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EQTEC’s engineers have worked on gasification since the 1990s. EQTEC’s engineering team currently includes four PhDs in chemical engineering, with specialisms in gasification. CTO and inventor Dr Yoel S. Alemán Méndez started working professionally with gasification in 1997. In 2005, Dr Alemán established highly accurate kinetic modelling to monitor complex reactions in the gasifier. By 2010, EQTEC had solved the ‘tar problem’ and in 2011 successfully commissioned its first installation at a plant in Spain. At the heart of EQTEC’s capabilities are the specialist chemical, electrical, mechanical and instrumentation engineers that design, deploy and integrate EQTEC’s unique capabilities into client plants.

EQTEC’s R&D programme is built on its long-standing relationship wiht the LERMAB facility at the Université de Lorraine in Épinal, France. For the past 20 years, ERBE has worked on thermochemical conversion of biomass and waste-to-energy. For the past 10 years, the team has worked with EQTEC to co-develop a gasification pilot plant based on EQTEC’s bubbling fluidized bed Advanced Gasification Technology and especially, EQTEC’s air-blown gasification capabilities for producing syngas for traditional, combined heat and electric power (CHP).