Company: BCHT
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001477932-25-003808
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Company: Birchtech Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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 been shown to achieve mercury emissions removal at a significantly lower cost and with less operational impact to coal-fired power plants than other used methods, while maintaining and/or increasing power plant output and preserving the marketability of byproducts for beneficial use.  We design systems and materials tailored and formulated specifically to each customer’s coal-fired units.  North America is currently the largest market for our emissions technologies. 

The market for mercury removal from power plant emissions in the United States have largely been driven by federal regulations.  The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule, proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in May 2011 and which became effective in April 2012, is intended to reduce air emissions of heavy metals, including mercury (Hg), from all major U.S. power plants burning coal or oil, which are the leading source of non-natural mercury emissions in the U.S.  Our mercury removal technologies and systems will achieve mercury removal levels which meet or exceed the MATS requirements with lower cost and plant systems impacts than typical PAC or BAC sorbent injection systems. Our products have been shown to be successful across a myriad of fuel and system types, tunable to any configuration, and environmentally friendly, allowing for the recycling of fly ash for beneficial use.  

Our SEA® technology provides total mercury control with solutions that are based on a thorough scientific understanding of actual and probable interactions involved in mercury capture in coal-fired flue gas. A complete understanding of the complexity of mercury-sorbent-flue gas interactions and chemisorption mechanisms allows for optimal control strategy and product formulation, resulting in effective mercury capture. Combined with a thorough proprietary audit of the plant and its configuration and instrumentation, we believe our complete science and engineering approach for mercury-sorbent-flue gas interactions are well-understood, highly predictive, and critical to delivering total mercury control.

We believe that a significant percentage of coal-fired power plants in the United States have adopted and are infringing upon our two-part Sorbent Enhancement Additive (SEA®) process for mercury removal from coal-fired power plants. 

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Beginning in 2019, we began to actively enforce our patent rights against unauthorized use of our patented technologies, and have since initiated patent litigation in various jurisdictions against multiple infringers, claiming infringement of our patents related to our two-part process for mercury removal from coal-fired power plants. We view such litigation as a last resort.  Our goal and overall strategy is to convert