 So, in part two of the Aduro site visit, we're going to finalize our tour of the Aduro Lab. And I think you'll find some of the explanation by the Chief Scientist, Mr. Anil Jawaar, to be very insightful. I want you guys to sit back and enjoy, okay? This consumption of this content is made possible by the fact that I actually made the site trip on my own dime to provide this insight because I feel like all too often now people who are investing in the stock market are doing so based on what they see in way of price fluctuations in the stock and that is it and coupled with a stock market now that is providing absolutely zero reciprocation for what companies are doing on the inside. I found it prudent to take you to the inside and provide you those first hand accounts of what's going on in the inside because I think that is the only thing that is important. We will encounter more conducive markets at some point in the future, my friends. When that is, I don't have any idea, but positions will be built now to capitalize down the line and those companies that have been discredited and set to the side here while the market figure outs where they want to price companies like this that are in the early stages of their inception will absolutely accelerate in the catch-up stage of the market and people will realize that companies like Aduro and some few others have been overlooked throughout the course of volatile markets and they have been brutal, my friends, but with that I'm going to kick you in here and we're going to provide you a continued tour of the laboratory and the insights from Anil Javar. Before we get started, I again would like to extend my gratitude to the entire Aduro Clean Technologies team. What an A-plus outfit and if by watching this series of my site visit, you're not strengthened and fortified in your conviction on Aduro Clean Technologies, no problem. The intent here is to provide you insights and allow you to make a much more educated decision based on your investing thesis and your opportunity as it may lie in the future with Aduro Clean Technologies. Let's get started. You bring the material, you do what we call distillation and select different products. You take the residue, subject it to more what we call as vacuum distillation so that you recover further products and anything which is residue which is called vacuum top bitumen. Sometimes it's just used for road payment or sometimes some refineries take that and upgrade it further using catalytic crackers, cookers, all that to recover more products and same thing I see with the chemical recycling of the plastic. What I see is it's going to be a combination of both mechanical and chemical recycling for different plastics and I see similar to refinery so basically you will get a mixed plastic, maybe it's post-consumer, post-industrial where they can separate them like a distillation column so we can get different streams. The streams which are mechanically recycled or could be used as is like could be used for the purposes. Any residue which is not upgradable we can subject it to different what we call as chemical recycling technologies. And I see Aduro's technology has much more advantage because we can handle really vast variety of feedstock we can accept moisture and other contaminants and I was working there so that's how I came in communication with Offer and Mark and joined Aduro to take over. So what we did at Western was we had like different programs and funding from government agencies like NSERC, BioFuel Network and basically we used those resources to develop the technology. So at Western what we had was we had the students and academia and industry partnership working towards the development of this process reactors which are like small micro reactors we can load up different materials and for a given temperature conditions we can remove the reactors at different time we can check different catalysts, different reactants, different agents so we can do all that this way we expedite our process like instead of doing like one run a day in a batch reactor system we can do 20 runs per day or even more. So once we get that what we look at is whether the chemistry is happening or not right like we are not really looking at like what's the yield or what's the product kind of thing here what we look at is like okay we put this material it's not soluble in toluene or other materials after the reaction we see whether it's solubilizes or not. So that's how we check so this is yes or no question and once we get some positive direction we scale it up in a slightly larger reactor which is about 30 ml or so and in this we again load the material here we try to recover the product and look at it what we got how much was the conversion and once we are satisfied with the yield and the product quality we move up into 500 ml and 1000 liter reactor batch continuous tank autoclave reactor system this reactor is capable of operating like relatively like at 500 degree Celsius and 5000 psi but we do operate at milder conditions. So here what we do is again this is a batch system we load up all the materials our catalyst and biobased reducing equivalent substrate in the system run the chemistry for the desired time and we maintain different temperature so once the process is done we basically shut down recover the product and analyze it further what we do you know like in terms of process like we have developed a quick and dirty method for the product recovery right so if you know most of the polymers we take polyethylene polypropylene they are not soluble in solvents like toluene or hexanes so basically we know that they are not so once we do the reaction mechanism we use those solvents and recover the products which are soluble in them and whatever is residue left we know that it is the unconverted material or maybe some some amount of a carbonaceous material right so we do all that analysis on all the product streams we get like we look at gas stream liquid stream and solid stream like so where we actually add the solvent to the material and sonicate it so that we can recover most of the possible material even for solids we add solvents and sonicate for at least 30 minutes or more so that we know like we are not leaving any residual liquid product which could be the solvent or the residue from that using what we call is centrifuge so once we are done here we evaporate the solvent so the solvent is separated from the product using what we call is rota evaporator leave like some of the residual products here basically in the centrifuge so that any residual solvent is evaporated and we will let the dry and we will continuously monitor what we call is the weight change and when we see there is no significant weight change we we kind of know that's our product or the residue solids kind of thing which is about seven members in the research and then we have a chief technological officer Marcus Trickstratt who is in Houston so he is the think tank I would say he and I collaborate and then there is another colleague of mine Birind Radhikari so we three are like kind of go hand in hand so they both are from the chemistry background and myself I'm from the process engineering side so they envision and look at the chemistry part of it and I look at making the process on what we call is our process as well as help them understand the basics of the chemical recycling and see how they can how can they advance in their in their career kind of thing right so there are two advantages we get students to train on the aduro process but also understand like what is important for industry academia collaboration like how how we can advance in technology which is really developed in a lab from bench scale all the way to the commercial scale so they get an experience on that but apart from that as a part of our funding agreement they also get an opportunity to publish the data they are generating right aduro got all the patent rights we own the technology but they got the rights to publish and use as their thesis one of the key impasses that I think it's important for anybody who follows the aduro story to understand is this segment right here when I talk about the importance of collaboration within the industry we are defining a new normal going forward and we are coupling these technologies that are being quickly developed if not discovered but bringing through the different stages of of potential and anil talks about the importance of how accelerated the technology can get when you couple that with the collaboration of of industry partners as well as other plastic recycling companies and this goes back to the idea that aduro is not going to be the lone horse in this fight the problem in the plastic problem globally is too big for a company like aduro or any of the others that are out there trying to bring forward technology aimed at solving the plastic problem so let's see what anil talks about here when I ask him about the importance of collaboration within the industry so collaborative effort is really important right aduro being a small company we can leverage the manpower we have like if the actual big industry was to spend on this kind of research they will have to spend like millions of dollars whereas aduro could do it really economically but what we also need is the support from big industries because they got expertise in process design and and operations kind of thing whereas what we got is we know the chemistry we know the process so here we can develop the process and once we develop the process they can take it and bring it to more like operational and commercial realities I think collaborative effort is really important to address this plastic challenge or maintain a status quo I would say because you know our life without plastic is not possible like now we got so much addicted to it like everybody what we are doing is we use anything you touch like has some kind of polymers or plastic on that you know I think something that plagues our society now is lack of education in understanding that decades of naive behavior in how we go through our consumables and and not truly understanding even close the magnitude of impact that we're making and I ask anil in this segment I just asked him carp launch is plastic going away right and I think it's a deeper understanding to understanding how important plastic is but also how equally damaging plastic can be if it's not properly dealt with and I think you know the real the real value here in aduro is being able to come right over the top and augment a circular perspective in introducing what would typically be discredited and discarded based on the cost and the lack of technology and chemistry behind the ability to recycle over 80 percent of those plastics that by nature of its molecular compound and makeup and or in most cases the the problem with contamination within the plastic and so it gets discarded only to be shuffled under the surface and and put into the landfills and and released to the oceans and the mandates are gonna are gonna look to crimp down on that and put more of the responsibility on the big industry so let's listen to what anil offers when I ask him about whether or not he thinks plastics are going away so so that's what is happening right if you look at most of the technologies coming into market like most of them are now based on pyrolysis so they have done something within their own limits now they're collaborating with big refineries or big industries actually to take it from what we call is lab scale or pilot scale to the demo and one of the most important takeaways in this segment happened during the entire site visit that I had in aduro when I think when we talk about the plastic problem most people agree that it's out of control or they want to do their part and you know they feel like the world should be doing more and that the need for these technologies are ever so present in today's society what I think people truly don't understand is that when plastic enters into the recycle bin think about your tide and detergent bottles okay think about the amount of chemical and detergent contaminant that's left residual in the bottle as well as the labels and the adhesive that is used to attach that to the plastic bottle so in this segment and he'll kind of breaks down the importance of how aduro can deal with these contaminant products contaminated products and deal with them in a way that can render a usable product on the back end post-process and I I found this to be absolutely a game changer for me when I was listening to Anil's interpretation and the reality that the the the pre-processing that could potentially go in to remove labels and to pre-clean contaminated plastics going in may also lend itself futile in those efforts in that the cost to do that would be a cost prohibitive in other words we would be back to square one in making decisions not to recycle plastic right because the economics just don't weigh so it it really adds to the aduro's story in that if the pre-processing can be left to a minimal and the ability of the technology and the chemistry to actually deal with contaminated plastics during the process it lends itself that much more novel when we talk about how aduro stacks up against the remaining industry solutions that are out there and being brought to bear in the plastic recycling evolution and and also you have to understand like one important advantage right like even for plastic recycling like if you're not cleaning your ketchup bottles or food residue and if you're dumping in a recycle bin they're not they're not recycled completely because not most of the technologies or even mechanical recycling are capable of taking those material and recycling it right so it's a feel good like you may be thinking like you're doing good by adding it to the recycle bin but it's not unless you wash your bottles thoroughly and remove all the labels can you so for example if you have a food residue which is dried on the bottle and if you don't wash it and if you were to do a mechanical recycling like what happens is during the extrusion process it could actually have an impact on the product quality and and in case of let's say pyrolysis or other technologies like if you need to wash them or if you are just a product quality like basically when you are heating it like it's taking the molecule apart by thermal energy so when you have food residue or other contaminants they can create some byproducts which may not be suitable for the process so when dealing with contaminants and they'll in your opinion does it is it going to be necessary to have to prepare the plastics before they go into a reactor or is the technology going to be developed to actually handle those contaminants so I see like in some cases there will be preprocessing required especially for inorganic materials like glass metals or other things but in some process they may be what we call is a post processing required after the product to meet what the specifications of the end user is I would say what will happen is I see a technology which can handle most of the contaminants will win because it's not like completely economical to do an extensive preprocessing or post processing. So there's a delicate balance of over preparing putting those dollars to work and preparing it to go into a reactor. Exactly it may not even make sense right like you may be investing so much money on preprocessing like then at the end like making it bringing it to the market like the product may not be even worth what you have already put the money in the processing it. And that'll wrap it up for part two you guys are going to want to stay tuned here as I kick over and do a walkthrough of the R2 reactor that it's complete it is mechanically and electrically complete. This will be the unit that will be used for customer engagement to demonstrate the continuous flow process I think in and of itself the value created by the step from the batch process to the R2 reactor and where we are now is absolutely leaps and bounds. I think that OferVicus has been very very steadfast in ensuring that the share owners and those who follow a duro story understand how monumental this stage is. I know it's easy to talk about you know when is this going to happen and when is that going to happen and Mayna does a really good job of explaining that this is going to be a process that yes everybody would like to see happen as soon as possible but the process has to be allowed to take fold and in some cases I believe will help just organically accelerate the duro story along. However I do get a sense that this company wants to move methodically in my premonition and my insights and my evaluation of the company this is a company that operates on a premise that they have the goods and that there is no reason to rush to to market there is no rush to get information out prematurely. There is absolutely a deliberative effort to put forward information when available and when appropriate and I expect nothing less from this company because I too also believe that they do have the goods and in due time a company like this that seemingly is trading as if nobody knows about it will shortly change and my friends in this time now the calm before the storm I would consider it to be absolutely a time where this company is still very much under the radar in development for 10 years plus and it is invaluable for people with a duro closely related to a duro like Anil to come on and share his insights direct with an audience and give an idea of where the company has come from in 10 years of development. I do expect the story to accelerate but we will need to be patient on this and we will report out on those catalysts and development as they happen. We will report out on the performance of R2. I think it's going to be invaluable in showcasing for the number of interested parties in the a duro clean technologies and allowing R2 to showcase the technology as it was meant and developed in the continuous flow process and we will continue to report out on those so stay tuned for the final installment of the walkthrough of the R2 reactor. I'm super super excited to be providing this as a direct insight to the a duro clean technologies team their process and the technology that they are looking to bring to bear. Guys leave your comments at the bottom of the video subscribe to the channel if you enjoy content like this and share the message with anybody out there that is interested in covering the plastic recycling space heavy oil upgrading as well as some of the other multiple projects that a duro is working on bring them on to the channel. We cover the story intimately and we're glad to do so as the story evolves over time. 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