This is taken from an interview on CEO CFO. RB doesn't talk about the PhD thesis that he (Orb.) bought:
We went about opening my chemistry books and deriving a new process to transform this aluminous clay into high purity alumina. (http://www.ceocfointerviews.com/interviews/ORT-Orbite11.htm)
BUT, I read this in :
To go from clay to high purity alumina, the company has purchased the results of a Laval University doctoral thesis that conducted laboratory trials that succeeded in extracting between 97 and 100% pure alumina. Further work was undertaken in Centre d´études des procédés chimiques du Québec (CÉPROCQ) two or three years ago and which led to the conclusion that the process is cost-effective and that is economically viable to extract clay alumina from the deposit. (http://justdigging.wordpress.com/category/local-stakeholders/page/2/) RB doesn't seem to talk about the PhD thesis that he (Orb.) bought as the above attests.
HOWEVER, on Orb's website, I found this:
In 2004, researchers at Université Laval conducted laboratory trials to provide indications on the quality of the aluminous clay from Grande-Vallée. The Laval team conducted numerous extraction trials using acid-dissolution methods followed by a process of pyrohydrolysis at high temperature. These trials enabled the extraction of an alumina (Al2O3) that was 95% to 97% pure on average, with results showing extraction rates of 99% and 100%. There seems to be some kind of misrepresentation of the truth. I am confused!
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Yes you are confused. If you made you DD you would know this. 1st it was a thesis made at the Laval university. It has been verify by the CÉPROCQ after numerous test that the thesis was working. The CÉPROCQ is part of the Maisonneuve CEGEP and its goal is to help companies so it does not have any money interest in the project. Of course RB would have to open his chemistry book since it is a chemical process. There is no question that it is working, the question is.... will it be commercially viable. This is the risk. |
