Fast pyrolysis oil, produced by rapid thermal decomposition of lignocellulosic biomass in the absence of oxygen, offers a renewable alternative to fossil fuels in diverse combustion technologies. Its ...

Alternative sustainable fuels for residential heating are needed in the household sector to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, even the most advanced residential heating systems are unable to ...

BTG Biomass Technology Group have successfully launched operation of a first of a kind thermo-chemical fractionation plant, an important step towards the commercialisation of a fast pyrolysis based ...

IN his opening address, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald said that a little more than a generation ago, oil was displacing coal as a source of power, and chemists began to wonder whether it was not possible to ...

AMES, Iowa – A special issue of the journal Energy Technology details the latest advances in pyrolysis technologies for converting biomass into fuels, chemicals and fertilizers. “The purpose of this ...

AMES, Iowa – Lysle Whitmer, giving a quick tour of the technical upgrades to an Iowa State University biofuels pilot plant, pointed to a long series of stainless steel pipes and cylinders. They’re ...

The project will combine torrefaction pretreatment and catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP) of biomass. Several problems will be investigated and solved when integrating torrefaction pretreatment and CFP: ...

Fast pyrolysis experiments are carried out in a fully controlled, continuously operated mini-plant designed and constructed by Biomass Technology Group B.V., BTG (Enschede, The Netherlands) based on ...