NetZero Industries Inc. has developed a highly advanced and technically superior renewable diesel production plant. Our Management Team in over three years of research and development has assembled a breakthrough energy source that saves the huge installed based of diesel equipment while cutting 97% of CO2 in operation and net zero CO2 reduction considering all elements of the chain of production including cultivation, transportation and distribution using green systems throughout.

NetZero Diesel is superior to any other form of renewable diesel in its low cost of production, low energy cost to produce, small footprint, drop in alternative to petroleum diesel and incomparable future as part of a replacement for CO2 emitting petroleum.

We have a proven base technology and existing off-the-shelf equipment using a process called fatty acid methyl ester transesterification (FAME). It is not a refinery process. It uses ultrasonic waves to fuse vegetable oil, plant-based methanol, and catalyst into fuel molecules. This method uses sophisticated equipment that does not involve heat, or carbon-based machinery and doesn't emit pollutants or produce waste of any kind. Instead, it uses proven ultra-sonic acoustic equipment to convert the feedstock into fuel.

The system uses a bioreactor core used in industrial applications for many years. Connective piping, metered pumps, monitoring, and control instrumentation operated manually or with AI systems are assembled in an assembly plant in the free trade zone on the US-Mexico border and shipped as production modules that can be installed at plant locations in hours on a plug-and-play basis. These production modules sized for shipment in standard shipping containers can be sold and shipped globally.

The process of FAME transesterification uses several different types of vegetable oils which comprise 87% of the “recipe” of ingredients or “feedstock”. In a special supply agreement the standard source of oils, mainly soy are provided in a special arrangement with Cargill who promises an unlimited supply at favored rates. Other feedstocks that can be used and are in ready supply are Vegetable oils including Soybean oil, Canola, Distillers Corn Oil, Camelina, Jatropha, Palm oil, Switchgrass, Miscanthus, Energy Cane, Sweet Sorghum, Carinata, and Duckweed.

Animal fats if obtained in large scale supply from consistent sources of supply with consistent technical specifications can be profitably used. The feedstocks can be processed at or near the location of feedstock production and at or near the point of use, reducing the total CI (carbon released) attributable to the transportation of feedstock and fuel.

Since these production plants are relatively small in size at around 5,000 square feet and three acres in standard size existing standard industrial space can be used. Since the operations use sustainable small amounts of energy in production and emit no pollutants, gases including C02 or other gases and have zero waste or toxics permitting is easy and relatively swift. Once the location is selected and supporting tankage and piping is in place the production modules can be moved and pulled in in a matter of days avoiding the years of construction and often difficult permitting found in refinery construction.

The typical plant or facility processes 1 or 2 million gallons of feedstock into fuel per month. This can be expanded to ten million gallons per month at port or intermodal locations. NetZero nonpetroleum diesel can be used in trucking, rail, marine, and other transportation. It also can be used in new power generators announced by the major Diesel Manufacturers, providing a new source of sustainable energy to supplement solar and wind, particularly in low production hours.

Profits are dependent on the availability and pricing of feedstocks but generally fall around .75 per gallon at current offtake rates and subsidy rates of 2.2 to 8 dollars per gallon pending on location and favorable subsidies cultivation and logistics. These profits are boosted tremendously by current subsidies from state and federal programs and carbon credit and offset sales.

In order to hedge against volatility in and high prices of certain standard oil types NetZero Industries has been working with DOE Brookhaven labs to participate in the finalization of CRISPR genetically modified duckweed which has been created in the lab with 10 times the energy density of Soy, the most common feedstock, and can be produced at 10% or less than the cost of soy production which is a breakthrough in the viability of renewable diesel.

Since our fuel can be made with plant-based bioethanol containing no petroleum it is considered a premium drop-in alternative to petroleum diesel for purposes of meeting legislative mandates to reduce CO2 emissions from Diesel. It is anticipated that premium rate offtake contracts can obtained from local, state, and federal users of diesel in addition to several interested major corporations.

The market for renewable diesel is vast. The US uses over three trillion gallons of petroleum diesel per year while only 3 billion gallons of renewable diesel is produced annually. The supply of renewable diesel can be anticipated to trail behind demand for many years or decades.

While most of the world’s heavy work is done with diesel engines there is no practical sustainable energy alternative to petroleum diesel. Electrification is not seen as a practical alternative energy source. The same heavy duty diesel engines in Trucks, trains, ships and electric generators can reduce CO2 emissions by 97% by simply adopting this drop-in fuel alternative with no modifications.

Thirteen trillion gallons of petroleum diesel are used worldwide in the civilian sector alone.

Unlike vehicles operating on electrical energy from the grid, still 70% fossil fuel-based and inadequate for heavy equipment, nonpetroleum diesel provides an immediate transitionary alternative turning diesel engines into sustainable energy engines better than electric vehicles.

Adding renewable-fueled power generators could create a revolutionary immediate change toward a greener future. Even without subsidies new feedstocks make NetZero Diesel highly profitable.

Plant equipment requires a small industrial footprint, has no emissions or toxic releases. Plant layout for our largest design is still small and will fit in thousands of existing available facilities. We will assemble and install the entire plant or sell and deliver the plant equipment. We have met with the staff of the Department of Transportation, Energy, USDA, and EPA and preliminary approval of our technology and network of plants, logistics plans, and fuel distribution. These agencies and our commercial partners want one hundred plants nationwide in the next year. This will grow to 300 in two years.

High performance - low frequency ultrasonics

• Ultrasonic liquid processing.

• Full reproducibility & scalability.

• Full 24h/7d capability.

• Full processing volume range (mL to tons).

• Rapid Transesterification: Methyl ester content higher than % 96.5 by weight after 15 minutes in operation.

• Improved mass transfer.

• Instantaneous mixing.

• Minute droplet size.

• Rapid processing.

Ultrasonic mixing is highly efficient and requires significantly less energy than alternative mixing technologies.

Benefits from ultrasound mixing in continuous flow through mode:

• Better mixing results in higher yield and less raw material use.

• Significant saving of methanol.

• Significantly quicker glycerin drop-out.

• Catalyst usage was decreased by approximately 25-30% compared to batch operation.

• Downstream biodiesel purification operations such as water wash, centrifuge and resin polishing all performed at significantly improved levels due to better glycerin removal, less excess methanol and less excess catalyst in the biodiesel.

• Yields of soap by-products at the water wash stage were greatly reduced as a result of better reaction conversion.

With AI monitoring, control and reporting full process control allows for:

• Process optimization.

• Reproducible/ repeatable process results continuous biodiesel quality.