New Innovative Insurance Instruments Will Accelerate Project Development And Deployment For TRI Biorefineries

BALTIMORE, Jan. 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- ThermoChem Recovery International, Inc. (TRI), the Baltimore-based gasification technology company at the forefront of commercializing biorefineries, is pleased to announce that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with New Energy Risk (NER) that can help accelerate project development, increase profitability, and provide certainty of execution. 

After completing due diligence on TRI's suite of biorefinery-enabling technologies, NER, a leading provider of performance risk solutions for breakthrough technologies and affiliate of global insurance company, AXA XL, is prepared to provide various insurance solutions to biorefinery owners and projects which utilize TRI's equipment and technology. 

TRI has named New Energy Risk and AXA XL as its preferred supplier of technology performance insurance for TRI customers and projects.

"With NER taking the lead on providing solid insurance options to owners using our technology, we have eliminated a key obstacle to making commercial-scale biorefineries profitable and replicable," said Dan Burciaga, President and CEO of TRI. "NER studied TRI's 20-year track record of accomplishments and recognized a great opportunity to help make our projects more bankable. This is a great development for us, and for the whole industry."

TRI is a leading provider of steam reforming gasification systems suitable for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), woody biomass, agricultural residues and other waste feedstocks. Its systems have been selected for and deployed on various commercial North American projects including the Fulcrum Bioenergy Project Sierra Biorefinery in Nevada and Norampac black liquor gasification, a division of Cascades Paper. Additionally, TRI's multi-feedstock, fully-integrated biorefinery in Durham, North Carolina has run for over 13,000 hours, successfully producing syngas that is particularly well-suited to generating Fischer-Tropsch liquids and upgrading to ASTM-certified fuels.

Burciaga said, "New Energy Risk understands this sector, and they understand our technology. What's more, they know the types and levels of risk mitigation our project owners and investors need in order to get these projects over the finish line and to get steel into the ground."

"Our business is in backing technologies with demonstrated reliability," said Jon Cozens, Chief Commercial Officer at New Energy Risk.  "We find the rigor to which TRI has developed and proven its technology to be one of the most thorough we've found, and over the last several years TRI has been associated with many of the highest quality projects New Energy Risk vetted.  We look forward to accelerating the deployment of the TRI technology and providing assurance to owners and investors that the TRI technology will perform."

About TRI

Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, TRI is a global leader in steam reforming, an ultra-clean and high-efficiency gasification technology well-suited to a range of biorefinery and power generation applications.  TRI's proprietary process converts cellulosic feedstocks (including post-sorted Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), bark, forest residuals, agricultural waste, energy crops and low rank coals) into a synthesis gas ("syngas") which can be converted into biofuels, biochemicals and power.  TRI partners with world-class technology and EPC providers and licenses its proprietary technologies —including feeder, gasification and gas clean-up systems —as well as provides specialized equipment and engineering services to the global renewable energy sector.

www.tri-inc.net/ 

About steam reforming gasification
Steam-reforming gasification is the first stage in the biomass-to-liquids process that converts woody biomass and other solid feedstocks into premium fuels. Gasifiers convert carbon-containing materials into carbon monoxide, hydrogen and carbon dioxide. This is achieved by reacting the material at medium temperatures (>700 °C), without combustion, with a controlled amount of oxygen and/or steam. The syngas is then cleaned and the carbon monoxide to hydrogen ratio adjusted if necessary to meet the specifications needed for input to chemical catalytic reactors, for example the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process.

http://tri-inc.net/steam-reforming-gasification/ 

About New Energy Risk

New Energy Risk is a provider of performance risk solutions for breakthrough technologies and pioneer in the development of large-scale technology performance insurance. The company was founded in 2010 to provide complex risk assessment and serve as an effective bridge between technology innovators and insurers. Since then, New Energy Risk has helped its customers gain over $1 billion in financing for renewable energy and new technology deployments. To learn more, visit www.newenergyrisk.com.

About AXA XL

AXA XL provides insurance and risk management products and services for mid-sized companies through to large multinationals, and reinsurance solutions to insurance companies globally. We partner with those who move the world forward. To learn more, visit www.axaxl.com

SOURCE ThermoChem Recovery International, Inc. (TRI)