Clean Energy Solutions

Waste feedstocks into
refinery-ready fuel.

OxoHydro 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.

OxoHydro: Process Overview
Feedstock
Pyrolysis & HTL oils
forestry · tire · waste
OxoHydro
Single reactor
catalytic upgrade
Output
Refinery-miscible
upgraded oil
✓ Water & oxygen tolerant ✓ No sulfide activation ✓ Integrated H₂ generation ✓ Decentralized deployment
Catalyst properties No pre-treatment needed System advantages
The challenge

Renewable fuels didn't fail on supply. They failed on integration.

Refineries can't process bio-oils as-is. Most renewable oil producers have nowhere to sell.

Conventional catalysts fail fast on bio-oils Sulfide-based catalysts are poisoned by the oxygen and water in bio-oils. They degrade faster, need replacing more often, and the economics fall apart quickly.
Dewatering loses the carbon you paid for Feedstocks can be 50% water. Removing it before processing means throwing away biogenic carbon before you've done anything useful with it.
External hydrogen kills the business case Traditional hydrotreating needs external H₂. That means either buying it (expensive), building a reformer (capital-intensive), or depending on natural gas.
The difference, in numbers
<1%
Oxygen content in output, down from feedstocks with >50% oxygen input
30%
Reduction in operational costs vs. conventional hydrotreating, with no external hydrogen
75%
Refinery-ready fuel components produced from a single reactor pass
How it works

Three things conventional catalysts can't do. Ours can.

The OxoHydro catalyst is built on α-Mo₂C, a non-sulfide, water-tolerant active phase that generates hydrogen from the feedstock itself. Most catalysts break down where ours starts working.

01

Tolerates water and oxygen

Renewable feedstocks are wet and oxygen-rich. Most catalysts deactivate in those conditions within hours. Ours doesn't. No dewatering or pretreatment means you keep the biogenic carbon instead of losing it before the reaction even starts.

Stable with 50%+ water content
02

No sulfide activation needed

Conventional catalysts need sulfiding agents to activate, which produces H₂S and rules out most bio-based feeds. Our catalyst needs none of that. No H₂S, no amine scrubber, no extra unit operations.

No H₂S. No amine plants.
03

Integrated hydrogen generation

OxoHydro generates its own hydrogen from the feedstock gases. It runs on wet, variable feeds without a reformer or a gas pipeline. No external H₂, no dependency on natural gas.

No external H₂ supply needed
Validated performance

Tested on feedstocks conventional catalysts can't handle.

Thousands of hours across eight feedstock types. The numbers below are measured outputs, not projections.

Hydrothermal Liquefaction

HTL Oil: Forestry Waste

Among the highest-TAN feedstocks we've run. OxoHydro eliminated total acidity and cut oxygen from 11.3% to 2.4%, with no catalyst deactivation over the full 1,896 hours.

Measured output
0
TAN (mg KOH/g)
2.4%
Oxygen in output
0
Sulfur added
Hydrothermal Liquefaction

HTL Oil: Dairy / DAF Sludge

Dairy waste HTL arrives dense, high in nitrogen, and loaded with compounds that typically poison a catalyst fast. OxoHydro brought TAN, sulfur, and oxygen all to zero in 144 hours.

Measured output
0
TAN
0
Oxygen
0
Sulfur
Fast Pyrolysis

Pyrolysis Oil: Waste Tires

Waste tire oil is high in sulfur and hard to process cleanly. OxoHydro removed over 80% of it with stable operation across all 480 hours, no special handling required.

Measured output
>80%
Sulfur removal
Stable
Catalyst performance
Fast Pyrolysis

Bio-Oil: Sawdust / Forestry Biomass

With 25% water and 51% oxygen, this feedstock would kill a conventional sulfide catalyst on contact. OxoHydro converted it to a refinery-miscible oil with zero TAN and 0.95 g/ml density, ready for SAF or renewable diesel production.

Measured output
2.7%
Oxygen in output
0
TAN
0.95
Density g/ml

Also validated on municipal biosolids, aqueous sugar syrups, and co-processing of renewable + fossil feedstocks.

Peer-reviewed science

The catalyst is ours. The proof is in the runtime.

The α-Mo₂C catalyst powering OxoHydro was developed and scaled at our Calgary facility. We don't publish the full formulation. What we do publish: 1,896 continuous operating hours across 8 feedstocks. The Science paper validates the underlying low-temperature chemistry. The runtime validates everything else.

Read the tech brief
Nanocatalysts for selective CO₂ conversion.
Pereira-Almao et al. Independent validation of the cubic-phase α-Mo₂C catalyst platform, originally developed at NanosTech, for low-temperature catalytic activity and rWGS.
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