If you want to look at the situation from the point of view that the catalyst wasn't SPECIFICALLY mentioned in the IsleChem report then analyze it this way.
IsleChem DID report the output of the process.
IsleChem DID report the percentages of the various components of the output of the process.
If you accept IsleChem's results, it doesn't really matter if the catalyst was used or not. The PROCESS produces results that are significantly better than those reported by other pyrolysis processes.
It doesn't really matter if JBII used the secret catalyst or if they used powdered turkey beaks.
The PROCESS results are very good. I happen to think the catalyst is quite important.
If you look at the results of various pyrolysis systems, it is quite clear that the ones that use a catalyst have more desireable outputs than those that don't. So, the use of a catalyst has been shown to be a big improvement in results.
I was addressing the argument that the IsleChem reports don't specifically mention that the catalyst was used in the testing.
That argument seems to me to be a ridiculous argument. The catalyst is an integral part of the JBII process.
What I was pointing out is that the results as documented by IsleChem are very good. If someone wants to assume that because the catalyst wasn't used, fine, the results still are very good.
That makes the argument of whether the catalyst was used or not moot.
Control data is not needed in a commercial situation.
Preexisting data on the pyrolysis process is wisely available and quite adequately describes what outputs can be expected. That widely available information is more than sufficient to provide a suitable reference point for comparison with the outputs of the JBII process.
IsleChem's personnel have a huge base of experience in the hydrocarbon industry. They know what can be expected from a pyrolysis process.
Their initial reluctance to allow the IsleChem name to be associated with even the testing of the JBII process shows that they are aware of the dismal results of previous pyrolysis attempts.
After doing initial testing of the JBII process they were impressed enough to allow JBII to use the IsleChem name publicly. That says quite a bit about what IsleChem thinks of the process results.
If they ran a control test or not is irrelevant.
In a scientific paper being published in academia such a control test would be required.
Dadgum, this isn't academia now is it?
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