Pursuit Dynamics PLC Future Biogas Trial - Utility Products

29 July 2011- Pursuit Dynamics PLC - ("PDX" or "the Company")

Agricultural Waste to Energy trial announced with Future Biogas

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PDX (AIM:PDX) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Future Biogas Ltd ("Future Biogas"), a UK-based company that uses established German anaerobic digestion technology to produce renewable fuels from agricultural waste. The agreement comprises a commercial evaluation of the PDX waste to energy system for Future Biogas's Norwich plant, a fully operational facility, and is scheduled to commence in September 2011. A commercial decision is expected to be made by the end of November. This evaluation will also reinforce the performance baseline that PDX has demonstrated at Cranfield.

Anaerobic digestion is a series of processes that cause microorganisms to break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen and which are used for industrial or domestic purposes to manage waste and/or release energy.
Agricultural digestate produced by Future Biogas will be treated by the PDX system and put into batch anaerobic digestion. The evaluation will last for a period of 60 days and, subject to operation performance verification, Future Biogas can enter into a commercial installation agreement with PDX. The PDX business model for this industry is based on a revenue sharing model.

This is the second field trial that PDX is undertaking in the waste to energy sector over the next few months, following the trial with Thames Water announced on 13 July 2011. These trials are on track to commence mid-august at the Thames
facilities. The company is seeing immense interest in its waste to energy work and expects more trials to be announced shortly. These trials cover municipal sewage, agricultural waste and food / industrial waste.
Commenting on the announcement, Managing Director of Future Biogas, Philipp Lukas said:
"We look forward to working with PDX to bring the benefits of their technology to the biogas sector. The PDX unit could potentially improve various aspects of the biogas process and we are excited by the simplicity of the system's design and implementation".
Commenting on the announcement, PDX CEO, Roel Pieper, said:
"The waste to energy market is significant in size and is growing rapidly with over 5,900 biogas plants in Germany alone, a twenty-fold increase in the last ten years. PDX's technology is clearly differentiated from other solutions in this sector and so we are very well placed to capitalise on the demand from producers to reduce costs and maximise output".
For Further Information, please contact:

Pursuit Dynamics PLC  Roel Pieper, CEO       Tel: +44 (0)1480 422050  Richard Webster, CFO Financial Dynamics  Marc Cohen             Tel: +44 (0) 20 7831 3113 Cenkos Securities  Ian Soanes             Tel: +44 (0)20 7397 8924  Max Hartley Mirabaud Securities  Rory Scott             Tel: +44 (0) 20 7878 3360

Notes to Editors:

About PDX
- PDX (AIM: PDX) owns and commercialises the PDX Atomiser and Reactor
technologies that enable significant reductions in energy usage, process acceleration and result enhancement for a wide range of industrial processes and applications.
- The PDX business model is currently organised into five Lines of Business -
Biofuels; Brewing; Food and Beverages; Public Health and Decontamination;

Industrial Licensing; and Water.
- PDX is headquartered in Huntingdon with an office in London, Schaffhausen, Denver and Connecticut.
- Further information is available at the Company's website: www.pdx.biz
- Publication quality photographs are available from FD.

About Anaerobic digestion

- Anaerobic digesters provide a variety of environmental and public health benefits including: greenhouse gas abatement, organic waste reduction, odor reduction, and pathogen destruction. They are carbon-neutral systems that produce biogas that can be used for heating, generating electricity, mechanical energy, or for supplementing the natural gas supply.
- Anaerobic digesters are used to convert agricultural, industrial, and municipal wastes into biogases that can be upgraded to 97% pure methane as a natural gas substitute or to generate electricity.
- Currently, there over 5,900 biogas plants in Germany with an installed capacity of approximately 2,300 MW. This is 20 times the capacity of 2001. Austria has 551 plants.(1)
- Electricity generation from biogas in 2010 was about 12.8 billion kWh, representing approximately 2.1% of the total electricity consumption in Germany, or approximately 12.6% of the electricity supply from renewable energy sources(2) .
- In 2011, 167 anaerobic digesters generated 478 million kWh of energy in the United States in agricultural operations.(3)
- In developing countries, small-scale anaerobic digesters are used to meet the heating and cooking needs of individual rural communities. China has an estimated 8 million anaerobic digesters while Nepal has 50,000.(4)
1 http://www.biogasportal.info/daten-und-fakten/biogasanlagen/

2 IEA Bioenergy Task 37. Country Reports of Member Countries, Istanbul, April 2011. International Energy Agency. Accessed June 3, 2011.
3 The Agstar Program. U.S. Farm Anaerobic Digestion Systems: A 2010 Snapshot. U.S. EPA. U.S. EPA. Accessed June 2, 2011.
4 IEA Bioenergy. Biogas Production and Utilisation. International Energy Agency. May 2005. Accessed June 3, 2011.

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Will Biogas Power Your Car in the Future?

There are several different types of alternative fuels available for powering vehicles these days and there are more being developed all of the time. Alternative fuels generally cause less pollution and emit fewer greenhouse gases into the environment. Many of them are also cheaper to produce and refine than conventional gasoline and other forms of petroleum. One of these alternative fuels is the non-fossil fuel known as biogas.




This form of fuel is made from the anaerobic digestion of organic matter. It is produced in many landfill sites where organic matter such garden waste and food are present. It can also be made from manure, sewage, and green waste. These components are buried and then compressed in a dark oxygen-free atmosphere. In fact, biogas is still often formed and released into the environment of the earth years after a landfill site is filled in.

Biogas consists mainly of carbon dioxide and methane. However, it may also contain traces of hydrogen, hydrogen sulphide, nitrogen, and possibly even oxygen. If it is processed properly, biogas can be used as a substitute or alternative to natural gas. This means it can be used as an effective fuel for electricity, heating, and cooking, etc.

To collect biogas, the landfill sites need to have gas wells drilled into them. Years ago, the gas was just burnt off. However, more landfills are now being used to collect the substance and the gas is being used as a form of power generation around the world. Some of the landfills have erected dedicated anaerobic digesters which enable them to produce larger quantities of the methane-rich gas at a faster rate, which also cuts down on the amount of waste that needs to be buried in the landfill site.

Another benefit of biogas is the fact that it can be utilized to power various types of vehicles. For example, there is a train in Sweden that is fuelled by biogas which is produced from cow waste and sewage, which contains a lot of methane. The gas is pretty good when it comes to the amount of pollution released as it gives off only one-twentieth of the carbon dioxide that diesel produces. Biogas contains no particulate emissions also only generates one-fifth as much nitrous oxide emissions as diesel.

This bodes well for the future if biogas can be produced, refined and utilized to fuel vehicles across the planet. It is also a renewable fuel therefore it can qualify for certain types of energy subsidies on some regions of the globe. Biogas is being used in various parts of Europe, especially Sweden, to power vehicles such as cars, buses, and trucks and several refuelling stations have been built.

The UK and Germany are two of the leading nations when it comes to the production of biogas. These countries have developed farms and landfills and have constructed several biogas plants as a way to produce it.

While biogas is being generated at a decent rate, the majority of it is used for purposes other than fuel for vehicles. However, this may change in the years to come.

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