SALT LAKE CITY, April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Terra Systems, Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: TSYI) Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. visited the Western
Energy Training Center ("WETC") on April 2nd, 2008 to sign Utah's SB224 Coal
Mine Safety Act and establish an office in WETC to oversee the program. During
his visit he expressed his support of the "Clean Coke" Pilot Facility being
constructed at WETC. This U.S. Department of Energy recognized, Center of
Excellence ("COE"), combines the energy industry and business expertise of
Terra Systems, Inc., Combustion Resources LLC ("CR"), and Flying Sensors with
the advanced training facilities and control methodologies of WETC. The Clean
Coke pilot facility is designed to provide a learning environment to train a
new workforce and gain hands-on experience with new technologies while
conducting further research and development ("R&D") and producing finished
product for testing in the marketplace. The pilot facility is currently
projected to begin production in July, 2008. Orders have been secured for the
initial coke production of the pilot facility, which has a design capacity of
[2] tons per hour.
The U.S. coke fuel market is highly dependent on foreign sources to meet
demand. The U.S. currently produces less than 10% of the coke product
necessary to support the $50 billion world wide coke industry. The production
of Clean Coke briquettes will help decrease U.S. dependency on foreign fuel
sources and provide a cleaner fuel to help meet ever increasing environmental
requirements. Most producers of coke utilize older technology that is very
inefficient, thus producing heavy emissions and waste products. The Clean Coke
process is "Greener" in all aspects of its operation and finished product. The
process can utilize, as a portion of its feedstock, coal that oftentimes
exists in waste piles at abandoned or existing coal mines. In addition, the
patent pending process is designed to sequester the off gas into re-usable
products and recover waste oils as a component in the feedstock blending
process. The finished Clean Coke briquettes can also be formulated to meet or
reduce emissions when combusted in industrial furnaces.
Terra Systems has secured an exclusive licensing agreement from Combustion
Resources to commercialize Combustion Resource's patent pending Clean Coke
technology. Terra Systems has begun plans to develop the first of four full
scale facilities targeted for completion by 2010. The first 240,000 ton per
year facility is planned for construction near Price, Utah. An option has been
agreed upon for an existing building structure, including the existing
processing equipment within the facility, some of which can be utilized in the
full scale plant. The primary feedstock for the pilot plant and first full
scale facility has been secured. The feedstock will be processed and supplied
by Terra Systems. Terra Systems' patented Pneumatic Accelerator Technology
will be utilized to clean the nominal value coal of ash and other
contaminants. The processed coal will then be blended with higher value
feedstock and formed into briquettes as part of the Clean Coke process. The
finished product from the Clean Coke facility can then be used as a key
component of the "charge" processed in large industrial furnaces used in the
steel, phosphorus, sugar, foundry, metals smelting and soda ash industries.
The secondary products recovered and sold from the Clean Coke process include:
ammonium sulfate, methane gas, BTX (a mixture of benzene, toluene and xylene),
and sulfur.
Bob Carter, Business Consultant with COE stated, "The ability for a pilot
facility to generate a positive cash flow while providing a hands on training
program, conducting R&D, optimizing control and operation of the process,
without shutting down the full scale facilities, is revolutionary to this
industry."
George Ford, President of TSYI added, "The pilot facility allows us to
test the Clean Coke technology in a manner that also produces a marketable
product. We intend to rapidly expand the use of this technology within the
U.S. and abroad. The pilot facility also facilitates the R&D and training
necessary to provide turnkey packages based on our patented Pneumatic
Accelerator System that can be rapidly deployed to recover nominal value waste
coal piles throughout the world."
About Terra Systems, Inc.
Terra Systems, Inc. is a clean energy technology company incorporated in
1996 focused on advanced clean energy generation, enhancement and utilization
of waste coal and upgrading of specialty carbon products. Please refer to
http://www.tsyi.com for more information on Terra Systems, Inc.
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