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Bringing Power to the People
About Pyro Yield
We are a group of seasoned individuals from the engineering and scientific domains, we all share a common goal in that we look to bring our technology to the market to the benefit of all that share our vision for a cleaner better world.
Our Plan
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The next 10 months will be some of the most exciting and productive in the history of Pyro Yield as we embark on the last development phase of the Fast Pyrolysis Reactor. Everything we know will be focused on the new design. This design is the one we will market to the world and demonstrate exactly what it can do.
The end of March 2015 will see us with a final reactor build design, materials on order, sub-contractors, science partners and suppliers lined up, after which we will move to our new premises in Drumharvie.
Initial build phase has started with gas flow testing and activated carbon characterisation ongoing.
The beginning of February will see the start of a series of full production trials to determine variant combustion parameters, activated carbon production levels and overall energy balance and delivery.
In the last phase of the test program we will introduce a heat exchanger for the delivery of steam to a small Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) 
turbine for the production of electric power.
By the end of November the FPR will be operational and on show for those that want to try and buy.
The Pyro Yield Team
The team consists of engineering, scientific, academic and business professionals who are partnering to enable the success of this innovative project.
Dan
David
Neil
Mark
Chris
Tim
Dan Morgan
Dan career path started in the building and civil engineering industry from there into the offshore oil and gas industry as a deep sea diver with Sub Sea International, Comex Houlder and Wharton Williams Taylor where he went on to develop re-breather technology, life support systems and underwater remotely operated vehicles, (ROV’s) gradually moving into offshore operations covering all aspects of pipe line, cable lay and well head support.
Dan is a qualified Deep Sea Saturation Diver, Robotic Submarine Pilot and Engineer and has qualifications in welding, explosive cutting, and photography to name a few.
In addition to the aforementioned he has also developed his diverse technical and people skills in mine clearance, peace negotiation and farming, having worked with several universities and NGO’s in many different countries and diverse cultures.
In the late nineties he focused his attention on improving the technology used to recover energy and charcoal from the coconut shell accelerating the development of renewable energy technologies in the Philippines working in part with Summa Alta Terra Industries Inc. and the Philippine Coconut Authority and in 1997 producing the first commercial scale syngas, carbon and hydrated lime production plant deriving the energy from the coconut shell.
This early work brought about the development of the prototype Fast Pyrolysis Reactor soon to be deployed in the renewable energy sector for the production of clean energy, activated carbon and biochar which he is fully engaged in the development of today as Chief Operations Officer of Pyro Yield Ltd.
David Kain
A senior operational management professional with a proven track record of strategic leadership and operational management within the Food Industry.
Experience of driving effective and efficient business practices through skills including leadership of 130 staff, full P&L accountability for £60 million turnover business, team development, quality management, service level control, project management up to £8 million, environmental and safety management, delivering exacting standards with a strong customer focus.
Director of Society Dairy Technology, sat on Dairy UK Scientific & Technical committee, leadership of multi-disciplined cross-functional teams in wider Group Business projects.
Wide-ranging, large scale capital investment and project management experience. 10 years experience of managing scope, design, purchase and installation of multiple, large investment capital projects
Neil Robertson BSc.(Hons), MBA, DipM, MCIM MIOD MEI.
Neil started his career with British Petroleum working on improving polyethylene plant economics after having spent a year in industry with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority examining fast breeder reactor plant failure rates. He then spent 15 years with the German chemical multinational Hoechst AG and latterly Sanofi Aventis in the UK and Germany, where he led global strategic planning and business development for key business sectors, production plant strategies and the planning of research and development direction. He went on to become Managing Director of Sanofi spin-out company Ceva Sante for the UK and Ireland.
Neil currently is site director for Forss Business & Technology Park, in Caithness which was established with EU and UK government backing to support the development of nuclear decommissioning engineering companies in the north of Scotland and to provide infrastructure for renewable energy commercialisation.
Neil holds a degree in Chemistry with combined process engineering and Business Studies BSc (honours) from the University of Salford, an MBA from Strathclyde Graduate Business School with electives in Commercial Law and Finance, and is a member of the Energy Institute, the Institute of Directors, and the Chartered Institute of Marketing also being a Chartered Marketer.
Mark Heslop
Biography: First degree: MEng (Chemical Engineering) from Nottingham 1987. Second degree: PhD from Loughborough University in 1993.
I worked as a Research Fellow at Loughborough on a variety of projects related to the measurement of small flows to characterise reaction and adsorption systems.
I moved to Strathclyde (Chemical and Process Engineering) as a Lecturer in 2001, where I lectured on heat transfer and thermodynamics.
In 2012, I then moved to Sheffield as a Senior University Teacher.
Chris Watkin
Managing Director of Envirocomply Ltd.
Specialising in compliance evaluations against environmental legislation. Environmental and energy management systems consultancy, incorporating design and development, training and auditing services. Contracted to major certification body as Lead Assessor for Environmental & Energy Management System assessments.
Provision of advice on environmental legal requirements and licence / permit / consent applications. Key sectors include oil & gas, power industries, aerospace, agriculture/aquaculture, waste and manufacturing.
Previously worked as an Environmental Protection Officer.
Bachelor of Technology in Chemical & Process Engineering and Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Environmental Monitoring & Protection.
Tim Moreby
Tim is a retired chartered engineer with degrees in engineering and economics. He worked in a number of different industries including shipping, manufacturing and contracting in operational, development and management roles.
Many of these involved projects that had an energy focus.
For the last 13 years of his career he worked in economic development with various entities operating under the Scottish Enterprise umbrella supporting companies involved in innovative projects the product development process.
The Pyro Yield Mission...
To develop and build the most efficient Fast Pyrolysis Reactors for the production of activated carbon, biochar and the provision of thermal energy and gas for the generation of clean energy.
Taking everything we have learned in the past decade and integrating it ultimately into self sufficient combined heat and power plants that are: when required both modular and mobile allowing them to be deployed at the point of raw material source.
In our ultimate journey to deploy thousands of reactor power plants all over the world we are ever conscious that our planet is a fragile home beset by many present and future challenges we trust that our efforts can and will reduce the damage done by fossil fuels, and in addition to that, the places in the world where people are marginalised, where access to power, clean water and education are limited, a reactor power plant would with a sustainable biomass supply, transform lives by virtue of some very basic facts, one: that poverty would be eradicated, two, people would come to realise that they now have the power of self determination, three health, education and the many things we in the developed world take for granted would begin to be within their grasp.
If we the individuals who have worked to build this company and those that follow behind us can achieve that then we have done the job we came here to do.
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