 And welcome everybody back to the Independent Investor Channel for the final installment of a trip that I had to Aduro Clean Technologies, both the laboratory, and this is the content you've all been waiting for to actually put your eyes on the reactor as I did the R2 reactor. It's going to be awesome to see this thing actually put to the rigor of customer engagement. It's going to be awesome to monitor the progress and really see this story continue to evolve. It was a really wonderful firsthand experience for me and to convey that and pay that forward with the big thanks of Anil Javoir, the chief scientist with Aduro Clean Technologies, and the entire Aduro team. I tell you what, it wouldn't have happened without them and it makes me extremely excited to be able to pay forward this firsthand account of my site visit and hopefully we were able to capture not only the equipment, the firsthand boots on the ground perspective on what Aduro is working on currently, what they've got planned in the short term, and what we can kind of expect here as the coming catalyst really start to unfold for Aduro. Aduro is really right there at the top of the discussion with combating the plastic problem across the globe. There are multi-level initiatives going on right now, both with incentives, mandates, as well as putting this topic of plastic pollution in the limelight and looking to tackle this problem to fold both from an education perspective, as I think the general populace is somewhat naive on this, as well as putting some of the responsibility on our plastic producers as they are well aware, which is going to put companies like Aduro and a few others really in the limelight and allow these companies and their technology to be brought to bear as they look to scale up to commercial. As we kick off this interview, we're going to conclude in the laboratory as Anil talks a little bit about the team, the safety culture with Aduro Clean Technologies, some of the investments in training and safety initiatives with their team. So let's just jump right into it and at the end of the video, we're going to jump over to the R2 and the tutorial of the reactor that we want to see that tutorial on. So let's jump in and see what Aduro Clean Technologies and the chief scientist Anil Javar have to say about the safety culture and the training that's gone into the Aduro team. So Aduro operates with the safety as the top priority and it invests a lot of money on it, building its team and the improvement of the team members. Like we recently spent, trained all our employees on Swagelok components, like we got them Swagelok training so that they can understand the pressure, temperature, relationship for the tubes, fittings they are using. We also got them trained on safety and CPR first aid. So Aduro does a lot of investment on updating the team members. We also support if they need to take any professional courses or education, we do. So Aduro like what we are looking is not cutting corners, right? Like we are looking really on investing on the people because Aduro is nothing without the people, right? Like we need our team and right now what we got is a really passionate and dedicated team. So they are passionate and dedicated towards the company and we provide them all the support we can by providing whatever they need, education, updating their skills. And as I worked through this final stage of the interview here, Anil really wanted to talk about the investments in the team and what some of those investments looked like through the training initiatives and really the give back and understanding the team concept at Aduro. He really wanted to emphasize that it was a fun place to work and that was conveyed also by Anil's colleague as well who joined us during the interview and it was very, very apparent top down that there was not a separation between management and the laboratory and the goings on in the study and down in Texas and the initiatives that are happening abroad and with Western University it struck me as being a collaborative effort on this project which probably speaks to why they've been able to accelerate their efforts so quickly thus far. Yeah, so we actually like at Aduro really invest on our team members, right? We see that if they have better skills and we upgrade them, it's in the best interest of the company and as Neeta said, safety is the top priority at Aduro. What we say is like if you can't do a thing safely, don't do it like we are not going to do it. So what we are doing in terms of safety is like we do have safety policies which we are working and developing in collaboration with industry experts and what have been followed in the petroleum industry. Apart from that, what we are doing is we are not just going for minimum requirements kind of thing like we may saw other things we are trying to put more effort and getting the teams trained on different safety aspect like by providing them understanding with the safety experts, providing them training on first aid CPR, learning about safety and other aspects of the career as well. And I asked an interesting question to shift gears a little bit. I think sometimes and I've listened to most of the Q&A that have been posed especially to Ofer Vikas and to Mena Bashay and a lot of it has to do with angst amongst investors, interested parties in Aduro. And Aduro always comes over the top and kind of says, look, we want to see this thing get to market just as soon as possible, but we will not rush the process. And I wanted to nulse insights on this. I asked him, you know, I said, does Aduro feel rushed to the process? And I wanted to get his perspective as well. I think we can all agree that, you know, global tensions are tight. Financial markets are volatile. Financial institutions have been volatile as of late. And I wanted to get his pulse on whether or not they feel at all that they need to rush this technology to market. And I think you'll be interested to hear what Anil has to say on that particular comment. I would say Aduro is not rushed to develop the technology. I would say rather than process, I would say it's a journey. So what we are working on is like try to identify all the potential problems we could like in terms of handling material, what are the pre and post treatment steps required. So we are working diligently to make all that steps understand what we need for them, how to address that in our reactor system. So basically we are taking and developing the technology at our own pace. We are not rushed by the market or the pressure of the people, I would say. And what we are doing here is looking carefully each and every step and we are taking what we call as the limited baby steps to scale the technology right from a laboratory to a continuous scale to actually the demonstration and commercial scale. And in terms of supply chain, like yes, we do get affected by some of the supply chains because our continuous reactor system, which was supposed to be up and running like quite a while ago, we got delayed because it took like really long time to get each and every step stuff like even the equipments like whatever we got promised from the companies to get the equipment date, we never got at that date, right? It got pushed claiming supply chain issues and all those things. And the most interesting question that I was able to pose as we close down the laboratory portion of the Aduro Clean Technology site visit was I asked him, and this was a personal question of mine and I asked it on behalf of all of the would be followers of the Aduro story. I asked him, I said, please, if you could just imagine where you see Aduro in five to 10 years, where it would be that he would expect to see the company into the future, what place would they hold in bringing this technology to bear? What position would they hold? Where does he see Aduro as far as in the industry would they be an industry leader? Would the technology be deployed? Would they be at mass scale? All that type of thing. So take a listen carefully on what Anil said when I posed the question, where do you see Aduro in five to 10 years from now? So in terms of 10 years, I would say I could see Aduro as a leading technology provider in one of the plastic recycling space. And also it could foreign what we call as I told you, Aduro is a platform technology. So we do have technology for heavy oil upgrading and renewable fuels. So I see like Aduro foreign in all these areas and becoming a leading technology provider and addressing the problem what we are facing with specialty plastic. So we switched over to the laboratory, excuse me, to the site where the R2 was constructed. There is a little bit of background noise. So I do apologize. This was, you know, me filming this and asking the questions at the same time. So I want to thank Anil because under the conditions it was pretty pretty amazing for him to run through this tutorial for your viewing pleasure. It was amazing to hear what he had to say. You're going to want to listen to this, watch it a couple of times because the responses that I got with regard to the kickoff question and having him walk through the capabilities of the R2, I think you'll find will prove extremely valuable in understanding a lot more holistically the Aduro clean technology story as it pertains to the R2 in its final stages and bringing the R2 to the customer engagement piece to this evolution as the story unfolds. Yeah, so the system is currently successfully installed our test facility. What we have done is it's mechanically and electrically complete. We already got the TSA registration for the system for mechanical integrity. Right now what we are doing is final troubleshooting of all the electrical components so that we can get what we call as electrical safety approvals. We are just troubleshooting and making sure like every component which is installed is working properly. All the heat trace are working as intended and checking controls, all the safety system so that we can have when the unit is operational it's safe to operate and operate as designed. What we have in this system is there are two feed tanks. One is for introducing water and other our chemicals. They are pumped through a same pump which is a high pressure pump. It feeds the reactor system and here what we have is an extruder. We are using this extruder as a pump to push our plastic into the reactor system. We can load the material through this auger into that hopper and basically they are melt fed into the reactor using this extruder as a pump. So we push the polyethylene or polypropylene or any other plastics material into the reactor. We co-mix it with our water and other feed chemicals and basically in the reactor system they are mixed. We have a mixing, we can control the mixing, we can control temperature and pressure inside the reactor. They are heated to a desired conditions and we adjust the flow rate to maintain what we call as a space time and once the reaction is processed we get the product flowing from the bottom. We control the pressure using this back pressure regulator so we can set the pressure whatever is desired for the process and once the temperature and pressure is reached and we get the conversion the product flows through this back pressure regulator into twin condensing system where we are able to collect different fractions of the product, water, everything and the non-condensable leaves from the top of the reactor system. We measure the flow rates of that and what we do is we exhaust the non-condensable gases outside. So this is a very modular and flexible unit what we have designed. So this unit is designed to operate at relatively low flow rate as low as 200 grams per hour to 5 kilograms per hour. It can operate under those conditions. We can also change what we call as the ratios of the amount of material we are feeding in water and other chemicals. We can control the temperatures like we can change temperatures all the way from like 100 degree Celsius to 500 degree Celsius. We can maintain the pressures all the way from like ambient to 4000 psi and what we have done is we made this system so flexible like if we need to change any components we can do it because we are what we are using is like a switch lock type of connections which compression connection so we can just mod it modularly remove and update the systems as needed. That's correct. It's not just converting them right like because most of the people can convert or most companies can convert anything into some product but really the trick is converting them into an usable product like what's the value we are creating out of it right? It's not just creating a mixed bag of stuff but creating a product which is highly usable. I quite simply had to double down and ask Anil if what we were looking at here with the R2 was done and he assured that at the time of filming this video it's taken me a couple of weeks actually to draw off the renderings from the site visit but they were awaiting electrical certification and my understanding is that that has been completed and we are just awaiting the relocation to actually get it to its final location where the R2 will be put into the rigor of showcasing the hydrochemical technology to would-be customers and to showcase the technology first hand for those would-be customers through their customer engagement program. Yeah so what you see here it's a complete unit so we already received what we call is the mechanical certifications all the electrical components and control systems are in place what we are doing is we are just doing a final checks of like all electrical components working or not working and basically so that we have a complete safe system to operate and what we are waiting on is like just receiving electrical safety certification which we expect to happen very soon. As I was looking at the unit I was interested in some of the safety protocols some of the hazardous operations if any that had been taken into consideration in building the R2 and this is what Enil offered in response to that question. And while we are doing the safety installation and checking all this we also got our getting our operational team ready so we have all the SOPs standard operating procedures ready we have trained the team on how to operate the system how to troubleshoot it we also got them trained in safety all other things so that we have the team ready as when we have the unit ready to go. Yeah I would say like given the scale of this reactor we did not need it to do HAZOP but we went ahead and invested in doing in HAZOP so that we can kind of simulate and assess the scenarios what could possibly go wrong and how to address it and and even on the unit we had added multiple layers of safety so for example in this reactor system what we have is we have a rupture disk which will blow off if the pressure goes beyond the set limit but not only that we also have a safety relief valve we also have an automated pressure control like basically we have a pressure sensor monitoring the pressure of the reactor and you can set a safety limit and if it hits that pressure point it's going to shut down the power to the system so what we have done is just not focusing on minimum safety but we we did like a layers of safety so that we can make sure like our team and the unit and the environment is safe. So as I was looking at the unit I had a couple of questions and the simple question was how is R2 performed since it's been built and and staring down its final certification and have there been any problems with the unit and here's what Anil had to say about that. I would say not so much because we we really thought about designing this system right so we we kind of before even we started designing we envisioned like what could go wrong what are the possibilities how to have the system modify so for example we designed systems such that like if we were to take the product from the bottom of the reactor we can do it we can also take like a vapor phase product or we can take like a liquid product by using a jib tube so we we thought about all those things well in advance and we have incorporated that in our design. And for the second to last question this was one that I was the most interested in. I asked him can the learnings from R2 be used in the scale up? Okay obviously we're looking on the horizon for the potential to upscale this technology to take it to a commercial or pre-commercial state where we can see larger batches actually operate and in my mind I thought okay we're just going to have R3 as a big brother to R2 and it's interesting what Anil offers here with regard to the overbuilding and and the really thoughtful process and and dollars that were integrated in the R2 idea being there that they would overbuild R2 to understand the parameters of the chemistry and then building R3 would actually in some capacities be scaled back or tailored in the capacity that they need within the ranges that they're looking to work so the learnings that were actually garnered from R2 actually allowed them some cost cutting some cost saving initiatives when they do end up going to mass scale because they don't have to build it as robust as they did the R2 they can take those learnings and they can integrate those in the scaled up versions where some of that overbuilt learnings that they got from R2 will be actually unnecessary for R3 so I'll let you take a listen to what Anil said on this in one of the most fascinating portions of my site visit to Aduro Clean Technologies. I would say that whatever the learnings we are doing here they can definitely be used for larger system but I would not build a larger system to be as flexible as this one right like we will narrow down the process conditions we will bracket that so that we don't invest so much capital building a system which we are not going to use all the capabilities of right so really this is our playing test equipment I would say so we incorporated all the possible flexibility and gave us all the latitude so that we can test all different parameters and we are going to narrow down as we learn from this we will collect this data which will be used for designing of our next scale of a reactor. And I think the final question that I asked is how will R2 be utilized I think we all understand that it's going to be used for customer engagements but what what that looks like is yet to be seen okay. Aduro will release those those news releases as appropriate I will share those as they come across to my desk but I would ask the investing community to be patient with this. Aduro has the goods their chemistry works and it was doubled down on and solidified for me I hope that you were able to glean what I was able to take away from my site visit here but let's let Anil talk about where R2 will be utilized here when the unit is actually put in front of the customers and the technology is is able to be showcased in the presence of would-be customers. So so way we designed all these reactors they are on the skid so that we can move them as is without having to disassemble basically they could be put on a flatbed truck and move to different facility so our new facility of Aduro in London Ontario should be ready pretty soon but we didn't want to wait till then so that we have this units and team at least understand how to operate this unit so that we can make any necessary arrangement at the new facility and incorporate any additional things required. And on behalf of the independent investor channel I'd like to thank the Aduro Clean Technologies team the CEO Mr. Ofer Vicus as well as the chief scientist Mr. Anil Jouar who welcomed the independent investor team up there for the site visit couldn't have been any better than that hopefully you guys appreciated this three video chronicle if you missed the first two I will link those in the description below for you so you can go back and catch the entire site visit in its entirety. 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