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Minnova Corp. and Minnova Renewable Energy Announce Positive Velocimetry Test Results and Hydrogen Market Update
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 13, 2022) - Minnova Corp. (TSXV: MCI) (OTC Pink: AGRD...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Minnova Corp. and Minnova Renewable Energy Announce Positive Velocimetry Test Results and Hydrogen Market UpdateToronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 13, 2022) - Minnova Corp. (TSXV: MCI) (OTC Pink: AGRDF) (\"Minnova\" or the \"Company\"), is an evolving resource development company with an exciting green hydrogen and cleantech innovation strategy to compliment our development-stage PL Gold Mine restart plan.Positive Particle Velocimetry Test ResultsWe are pleased to announce positive particle tracking velocimetry results of the DUMA technology. The tests were conducted by University of L'Aquila (Italy) and support the development of our planned demonstration plant in Swan River, Manitoba (see press release MCI-MRE-Restructuring-and-Site-Selection-Announcement.pdf (minnovacorp.ca)) and other future commercial development sites in Europe and central America.The DUMA 3rd generation gasification design builds on existing fluidized bed gasification technology but incorporates patent pending design and operational features that enable high throughput to produce a high hydrogen content syngas. Two floor standing cold model units were built by DUMA at the beginning of 2022 to experiment different configurations and working parameters. Velocimetry tests analysed the trajectories of the bed particle images acquired with a high-speed and high-resolution camera and processed by software that uses pixel-by-pixel analysis with a preprocessing step of background subtraction and thresholding segmentation. This analysis enables our engineering team to reconstruct the velocity and distribution of the entrained biomass particles inside the bed reactor. Velocimetry test results were positive, indicating a biomass flow rate of the DUMA 3rd generation gasification system up to 375% higher than existing technology. This is a remarkable achievement and represents a truly significant advancement in fluidized bed gasification technology that can result in higher initial syngas hydrogen content (over 50% H2), lower green hydrogen production costs, smaller plant footprint and lower capital costs of the entire production plant.In addition to positive test results, we are pleased to announce that gasification test work has begun on selected corn residues from Romania and tropical fruit residues from Costa Rica. Gasification test work is being conducted a...