Clean Technology Conference
Oxford Catalysts Group PLC
02 October 2007
2 October 2007
OXFORD CATALYSTS GROUP PLC
('Oxford Catalysts' or 'the Company')
Oxford Catalysts to Present at Jefferies 4th Global Clean Technology Conference
Oxford Catalysts Group PLC, the leading catalyst innovator for clean fuels, is
pleased to announce that it has been granted the opportunity to present at the
Jefferies 4th Global Clean Technology Conference at Claridge's Hotel, London on
Thursday 18th October 2007 (see http://www.jefferies.com/101807 for further
details).
The Company will be discussing its specialty catalyst technologies for the
generation of clean fuels from both conventional fossil fuels and renewable
sources. The Group has two key platforms resulting from almost 20 years of
research at the University of Oxford's prestigious Wolfson Catalysis Centre.
The conference aims to highlight leading players and emerging growth companies
who are addressing today's critical energy supply and security issues,
environmental concerns and sustainability.
The conference is a one-day event including two tracks of public company
presentations and one track of private company presentations. The audience will
be comprised of institutional and private equity investors, VCs, and industry
executives.
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For further information, please contact:
Roy Lipski, CEO, Oxford Catalysts 01235 841 700
Jonathon Brill / Billy Clegg, Financial Dynamics 020 7831 3113
Notes to Editors
Oxford Catalysts Group PLC, the leading catalyst innovator for clean fuels,
designs and develops specialty catalysts for the generation of clean fuels from
both conventional fossil fuels and certain renewable sources such as biomass.
Its patent-pending technology is the result of almost 20 years of research at
the University of Oxford's prestigious Wolfson Catalysis Centre, headed by
Professor Malcolm Green, one of the world's most respected inorganic chemists.
Oxford Catalysts was founded by Professor Green and Dr Xiao in October 2004 and
was admitted to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange on 26th
April 2006, having raised £15m before expenses from a solid base of
institutional investors.
Oxford Catalysts' strategy is to license its catalysts for commercial
application by entering into co-development partnerships with leading
manufacturers, producers and suppliers in the petroleum, petrochemicals, fuel
cells, biogas, steam applications and catalysis markets.
Oxford Catalysts has two key platform technologies. The first is for a novel
class of catalysts made from metal carbides which, for certain reactions, can
match or exceed the benefits of traditional precious metal catalysts at a lower
cost. Applications of these metal-carbide catalysts include the removal of
sulphur from crude oil fractions (known as hydro-desulphurisation or HDS), the
conversion of natural gas or coal into virtually sulphur-free liquid fuels via
the Fischer-Tropsch reaction (known as the GTL and CTL processes respectively),
and the transformation of biogas (waste methane) into syngas - the building
block of liquid fuels.
The second platform relates to chemical reactions involving a liquid containing
a renewable fuel, such as methanol, ethanol or glycerol, and dilute hydrogen
peroxide. The company's novel catalyst can be used to release hydrogen gas from
this liquid, instantaneously starting from room temperature. This groundbreaking
Instant Hydrogen technology has the potential to significantly accelerate the
commercial adoption of fuel cells in the portable and other mobile markets, by
providing the much needed source of cheap, safe, transportable hydrogen.
Another of the company's catalysts can be used to produce steam at temperatures
between 100degrees C and 800degreesC+ instantaneously starting from room
temperature, from a liquid fuel containing dilute hydrogen peroxide and either
an alcohol, sugar, glycerol, starch or formic acid. Such Instant Steam could
have important applications in a broad range of markets, from cleaning and
disinfecting, to green energy in the form of motive power or electricity.
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