AQP Bio turns pyrolysis oils and HTL bio-oils from forestry residues, waste tires, and industrial waste streams into refinery-ready fuel. It deploys at the source. No reformer. No external hydrogen. No infrastructure to justify before the first barrel.
Refineries can't process bio-oils as-is. Most renewable oil producers have nowhere to sell.
The AQP Bio catalyst is built on carbided chemistry, a non-sulfide, water-tolerant active phase. This process generates the hydrogen it needs in the most efficient way. Most catalysts break down where ours starts working.
Thousands of hours across eight feedstock types. The numbers below are measured outputs, not projections.
Among the highest-TAN feedstocks we've run. AQP Bio eliminated total acidity and cut oxygen from 11.3% to under 1% — the longest continuous run reported in published literature for this class of feedstock.
Dairy waste HTL arrives dense, high in nitrogen, and loaded with compounds that typically poison a catalyst fast. AQP Bio brought TAN, sulfur, and oxygen all to zero under stable conditions.
Waste tire oil is high in sulfur and nitrogen — both hard to process cleanly. AQP Bio removed over 80% of the sulfur and reduced nitrogen by up to 80%, with stable operation and no special handling required.
With 25% water and 51% oxygen, this feedstock would kill a conventional sulfide catalyst on contact. AQP Bio upgraded it to a predominantly diesel-range product — 65% diesel yield — with zero TAN and zero water.
Also validated on municipal biosolids, aqueous sugar syrups, and co-processing of renewable + fossil feedstocks.
AQP Bio is powered by NanosTech's proprietary molybdenum carbide catalysts, led by the Olympia family alongside other proprietary catalyst bed combinations. Together they run the full slate of chemistry the hardest feedstocks demand: CO₂ activation, hydrodeoxygenation, hydrodesulfurization, hydrodenitrogenation, hydrogenation, and reverse water-gas shift, with no dewatering step, no external hydrogen, and no noble metals. They deliver precious-metal performance at a fraction of the cost, and unlike those systems, they scale for industrial deployment. With the longest continuous operation time in the industry*, across 8 feedstocks.
*Based on published data.
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Catalyst design, feedstock performance data, deployment configurations, and market economics for renewable bio-oil upgrading.
*Based on published data.
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