Possible applications

First of all, we would like to focus on contribution to Zero hunger in the world by our technology. Especially, we believe that CircuLite will provide concrete results and mitigate unsolved emergency issues in the Agricultural Soil Sector in developing countries as below.

1. Improve Physical Property of Soil:
   Prevent outflow of fertilizer from existing soil to ground water, soil contamination (harmful heavy metal, agrochemicals) and disproportion of soil, and increase water-holding capacity.
2. Improve Chemical Property of Soil:
   Prevent salt damage, replant failure and soil acidification.
3. Increase Organic Carbon Content: Available to add it on CircuLite.

Note: To make these issues possible, we need some partners who can administrate to manage soil analysis and diagnosis.

Competitive advantage

1. Investment aspect: Provide a Supportive Service

• Initial cost: Manufacturing facilities for CircuLite are extremely simple and standard.  
• Basically, as we would like to suggest the best business plan for reduction of the product cost and convenient maintenance, we support to search some kind of machinery manufactures where we get facilities at low price as close to the planed site as possible. That is our basic idea.
• Manufacturing cost: Water, electricity, heat source: Waste heat recovery is the best method in terms of cost, environment and chemicals. We support to investigate these prices with local members in advance. Because that may depend on the region. It allows to calculate the cost, which can help to grasp a profitability of this project.

2. Technical aspect:

• Recycling Technology: Technical correspondence to various kind of resources or waste as raw material of CircuLite.
• Special skill: Available to produce white color product for cosmetic, sanitary products and related products, or other applications for various market.

 3. Performance aspect:

• Heat resistant temperature: approximately 450℃
• Acid resistance: approximately pH≦4
• Alkali resistance: approximately pH≧12 .
• CEC: Controllable according to applications.
• Pore size distribution: Broad 0.4 nm -120 nm
  ※Note: Each condition may change depending on resources.　CircuLite is not appropriate for molecular sieve.

4. Price
According to the price on these items, please inquire to us by e-mail. E-mail: sean＠sion66v.com

Performance

CircuLite has widely been used as adsorbents and ion exchangers.

A: Physical Adsorption: Based on the Cavity and Porosity.
・Pore size distribution: Broad 0.4 nm -120 nm
・Average pore size：20〜50 μm *Depend on raw material
・Specific Surface area: 210 m²/g (N₂)
・Particle size: 20 mm (LD) *Depend on resource.
・Heat-resistant: approximately 450 ℃
・Bulk specific gravity: approximately 0.6 g/ml
・Specific gravity: approximately 1.65 g/cm³ 

B: Chemical Adsorption (based on the chemical composition)
・CEC: approximately max: 500 cmol(+)/kg
・pH: Controllable according to applications.
   ※Note (Result Value) : Coal Ash Based

Technical maturity / Past record of introduction

Results of the project of applying proprietary technology as a business: 2 projects
・Domestic – 01 Fly Ash Based: Electric Power Company Production Capacity: 3,000 ton/y – for 10yrs.
・Overseas – 01 Rice Hull Ash Based: Waste Disposal Company Production Capacity: 1,000 ton/y – for 6yrs.

This proprietary technology has progressed in these last few decades in some aspect such as performance, cost, application range and safety.

Information on patent related to this technology

Note: On the process of being patented

Name	Sion Corporation
Address	#101 1F Chateau AOYAMA, 5-4-51 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 107-0062 Japan
Capital	10 million JPY (as of 15 November, 2019)
Contact person	Mr. Shunsuke KUMAGAI (CTO) Email: [email protected] TEL: +81-3-5443-8335 Corporate website: http://www.sion66v.com
Number of employees	2 (as of 15 November, 2019)
Date of company foundation	Established: 22 March, 2016
The type of business	Category of Business: Circular Economy Technology R&D and Technology Transfer: including facility design and technical guidance, and supportive service for business as venous industry. Description of Business: To transfer proprietary technology by finding matching between the seeds of the technology development and the needs of public sector, enterprises, and so on.

                  

International operation

Number of employees for international operation		2
Overseas offices	City, Country	Name of Company (if applicable)
	N/A	N/A

Modality of business transaction

Partnership
First of all, we would like to conclude the consulting contract with clients to carry out Feasibility Study at customer’s expense to evaluate the possibility of utilization of the unused resources, no matter the cost. After that we would like to conclude the Fundamental Contract of Technology Transfer with clients.

Export of Product
CicuLite has been exported to Japan, Taiwan and China.

Licensing of patent
We normally expect our customers to establish processing plants. We can simply license our patents and know-how to customers by royalty payments. In addition, it could be difficult to develop recycling business by utilizing CircuLite unless customers become knowledgeable about its chemical and physical properties. If needed, it can be an option for us to have a ‘technical collaboration agreement’ with customers in order to seek for both environmental and agricultural application, in cooperation.

Schematic illustration of the technology

1 – Recycle Technology：Integrated Design Technology from unused material to CircuLite
Facilities to produce multi-functional composite material: CircuLite via proprietary unused resources recycling system.        *Note: Case Rice husk ash (As raw material)