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FASC stock is under 5 cents and, IMO, on the verge of big things. It's taken 8+ years of product improvement to get here...I predict the time is now. 10 years later from when the company got started a lot has changed, inluding energy prices, fertilizer prices, a green mindset of the people and goverment, and technological advancements in terms of biofuel production.
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First American Scientific Corporation manufactures the KDS Micronex™ patented mechanical grinder-dryer
» short for Kinetic Disintegration System, the KDS efficiently and economically processes a wide variety of raw materials and wastes into fine, dry powders
e KDS Micronex™ simplifies on-site grinding and drying operations into a single, compact and easy-to-operate system
• creating high-quality, dry, virtually pathogen-free powders that have value as industrial feedstocks, fuels, fertilizers and animal feeds • reducing disposal and handling costs of and long-term liability from materials that were previously non-recyclable
First American Scientific Corporation is the owner/manufacturer of the patented KDS Micronex, a materials reduction machine that is used globally in biomass preparation. Biomass materials must first be preprocessed prior to being used to generate power, produce steam or create biofuel.
First American Scientific Corp (FASC - OTCBB) announces receipt of order for the sale of KDS System to Daeyun Enterprise Ltd. in Pusan, South Korea
VANCOUVER, July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - FASC is pleased to announce the sale of a Model S-4 KDS machine to be used for processing and extracting high grade calcium from oyster shells gathered off the southern coast of South Korea. According to Mr. Nichols, "our clients have been working with us on this project diligently for over 2 years, and now report that they have secured the necessary project financing to complete the processing plant. Funding will be in place by the end of July 2008 and the plant is expected to be operational by the end of October 2008. Our alliance with our Korean colleagues is finally beginning to pay off. This will be the third KDS system to be installed in Korea, and the first of several for this application."
The Korean group is also in the final planning phase of a full scale municipal waste processing site. Please see our new web-site for further details www.fasc.net
Certain information and statements included in this release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Federal Private Securities Litigation Reform Act.
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The Minnesota Valley Producers (MnVAP) and biomass pelletizing initiatives
Minnesota Valley Producers (MnVAP) is a Minnesota farmer-owned cooperative working with alfalfa processing and marketing14. The association has processed both alfalfa and grasses with an older line of technology and has produced alfalfa leaf pellets to be shipped to feed mills around the United States to be used as livestock feed15. Alfalfa, a nonnative perennial species, offers many conservation benefits such as preventing soil erosion and enhancing soil and water quality. It also has great economic benefits, as alfalfa returns in southwest Minnesota have topped returns on corn and soybeans. MnVAP is now looking to produce biomass fuel pellets as a renewable energy source and has received a $1 million renewable-energy grant from the Xcel Energy Renewable Development Fund to test the KDS technology for grinding and drying high moisture agricultural fibers, such as wood, native grasses and crop residues.
What types of benefits could the KDS technology offer for biomass processing?
Concerns with biomass production and usage have prompted MnVAP to test a biomass processing method known as a kinetic disintegration system or KDS that would begin to answer the question of how we can process bulk biomass to a form that can be shipped, stored, and used for energy. According to Keith Poier, Montevideo, MN farmer and MnVAP chair, alfalfa is one of the more difficult materials to process. It is bulky, and many bioenergy facilities have already had bulk storage issues. Mr. Poier explains that the MnVAP has a four phase plan for their fuel pellets initiative, and have prioritized the issue of dealing
with the densification, transportation, and storage of biomass. The KDS technology would improve the energy efficiency of the pelletizing method by minimizing the energy costs to actually compress the biomass bales into a pellet. According to Poier, the KDS would combine energy-intensive grinding and drying steps. In the KDS, an initial shredder would still be necessary, but a spinning process would then take out the moisture from the biomass and produce heat which would dry the rest of the material, eliminating the need for a drier. Poier explained that preliminary theory estimates that the technology would save on 35-40% of power usage, greatly lowering the costs for densifying biomass material.
How can MnVAP alfalfa pelletizing be used as a relevant model for native grass processing for energy?
Poier explains that if MnVAP can lower the cost of pelletizing their primary feedstock, alfalfa, that it should follow that it will drop on different biomasses and their blends. Poier elaborates that the plan is to test sixteen different types of biomass, individually and in blends, to determine burn ability. They will include prairie grasses in their testing, in hopes of selecting appropriate varieties for the KDS technology.
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