-to-liquid", in order to produce a mixed alcohol comprised of C1; Methanol, C2; Ethanol, C3 Propanol, C4 Butanol, C5 Pentanol, C6; Hexanol, C7; Heptanol, C8 Octanol. The first technology that we employ is Gasification. This is a thermal reactive reduction process that through heat releases the bonds of the various feed stocks. These would include all the conventional ones such as coal, heavy oil, petroleum coke, stranded natural gas, coal bed methane and the more unconventional ones; oil sands, shale, flare gas, including bio-feedstocks such as crop waste, sewage, manure and municipal solid waste, yard waste, and algae. When the GTA Energy, Inc. process releases the energy stored in the feedstock, we get mainly hydrogen, carbon and oxygen. Other reactants form an inert slag, or are filtered out, resulting in a synthesis gas, or "syngas". The syngas is then processed with steam and a catalyst to provide the correct stoichiometric mixture for the catalytic reactor where the mixed alcohols are produced. These steps employ mature, proven technologies that have been employed in the production of Fisher-Tropsch fuels for decades. Historically, the emphasis has been on synthetic diesel or synthetic petroleum. The South African company Sasol has been in business with these processes for decades. We are concentrating on mixed alcohol employing a proprietary process that is inherently higher in efficiencies. The mixture of these higher alcohols lends itself to being blended with conventional fuels, bio-diesel or synthetic diesel. Since mixed alcohol is more than 34% oxygen by weight it reacts with each of these to promote increased combustion efficiency in all internal combustion engines. This leads to higher pressure developed within the combustion chamber which translates to more power and fewer emissions. Mixed alcohol can be used as an oxygenate with a higher BTU value (energy content) than ethanol. It can also be blended with other fuels to produce a 90-10 blend that will surpass the performance of E90. We at GTA Energy, Inc. are pleased to be involved in the ecological and technological breakthrough that is poised to sweep the world. Before now cheap oil has kept this technology under wraps. Now the market conditions have created a perfect storm of opportunity: volatile oil supply, high oil prices and increasing worldwide demand. The high efficiency of our process translates into more gallons per ton of feedstock, improving our economics while at the same time working to lower the greenhouse gas emissions that threaten our planet. |