Emergent Waste Solutions Inc. products

Carbon Black (CB) is generally created from oil and gas and as such creates a high environmental footprint. The product is created when oil or gas is sprayed in very tiny jets into an incineration chamber where the material is incompletely combusted, very suddenly, leaving very small carbonized particles. CB is mainly used as a reinforcement agent in the manufacture of rubber tires, but it is also used as a pigment and, to a much lesser degree, as a food colourant when made from vegetable oils. ATS technology recaptures and purifies the CB in waste rubber tires, thereby reducing the requirement to create more virgin CB.

All biomass, when processed with the ATS plant, creates a viscous oil that can be captured and used as-is, or further refined to create a higher value product. Approximately 30% of the biomass is converted to bio-oil. The product generated by the ATS has less moisture than that of competing pyrolysis technologies and is a purer product than that created with other methodologies. This product has a relatively low market value.

When tires or plastics are processed with the ATS the liquid component is a dark coloured light diesel, equivalent to a #2 Home Heating Oil. This product can be blended as-is with regular diesel, or it can be used without further refinement in diesel engines that do not specify otherwise. It is suitable, without additional processing, for diesel generators and off-road machinery. The Green Diesel has a higher value than that of the bio-oil derived from biomass feedstock.

Biocoal is a biomass fuel. Biocoal is a replacement of coal, and it has high carbon content, is energy dense, hydrophobic (does not absorb moisture from the air) and is highly resistant to biodegradation. As such, it is also an alternative to coking coal for in steel and other metallurgical industries. Also, unlike wood pellets and other biomass, thermal power plants can use biocoal without significant changes to their plants. The US is the largest market for the global biocoal sector, accounting for 37% of global sales.  The global biocoal market was US $2,592 MM in 2020, having increased from 1,746 MM in 2015.  It is expected to have a CAGR of 8.16% and reach US $2,592 MM in 2025.