AgriTec Technology

Our primary business is to develop and commercialize proprietary technology utilizing agricultural wastes (biomass) to produce high value specialty chemicals. A multitude of specialty and industrial applications for these products include food processing, water and air purification, semiconductor fabrication, and manufacture of detergents, pulp and paper, pigments, rubber and plastics, food and health care products, industrial catalysts and desiccants.  Management believes there are enormous opportunities across global markets for the application of AgriTec's technology, not only in the United States but across the world.

The process is surprisingly simple.  Rice hull ash is reacted with hydrous sodium hydroxide in a water solution at relatively low temperatures (less than 120 degrees Celsius) and low pressures (less than 50 psig) to produce a black sodium silicate.  The carbon is then separated from the sodium silicate solution through a filtering and washing process.

The advantages of AgriTec’s patented processing technology and products include:

• Renewable raw materials.

• Lower capital expenditures than current industry processes, which require vessels and other equipment to withstand temperatures of 2,000 to 2,600 ^OF to make sodium silicate from sand and soda ash and additional equipment to remove impurities.

• Lower facility maintenance costs and extended facility life because of reduced corrosion at lower temperature and pressure.

• Lower operating costs because of greatly reduced energy requirements and elimination of an additional process for removing impurities.

• Environmentally friendly features:

  • Constructive uses of a bulky waste that otherwise must be disposed of in a landfill.

  • Greatly-reduced process energy requirements.

  • No greenhouse gas emissions.     

  • Positive end product uses such as water and beverage purification products.

• Higher product purities and qualities than existing commercial products.