fficer of Fuel Makers
September 25, 2008
It is truly an honor to be selected for one of the first grants offered by Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy Program. The Fuel Maker’s team is very honored to accept this award.
Let me introduce some of the people who will make this possible.
Sandy Dvorak
Bob Guelig - Guelig’s waste Removal and Demolition
Cindy Mueller
Brenda
John Krueger
We would also like to thank Governor Doyle and the grant selection team for having confidence in Fuel Makers to bring this technology to market here in WI. This grant will greatly assist Fuel Maker’s to demonstrate its technology to help Wisconsin reach the goals of energy independence. We are very conscious that these funds come from the taxpayers of Wisconsin and our team is very determined to bring value to Wisconsin with our demonstration facility.
In short, our efforts are in the area of converting biomass and waste streams into liquid fuels. In conjunction with our NM partner we have had most of the pieces of this process commercially operational for over two years. With this grant we will have the funding necessary to bring all the separate pieces together under one roof.
The specific grant objectives are: one to develop a demonstratable gasification, gas scrubbing and catalytic fuel reactor facility, two to provide documentary proof that diesel, ethanol, and methanol can be produced from wood chips, municipal solid wastes and other biomass., three to determine the various cost factors associated with synthetic fuels and four to test various catalysts for fuel yields.
All this information is critical for the investment community before full scale facilities will be funded.
According to the USDA Forest Service, Wisconsin has over 1 million tons of wood biomass available per year and this does not include crop residues, municipal sold wastes, and construction debris which are also suitable. In addition to having a process which can help “clean up” the trash; the process is also very environmentally friendly. We are mostly carbon neutral and the only air emissions generated from the process come from a clean running electrical generator utilizing excess synthesis gas. This makes us electrical grid independent when in operation.
We are estimating that Wisconsin could produce $1 billion dollars worth of transportation fuels from unused biomass spurring economic growth in our state.
We are looking forward to assisting in the efforts of the WI Energy Independence program to bring greater prosperity to Wisconsin.
Robert H. Dvorak
