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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Rentech(RTK) - gas-to-liquids and cleaner fuel -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Terry Jackson who wrote (13585)	3/2/2000 3:05:00 PM
From: Howard Williams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14347

RNTK and SYNM process efficiencies.... Having spent a bit of time the past few days hashing over the relative efficiencies of GTL processes on SYNM's message boards, posting the following material here is appropriate. I believe these are objective, apples-to-apples comparisons. SYNM data came from SYNM supporters and RNTK data came from RNTK on Thursday, March 1. These are for situations where a prospective natural gas fed GTL plant is viewed as a black box. Natural gas comes in one end and barrels of GTL products go out the other end. Inside the boxes, the different processes utilize tailgases as appropriate to maximize the process efficiencies. The latter is a complicated story but the key factors from a buyer's standpoint are the gas coming in and the GTL products going out, assuming equal capex and opex. Thermal efficiency: This is the percent of the incoming natural gas combustion energy content that is still there in the outgoing barrels of GTL products. SYNM.........49% to 66% depending on plant designs RNTK...........68% Carbon efficiency: This is the percent of the incoming natural gas carbon content that is still there in the outgoing barrels of GTL products. SYNM..........76% RNTK............over 85% In both cases, higher percentages are better. There's no doubt these efficiency numbers are a major reason for RNTK's excellent prospects. The ability of RNTK's F-T to handle widely (even wildly) diverse syngas compositions helps a lot too.