ThermoChem Recovery International Inc. (site), headquartered in Baltimore, USA recently launched a large-scale, state-of-the-art biomass gasification demonstration facility in Durham, N.C.
The plant will be used for research and development of the company’s commercial projects to produce power, biofuels and other biobased chemicals.
The 1-MW-thermal demonstration unit will run on four tons of dry biomass per day. TRI’s gasification technology is capable of processing all types of biomass feedstocks. The technology can handle any kind of carbonaceous feedstock. The company’s commercial plant in Norampac-Trenton, Ontario, a container-board producer, uses black liquor and has been in operation since 2003. Black liquor, a byproduct of the pulp and paper mills, is “particularly nasty” and considered to be waste. The gasification technology can turn this "nasty waste" in useful biofuels.
Source credit: Biomass Magazine
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