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EQTEC - Research & Development Project
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).
At the end of 2022, a wide range of new opportunities for both EQTEC and LERMAB was made possible with upgrade of the facility for steam-oxygen gasification, which supports advanced syngas applications. Now, beyond testing a wide range of waste feedstocks for combined heat and power (CHP) applications, we are able to also test for syngas that can support methanation for renewable natural gas (RNG), hydrogen separation, Fisher-Tropsch (FT) gas-to-liquid process for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other liquid fuels and even transformation into chemicals such as methanol or ethanol.
Because the EQTEC installation at LERMAB is an end-to-end industrial plant at small scale, rather than simply a test facility for part of the process, it is the ideal environment within which EQTEC can both test customer feedstocks and gasification processes as part of plant design and innovate its own technologies at speed.