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No Carbon Left Behind Confidential

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CCU-Now: fuels and chemicals from Waste

2018 LanzaTech. All rights reserved.


Recycling Carbon

Industrial Off Gas

Steel

Refining

Ferroalloy

Gas

Feed

Stream

Compression Fermentation Recovery ProductTank

Proprietary

Microbe

Biomass

MSW

Waste Solids


CO

CO + H2

CO + H2 + CO2

H2 + CO2

e- + H2O + CO2

Industrial Waste GasSteel, Ferroalloys

Waste Carbon Streams as a Resource for Gas Fermentation

Biogas

Solid WasteIndustrial, MSW

Biomass

CO2

Reforming

Gasification

Gas Feed Stream

Gas ReceptionCompression

FermentationRecovery

ProductTank

AvailableHigh Volume/

Low Intrinsic ValueNon-FoodMost point-sourced

Gases are the soleenergy and carbon source

Pure continuous process

Acetogenic

Microbe

Liew et al., 2016, Gas Fermentation – A Flexible Platform for Commercial Scale Production of Low Carbon Fuels and Chemicals from Waste and Renewable Feedstocks. Frontiers Microbiol 7: 694.


DemoPilotLabStrainDevelopment

Commercial31X

20,000 L Vessels1-10L vessels 200-500L Vessels 500,000+ L Vessels

Process scale-up and optimization

32X50X

2005

2008

2012

Today


It takes Time….It takes Data

Multiple Demo plants

at various scales;

>70,000 operating

hours

Caofeidian, ChinaS/U: Q1 2013

300 MTA

Shanghai, ChinaS/U: Q1 2012

300 MTA

JapanS/U: Q4 2014

15 MTA

Kaohsiung, TaiwanS/U: Q1 2014

30 MTA

Glenbrook PilotAuckland, NZ

S/U: 200815 MTA

CELEBRATING12 YEARS

Freedom PinesSoperton, GA

S/U 2015

Strain

Development Lab Pilot Demo Commercial

Validate in real world Validate with your customer Validate microbe AND process Balance need for data and push to scale


Commercial Scale Beyond Steel!

Panipat, India

39k MTA

Refinery Offgas

2019

Modesto, California

24k MTA

Biomass Syngas

2019

7

South Africa

42k MTA

Ferroalloy off-gas

2019


Gent, Belgium

62K MTA

RECYCLING CARBON AROUND THE WORLD


The European Union is supporting Steelanol

The project successfully applied for funding from Horizon 2020


AM Gent Steelanol Project


Steel Mill Value Proposition

Providing 2x More returns from ethanol than from power

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Power Ethanol

US$

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Recycling Gases: Environmental, Economic, Social Benefit

Life Cycle Analyses (LCA) for ethanol performed in cooperation with: Michigan Tech University, Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB),

E4Tech, Ecofys and Tsinghua University

50-70% GHG Reduction overConventional Gasoline

WaterRecycle

No LandBiodiversity

Provides economic development

that creates “green jobs”

Provides affordable options to

meet growing demand

Provides energy security from

sustainable, regional resources

Provides new revenue stream

from waste materials

Conventional

Gasoline

LanzaTech

Ethanol

120

100

80

60

40

20

0

gC

O2

e/M

J

Life Cycle GHG Emission

90

25-45

1st RSB Certified Facility in China


Global Ethanol Production Potential

Fuel EtOH

Steel Mill Offgas150M MTA EtOH

Refinery Offgas25M MTA EtOH

Gas fermentation expands available feedstocks for fuel and chemical production

Municipal Solid Waste90M MTA EtOH

Residual Biomass1.8B MTA EtOH

Ferro-Alloy5M MTA EtOH


Japan

Unsorted MSW Syngas

Demonstration Scale

2013-2017

35k MTABiomass Syngas

2019


Unsorted MSW feed

Successful demonstration of continuous ethanol from unsorted,

non-recyclable, non-compostable, MSW-derived syngas

2013Proof of concept

2014Pilot commissioned near Tokyo

15 MTA Slip stream of commercial, non-plasma gasifier operated to

produce syngas for electricity production Reactor design leverages LanzaTech steel-mill experience

Carbon Recycling: Converting MSW to Ethanol


Consistent Performance Through Sequential Campaigns at MSW Pilot Plant

Highly consistent ethanol production performance within and across campaigns

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1.2

1.4

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1.8

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100%

Gas

Uti

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[%]

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R1

Target

1 3 6 9 12 15

Gas utilization efficiencyTarget

Highly robust process in face of a fluctuating syngas

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Ethanol… Acetic Acid… 2,3-BDO… Biomass…

Stable ethanol selectivity at 95%

Ethanol Acetic Acid 2,3-BDO Biomass

Demonstrated 80% water recycle

Low environmental footprint


Basis for commercialization

•4 pilot/demo units; 2 @ 100k gpy capacity•Over 40,000 combined hours on stream•Multiple runs exceeding 2000 hours•3 commercial projects past basic engineering design; 2 permitted; 1 LLE ordered

Field experience since 2008

•Continuous, stable ethanol production from synthetic PSA tail gas in lab•High CO2 utilization (>45% of carbon fixed from CO2)

Lab and engineering/design experience since 2015

•MSW Pilot facility in operation•2 commercial plants in basic engineering design•Over 15,000 combined hours on stream since 2015

Field experience since 2014Steel (CO)

Refinery Gas(CO+H2+CO2)

Syngas (CO+H2)


Lanzanol(Ethanol)

From Waste to Wing

Jet &Diesel

Ethanol

FractionationDehydration Oligomerization Hydrogenation

Jet range hydrocarbons (C8-C16)

selectively built from smaller molecules

16,000 liters of on spec Jet Fuel, 2,400 Diesel produced


1 Organism, over 20 Products…

Pyruvate

CO/CO2/H2

Acetyl-CoA

Ethanol

Succinate

Lactate

2,3-Butanediol

FAEE, FABE

3-Hydroxypropionate

Isopropanol

3-hydroxybutyrate

1,3-Butanediol

Joint

Development

Isobutene

1,3-Butadiene

2-HIBAMethyl Ethyl Ketone

Ketogluterate

Acetoin

1,2-Propanediol

1-Propanol

Farnesene

Isoprene

Benzoate

(p-Hydroxy; 2-amino)

Scale

UpOne Platform, over 50 Products…

Acetate

Lab OptimizationDiscovery

n-Butanol

Butyrate

Valine, leucine, Isoleucine

Mevalonate

PHB

Fatty AcidBiosynthesis

MVA pathway

Shikimatepathway

Phenylethanol

C6-C14

Alcohols

Acetone

Citramalate

Salicylate

2-Butanol

1,3-Propanediol

Alanine


“hardware”

Ethanol & 2,3-BDO

“software”

Ethanol only Improved efficiency & stability

New product: AcetoneNew product: IPA

Microbe 1.0(Native microbe)

Microbe 1.1(Improved microbe)

Microbe 2.0(Enhanced microbe with existing pathways)

Microbe 3.0(Synthetic microbe with designer pathways)

New product: IsobutyleneNew product: Higher alcohols Any product

AdvancedGenetic Toolbox

High-throughputpathway engineering

Computer-Aided Design, Modelling & Deep Learning

Disrupting cycles


Food and Fuels from CO2

Acetate Lipids

Energy Source

CO2CarbonSource

Acetate is the new sugar: Efficient capture of CO2 into Acetate using low cost sources of H2 ensures that acetate can be available in high volumes at low cost

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Conversion of CO2 and H2 to Acetate by

LanzaTech microbes

Conversion of Acetate to Lipids and protein by

IOC microbesFuels

Chemicals

Feed

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