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And some great comments from @ordos:

@ordos News today is another testament that Pyrogenesis is capable of big surprises, completely unexpected, in a good way. I am very interested in details about this system and any patents that may have already been filed.

@ordos I was just thinking about the new potential graphite vertical. It can be huge. The reason is that having such a system would mean that it eliminates the need for graphite mining, e.g. natural graphite exploration and extraction, which is expensive and there are limited deposits. It means that such a system can be used to produce graphite from many sources of unorganized / amorphous carbon, such as biomass, coal, soot, charcoal, coke, industrial byproducts (cue QRR exhaust). Moreover, this system will produce synthetic graphite of high purity for high value applications, which natural graphite doesn't suit for and require additional expensive purification. This is super exciting.

BCONTVentures wrote: Great post TOCKY8088, thanks for this.  And thanks for the information on Synthetic Graphite, very interesting (see link in TOCKY8088's post).

Today's news is exellent and this is a great strategy for PYR as it gets PyroGenesis exposure in the graphite production through the means of a royalty.  And since PYR has exclusivity over this reactor, it leaves the door open for potentially lucrative revenue streams through multiple reactors and cleints.

Some great points on Synthetic Graphite from @helloween (TOCKY8088 has a great link in his post on Synthetic Graphite as well):

@helloween Reading this about synthetic graphite, it looks like a challenge Pyrogenesis has already seen and succeeded. Since a plasma torches can reach 5000 to 10000 C, 3000 C is a walk in the park :

Introduction to Synthetic Graphite

2. A Brief History: Manufactured or synthetic graphite was discovered by accident during the late 1800’s by Edward Goodrich Acheson. While attempting to manufacture silicon carbide (Carborundum) in an electric furnace from a combination of silica and amorphous carbon, Mr. Acheson found that an unintentional reaction product, graphite crystals, was also formed. By refining the process and eliminating silica (SiO2) from the equation high purity, highly crystalline synthetic graphite could now be manufactured from certain (but not all) solid amorphous carbons. One of the furnace types still used to manufacture graphite, as well as the process method still bears Mr. Acheson’s name: the Acheson furnace and the Acheson process.

Natural graphite that forms in the earth’s crust forms at temperatures in the neighborhood of 750°C. At 750 °C on the earth’s surface virtually nothing will happen to carbon other than oxidation (burning). However, if in addition to heating to 750 °C you apply about 75,000 psi for 10 million years, graphite will form. Although 750 °C is an easily achieved temperature, the pressure and time requirements have obvious drawbacks when it comes to the practical manufacture of graphite. At ambient pressure the temperature required to create graphite from amorphous graphitizable carbon in a reasonable time period ranges from about 2300-3000 °C. This is a very high temperature, but it is required to provide the mobility needed by carbon atoms to rearrange themselves into a graphite crystal lattice.

1. Basic feed stocks: Although synthetic graphite can be manufactured from any number of precursor materials the primary material used to manufacture it in the United States is petroleum coke. As noted above only certain types of carbonaceous feeds are suitable for graphite production. Therefore the petroleum coke used for the synthetic graphite industry must be carefully specified to assure it is of the type that will ultimately result in high quality graphitic carbon.

9. Synthetic Graphite Production; The Acheson process is performed in an Acheson-type furnace. This furnace consists of a central chamber surrounded by external walls made of some refractory material such as firebrick. The chamber is roughly rectangular in outline. The top is open. The Acheson furnace is nothing more that a room without a ceiling, designed to keep in the heat generated by electrical resistance heating of the carbon charge. Since graphitization process temperatures are expected to reach 2800 °C or more it is of paramount importance that oxygen be excluded from the furnace. The total process time for graphitization using the Acheson method can be as long as 2-3 weeks. The heating cycle is typically rapid, with the graphitization temperature being reached in a few days. However, cool down time is slow and it can take up to two weeks until the furnace is cool enough to unload.

https://www.asbury.com/media/1225/syntheticgraphiteparti.pdf

TOCKY8008 wrote: Today's news release is another ICEBERG tip !!!

A NEW big business potential in the PYR plasma reactors field of expertise.

The NR is fairly short and general, laying out some good future prospects.

I think the pilot reactor will be finished before the end of the year given PYR experience.

What was not mentioned and I believe that it will be the product of the reactor is :

Synthetic Graphite

Happy reading.

TOCKY8008