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Western Research Institute (WRI) Services
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Energy & Environmental Technology - Bioenergy & Gasification
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Biomass Gasification
Spinning straw into gold is close to reality for some farmers pursuing alternative energy to support their operations. Converting biomass to energy is an obvious solution for farmers who have resources such as crop salvage readily available to fuel their power needs. In the Pacific Northwest, grass seed farmers are annually left with more than one million tons of straw from which they realize little income by selling it as animal feed. A much greater ...
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Coal Gasification
WRI is pioneering coal combustion and gasification technologies for integrated, ultra-clean power plants. The technologies will provide the flexibility to produce 'opportunity' products, including clean transportation fuels, high-value chemicals, synthesis gas, and hydrogen in concurrence with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Vision 21 ...
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Thermochemical Production of Liquid Fuels
WRI's thermochemical processes for converting feedstock to liquid fuel are related to Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) synthesis and offer significant gains in efficiency over other conversion methods. WRI’s proprietary process converts carbonaceous feedstock to synthesis gas, which is then converted to ethanol and other higher alcohols using a proprietary WRI catalyst. Catalysts used in the thermochemical process are tested in our bench-scale fuel synthesis ...