LanzaTech

Leading the way in carbon re-use technology

Spearheading NEW IDEAS in Bio-commodity Technology

With global energy demand expected to double over the next 40 years amid ever-increasing concerns over greenhouse gas-mediated climate change, there is a growing need to explore all available energy resources and technologies to enable sustainable industrial growth. The challenges are clear: How do we expand our manufacturing and processing base without increasing our carbon footprint? Where do we find resources to meet the rapid growth in global demand for transport fuels without compromising global food or farmed resources? How do nations achieve greater energy security and energy efficiency? How do we manage industrial waste in ways that respond to our global energy and environmental challenges? World primary energy demand
12 10 Mtoe, K 8 6 4 2 0 1980 1990
Fossil fuels Zero-carbon fuels Zero-Share of zero-carbon fuels (right axis)

12 10 Mtoe, K 8 6 4 2 0 1990 2000 2010 2020

36% 30% 24% 18% 12% 6% 0 2030

2000

2010

2020

2030

China and India Rest of non-OECD OECD

Source: IEA, World Energy Outlook 2009

Fossil fuels Zero-carbon fuels Share of zero-carbon fuels (right axis)

Global energy demand will double over the next 40 years largely driven by growth in China and India. Containing CO2 growth to a 450 ppm scenario will require that zero carbon fuels make up more than 30% of the fuel pool.

Fueling the future through carbon cycling

To meet increasing global demand for affordable, low-carbon transport fuels, LanzaTech has developed a gas fermentation process that produces ethanol and high-value chemicals from renewable resources that feed on industrial flue gases and waste. Carbon monoxide is generated in large volumes

as a manufacturing by-product in industries ranging from steel production to oil refining. Rather than allowing the CO gas to be emitted into the atmosphere as CO2, LanzaTech captures it and uses it as a resource. This costeffective carbon capture and beneficial re-use greatly improves the facilitys overall energy efficiency and profitability while reducing its carbon footprint.

The LanzaTech Process

Gas feed stream

Gas reception

Compression Fermentation

Recovery

Product tank

Clean industrial growth requires new ideas

At the heart of the LanzaTech process is our patented, wholly-owned microbe that uses gas as its sole source of carbon and energy for fuel and chemical production. Alternative technologies often require the use of food or farmed resources for renewable fuel production. Because our microbe is nutrient agnostic and completely tolerant to the extreme levels of contaminants found in steel mill and other industrial off gases, our process can use the lowest cost, most readily-available resources, including hydrogen-free gases. These include: Industrial flue gas from steel mills and other processing plants. These gases are rich in carbon monoxide and poor in hydrogen. Syngas generated from any biomass resource (e.g., municipal waste, agricultural or forestry waste, organic industrial waste such as tires and waste wood). Syngas contains both carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Coal-derived syngas rich in carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Steam reformed methane (e.g., biogas) that is rich in hydrogen. Through the utilization of these widely available resources, our process provides a strategically important route to renewable fuels without impacting food resources.

New Zealand having achieved an annual production capacity of 15,000 gallons using real waste gas to grow our microbes. This successful pilot program has proven the LanzaTech fermentation process works, clearly demonstrating: Commercial ethanol productivities Tolerance to contaminants in raw gas streams from the steel making process without gas scrubbing Scalability of reactor design LanzaTech now has a rapid commercialization plan in place, with the worlds first steel waste to ethanol production plant scheduled to be fully operational and profitable by 2013.

Resolving the hydrogen puzzle

Synthetic biology for high-value chemicals

LanzaTech is the first company to develop a genetic modification system for a gas fermentation microbe. Through this robust genetic tool box, we have been able to: Secure multiple proprietary genomes Construct a detailed gene expression database Establish our proprietary synthetic biology platform Develop a plug-and-play gene expression/gene regulation system These advancements will allow us to move beyond ethanol production to other fuels and chemicals (e.g., 2,3-BD, isoprene, MEK, isopropanol, etc.), which serve as the building blocks for products such as diesel, jet fuel, olefins, and plastics. Only LanzaTech can use hydrogen-free gases for the production of ethanol. This is because our proprietary microbe can actually produce hydrogen from carbon and water as required. Allows any CO:H2 ratio to be used Reduces the need for thermochemical Water Gas Shift, improving overall C balance Enables a highly efficient, low-energy route to carbon capture and sequestration/reuse

Tested in the lab, Proven in the field

The LanzaTech process has been demonstrated extensively at lab scale, and since November 2008 at our pilot plant at BlueScope Steel in Glenbrook,

LanzaTech: Spearheading New Ideas in Bio-commodity Technology

LanzaTech was founded in early 2005 with a vision to be a dominant technology provider in the industrial bio-commodities arena. Our goal was simple: to develop and commercialize proprietary technologies for the production of low-carbon fuels that do not compromise food, water or land resources. Throughout 2005 and 2006, the company raised funding through New Zealand-based Angel investors and secured grants. These funds provided the resources to establish LanzaTech as a technology leader. Soon thereafter, the company attracted Series A investment from an investor consortium led by Khosla Ventures; the Series B financing was led by Qiming Ventures. Today, LanzaTech is led by a multinational Board of Directors and Management Team with offices in China New Zealand, and the United States. Our rapidly growing team of biologists, process design engineers, expanding patent portfolio and state-of-the-art lab facility are resulting in a list of capabilities unmatched in the industry. Gas Fermentation: our lab was specifically designed to allow quick and efficient investigation and research of every aspect of a commercial gas fermentation process. Synthetic Biology: we are now capable of defining and directing fuel and chemical production at the DNA-level. Our microbe has a WHO Category 1 safety rating (the same as Bakers yeast). Microbiology: we have one of the worlds largest collections of industrial fuel and chemical production microbes. To date, we have developed two new proprietary strains of gas fermentation microbe. Analytical Chemistry: we have in-house access to full, on-line, high-throughput gas and liquid analysis facilities. Fermentation: our fermentation suite comprises more than 20 bench-top gas fermentation reactors and a test-bay allowing the development and demonstration of several prototype reactor designs in parallel and at scale.

Advanced Engineering and Rapid Scale-up

The engineering team is drawn from a diverse range of backgrounds including process, mechanical, electrical and software engineering, as well as experience in industrial fermentation, gas handling and pressure vessel design. This process engineering expertise has been the driving force behind our rapid scale-up and commercialization plan. Operating since November 2008, our pilot plant located at the BlueScope Steel Mill in New Zealand comprises two 500 liter gas fermentation reactors linked directly to the mills off-gas exhaust. The pilot plant is fully automated and has successfully demonstrated the operation of the LanzaTech process at scale with real-world gas resources. Following on the heels of this success, our first demonstration facility, producing over 100,000 gallons of ethanol per year, will be operational in 2011 with a full scale commercial facility planned for 2012. The worlds first steel waste gas to ethanol plant will be operational and profitable by 2013.

LanzaTech
capturing carbon. fueling growth.

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