Industria e Innovazione selects Honeywell’s Envergent RTP for biomass pyrolysis power project

Envergent Technologies, a Honeywell company, announced today that Italian power

company Industria e Innovazione has selected the Envergent RTP rapid thermal

processing technology for the development of a facility to convert biomass

into pyrolysis oil for renewable power generation.

Industria e Innovazione and Envergent have signed an agreement to pursue

development of an RTP facility to convert a mix of pine forest residues and

clean demolition wood into pyrolysis oil, a liquid biofuel. The facility will

be designed to process around 150 bone-dry metric tons per day of biomass to

pyrolysis oil for the generation of renewable electricity.

Envergent will provide engineering for the facility which is projected for

start-up in 2012.

“This project marks an important milestone for renewable power generation in

Europe,” said Mark Reno, managing director of Envergent Technologies. “A unit

at Industria e Innovazione would represent a new energy option for the region

that would utilize readily-available biomass residuals while offering a

reduced carbon footprint.”

“Compared to traditional biomass combustion technologies, RTP offers several

advantages, including improved efficiency in power production, lower costs and

a lower environmental impact,” said Federico Caporale, CEO of Industria e

Innovazione.

The RTP process works by rapidly heating biomass such as wood chips or straw

at ambient pressure to generate high yields of pourable, liquid pyrolysis oil.

This oil can then be burned for energy in industrial burners and furnaces for

heat or used to generate electricity. Envergent Technologies is also focused

on development and commercialization of technology to further refine pyrolysis

oil into renewable transportation fuels like green gasoline, green diesel and

green jet fuel, and plans to have the technology available for license by

2012.

Envergent Technologies is a joint venture of UOP and Ensyn Corp. It combines

nearly 100 years of refining and process technology development from UOP, a

Honeywell company, and more than 25 years of pyrolysis technology experience

from Ensyn Corp. RTP is currently in use in seven commercial biomass

processing plants in the U.S. and Canada.

Ensyn is a world leader for the production of pyrolysis oil from biomass and

has more than 20 years of commercial experience with its RTP technology. It

produces pyrolysis oil for various natural chemical and fuel products in seven

commercial biomass plants in the US and Canada.

Honeywell’s UOP is a leading international supplier and licensor of process

technology, catalysts, adsorbents, process plants, and consulting services to

the petroleum refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries. It has

been active in the development and licensing of renewable fuel technologies

since 2006 and currently offers technology for the production of green diesel

fuel and green jet fuel.

Free Subscription to the Daily Biofuels Digest e-newsletter

Related Stories

No related posts