For biochar, activated carbon and fertiliser manufacturers
If you run pyrolysis for biochar or activated carbon, you already produce a liquid fraction alongside the char. Most plants flare it, treat it as waste, or move it at commodity prices.
Our technology converts that liquid into organic acids and reducing agents with a market of their own: metal recovery reagents for the mining and recycling sector, and controlled-release coatings for fertiliser manufacture.
It runs on the plant you already have. Same feedstock, same furnace, one more product line off the back of it. Today your return rests on the char price and the carbon credit price, both markets you do not control. The reagent stream is sold into industrial chemistry and priced accordingly, and for many plants it can be worth more than the char it comes with.
Without Xylogic
With Xylogic
Controlled thermal conversion of wood and agricultural residue yields a liquid rich in acetic and other organic acids, plus phenolic reducing agents.
Adjusting the conversion shifts that balance, which is what lets one feedstock serve both metal recovery and controlled-release fertiliser.
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Forestry and agricultural residue that would otherwise be burnt or landfilled.
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Controlled thermal conversion, tuned to favour the organic acids we want.
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XyloLix for metal recovery, XyloPhos for controlled-release fertiliser.
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Ore bodies, spent batteries, solar panels, treated timber, soil.
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Breaks down after use instead of persisting in soil and waterways.
Forestry and agricultural residue, converted once and tuned twice.
Effectively complete lithium and manganese recovery, and over 85% of cobalt, in thirty minutes at 70 °C.
Applied across critical metal ore extraction, spent battery recycling, end-of-life solar panels and copper-chrome-arsenate treated timber. This is the product your reagent stream is sold into.
30 minutes · 70 °C · solid-to-liquid ratio 20 g/L. Comparable to sulphuric acid and ahead of a sulphuric/oxalic blend under identical conditions.
| Metal | Recovered (%) |
|---|---|
| Lithium | 100 |
| Manganese | 100 |
| Cobalt | at least 85 |
For fertiliser manufacturers: a biodegradable, water-soluble coating that breaks down in soil and acts as a chelating agent on the calcium and magnesium already present.
Phosphorus is released gradually instead of locking into insoluble forms, which keeps it available to the plant and out of runoff.
In laboratory testing it made 322 mg of phosphorus available per kg of soil, against 29 mg/kg untreated. Sulphuric acid reached 146 mg/kg, under half, and brings handling and soil hazards that XyloPhos does not.
Sulphuric acid reaches under half the availability, and is hazardous to handle and to the soil it goes into.
| Treatment | Phosphorus (mg/kg) |
|---|---|
| XyloPhos | 322 |
| Sulphuric acid | 146 |
| Control | 29 |
