biomass gasification News
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Envirotherm And ZeroPoint Clean Tech To Build New Biomass Power Plants
Envirotherm, an Allied Technologies company, and ZeroPoint Clean Tech, the world's leading biomass gasification technology company, have announced they will join forces to build turn-key, biomass power plants. These combined heat and power (CHP) plants are the first standardized biomass gasification plants in the global renewable energy market to be fully EPC delivered with performance ...
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WBA releases thermochemical gasification of biomass factsheet
The World Bioenergy Association (WBA) is pleased to announce the release of the factsheet ‘Thermochemical Gasification of Biomass’ – the eight in the series of publications. This factsheet provides a concise overview of the technology, basics of gasification, feedstock and current global use. Thermochemical biomass gasification is a high temperature process to convert biomass ...
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ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. Announces Solution That Extends Life of Landfill Gas Energy Projects
ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. announced an initiative to extend the life of landfill gas energy projects. Biomass gasification can extend the life and value of these energy-producing assets through on-site production of gas for existing gas engines and transmission grid connections. The ZeroPoint Renewable CHP Solution produces synthesis gas that is suitable for blending with landfill gas to operate ...
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Nexterra Receives $6.9 Million Order to Deliver Biomass Gasification System to Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Michigan
Nexterra Systems Corp. announced today that it has signed a $6.9 million (USD) contract to deliver a biomass gasification system for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Battle Creek, Michigan. The state-of-the-art biomass gasification system will provide clean, carbon-neutral heat and power to the medical center. The total cost of the project is $18 million (USD) and ...
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Nexterra signs Collaborative Bioenergy Research Agreement with the University of British Columbia
Nexterra Systems Corp. and the University of British Columbia announced today that they have signed a Collaborative Research Agreement to develop an advanced method of conditioning synthetic gas based on Nexterra's proprietary biomass gasification technology. Under the agreement, Nexterra and UBC will work together on a project to assess the potential for a new, lower cost catalytic process ...
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Biochemical, Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass in Focus at UREM 2015, Day Two
Today (Mar 26, 2015) the Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting learned that while biomass gasification for the purpose of making fuels and chemicals would be used to produce biofuel in the Nordic countries, and preferably dimethyl ether (bioDME), countries in southern Europe might prefer to use it to produce heat. Italy and Spain were mentioned as countries where the technology might be taken into ...
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Nexterra consortium reaches financial close on biomass gasification plant in Northamptonshire, UK
Nexterra announced today that it has reached financial close on the Welland Waste Wood Power Plant which will use Nexterra’s gasification technology. Nexterra also participated in the development and financing of the £51.6 m project located in Northamptonshire, UK. The Welland project is the second biomass gasification power plant developed in co-operation with Balfour Beatty ...
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Problem-solving Studies on Biomass Gasification, Waste Water Treatment Enabled by VR Grants
Bio4Energy researchers have won funds for carrying out scientific studies on reducing soot formation in biomass gasification for making biofuels, as well as two projects on water purification in developing countries. The prestigious Swedish Research Council (VR) announced a number of decisions on research funding this week, with the grants to Bio4Energy's researchers corresponding to the 'Natural ...
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Rentech Announces Conference Schedule for September 2012
Rentech, Inc. (NYSE MKT: RTK) today announced its conference schedule for September 2012. September 19-20, 2012 Imperial Capital 6th Annual Global Opportunities Conference New York, NY Presenter: Hunt Ramsbottom, President & CEO Speaking Time: September 20th, 9:30 a.m. (EDT) September 20-21, 2012 Credit Suisse 2012 Small & Mid Cap Conference New York, NY ...
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Frost & Sullivan: Favorable Laws and Programs Ignite the Biomass Gasification and Pyrolysis Market
The nascent application of gasification and pyrolysis as power-producing technologies is soon expected to give way to a lively adoption rate of these technologies in North America. The governments are offering funding and support for renewable energy to assuage escalating environmental concerns. Analysis from Frost & Sullivan's (http://www.energy.frost.com) North American Biomass ...
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Rentech Announces Conference Schedule for July 2012
Rentech, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: RTK) today announced its conference schedule for July 2012. July 10-11, 2012 U.S. Department of Energy Biomass 2012: Confronting Challenges, Creating Opportunities—Sustaining a Commitment to Bioenergy Washington, D.C. Plenary Session: The Future of the Renewable Fuel Standard and Bioenergy Tax Policy Speaking Time: July 10th, 2:15 p.m. ...
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TAIM WESER will attend FUTURESOURCE London
TAIM WESER is going to attend the second edition of Futuresource, Europe´s sustainability event to be held in the London’s Excel building from June 15 to 17. Futuresource is a leading trade event in the environmental sector and in its first edition in 2009 attracted more than 360 exhibitors and 7.500 visitors, coming from more than 50 countries. The exhibition is divided into six ...
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Kruger Products wins coveted CIPEC leadership award for innovative biomass gasification technology
Kruger Products L.P., Canada's leading manufacturer of quality tissue products, was recognized for its environmental leadership and energy conservation achievements through the 2011 Canadian Industry Program for Energy Conservation (CIPEC) Leadership Awards. The Company earned this distinction for its innovative biomass gasification system in its New Westminster, BC tissue facility. This ...
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Nexterra wins British Columbia Technology Industry Association award for best application
Nexterra Systems Corp., a leading supplier of advanced, renewable biomass gasification heat and power solutions, today announced that it has received the Best Application of Technology Award from the British Columbia Industry Association (BCTIA). This award recognizes Nexterra"s biomass gasification system at Kruger Products LP"s New Westminster tissue mill. The system converts wood residue into ...
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TAIM WESER to unveil high-efficiency biomass gasification plant at Expobioenergía 2009
TAIM WESER will unveil its latest biomass gasification plant at Expobionergía 09. This is an innovative green cogeneration system that the company has developed and marketed itself. The high-energy efficiency plant uses biomass to produce electricity and heat. Due to its compact size and modular design it can be installed wherever the biomass product is created. The fourth Expobioenergía 09 is ...
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TAIM WESER to unveil high-efficiency biomass gasification plant
TAIM WESER will unveil its latest biomass gasification plant at Expobionergía 09. This is an innovative green cogeneration system that the company has developed and marketed itself. The high-energy efficiency plant uses biomass to produce electricity and heat. Due to its compact size and modular design it can be installed wherever the biomass product is created. The fourth Expobioenergía 09 is ...
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ZeroPoint Clean Tech Announces Second Live Biomass Gasification Power Plant and More to Follow
ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. (ZeroPoint) today announced that its second biomass gasification deployment is producing carbon negative heat and power. The second site to achieve successful grid connection is in Newry, Ireland. The first site is operational in Germany. ZeroPoint's carbon negative process utilizes biomass to create renewable gas and yields biochar as a co-product. Biochar is a highly ...
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Takeover Means Bio4Energy Partner ETC Becomes SP Energy Technology Centre
The SP Swedish Technical Research Institute of Sweden is taking over the Bio4Energy partner Energy Technology Centre at Piteå, an 18-employee strong research foundation specialised in the thermal conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals. The announcement came yesterday at a press conference at Piteå, in northern Sweden. It comes less than two years after the SP, a large technical ...
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Agricultural waste could power fuel cells for clean energy
Agricultural waste (such as plant stalks) is an accepted energy source for second-generation biofuels. Recently, Greek scientists have recognised the potential to use biological material, including agricultural waste, for fuel cells. This technology has potential to provide decentralised, renewable heat and power and may become a major technology for power generation in the coming decades because ...
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GE Supports Need for Distributed Power in Indonesia with Announcement of Key Projects
GE’s Integrated Biomass Gasification Solution to Power the Country’s First Biomass-to-Power Plants for on-Grid Applications Using Bamboo and Wood Biomass Feedstock Gas Compression Station Facility to be Upgraded with GE’s Gas Engines Supporting the need for distributed power in Indonesia, GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that it has signed three contracts for distributed ...
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