Bio Industries

Novel Cellulosic BioIndustrial Technologies and ProductsMarch 27, 2012 Prepared by: Dave Pattterson

Bioindustry: Process: Location: Products: Feedstock Pilot Plants Start Up Plant Size Partners and Affiliations: Proposed (1000 tonne / yr)

steam explosion, enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation Spain ethanol, lignin, electricity 2010 25 kta CIEMAT, University of Lund DOE http://www.abengoa.com/

Abengoa Bioenergy Biomass steam explosion, enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation; gasification St. Louis, MO ethanol, lignin, electricity Raveena, NB 231 kta LLC, Antares Corp., Taylor Engineering

Abengoa Bioenergy Biomass of Kansas, LLC steam explosion, enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation; gasification St. Louis, MO ethanol, lignin, electricity Hugoton, Kansas 2011 363 kta LLC, Antares Corp., Taylor Engineering

Accelergy gasification and catalytic process Houston, Texas jet fuels biomass or coalAdvanced Biorefinery Inc. fast pyrolysis Ottawa, ON BioOil, char, thermal energy forestry residues, waste wood portable, ON Sept., 2006 0.33-17 ktaAE Biofuels Inc. enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation; ambient temperature strach hydrolysis Cupertino, CA ethanol agricultural waste Butte, Montana Aug., 2003

AgderBiocom updraft gasifier with indexing rotary grate 1.2 MWth Norway thermal enrgy, syngas Rotorua, New Zealand 2011 WIT, EECA, Norwagian AgderBiocomAgni Energy Services (P) Ltd. ? gasification Hyderabad, India thermal energy, syngas, electricity rice husks, biomass

Agnion Energy Inc. Heatpipe-Reformer indirect (or allothermal) gasification syngas, thermal energy, electricity solid biomass Grassau, Germany

Agnion Technologies GmbH Heatpipe-Reformer indirect (or allothermal) gasification 32.5 MWth; 6.1 Mwe syngas, thermal energy, electricity lignocellulosics; waste wood Pfaffenhofen, Germany pilotAHT Pyrogas Vertreibs GmbH downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification (0.75 MWe) Gladbach, Germany thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood chips Neustadt, Austria 2003Alcar Chemicals Group hydrogenolysis Vercheres, QC ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, glycerin, sorbitol, xylitol waste biomass Trois Rivieres, QC July, 2008 1-5 kta GenivarAltentech Power Inc. 10 MW peat power plant, biomass drying Vancouver, BC electricity peat pellets Peat Resources LimitedAlholmens Kraft circulating fluidized bed & combined condensing CHP thermal energy, electricity bark, wood, peat Pietarsaari, Finland

ALICO Inc. high temp. gasification & anaerobic bacteria fermentation LaBelle, FL syngas, ethanol, electricity waste wood, urban wastes LaBelle, FL 254 kta DOE

Alpha - Omega Environmental Inc. Thermaloc/TMI/Thermonertia/Aqua-Pristine/FreshRain/Harvest Water syngas, thermal energy. electricity

Alltech community biorefinery Lexington, KY ethanol, wet distillers dried grain Springfield, KYAlterna Energy Inc./Alterna Biocarbon pyrolysis Prince George, BC biocoke, biooil, syngas, thermal energy waste wood McBride, BC May, 2007 Alternative Energy Financing business planning, deal structuring, financial modelling and capital raising London, UK renewable energy finances

Alter NRG Corp. plasma gasification Calgary, Alberta waste Mihama Mikata, Japan 2002

Alter NRG Corp. plasma gasification Calgary, Alberta waste Utashinai, Japan 2003

Alter NRG Corp. plasma gasification Calgary, Alberta waste Pune, India 2008-9

Alter NRG Corp. plasma gasification Calgary, Alberta coal Fox Creek, Alberta

American Energy Enterprises dilute acid hydrolysis Brookfield, Connecticut ethanol New Milford, Connecticut AEE Distilleries Inc.

American Process Inc. Atlanta. GA ethanol, thermal energy, electricity sulphite black liquor Park Falls, WI early 2009 Flambeau River Biorefinery, LLC http://www.americanprocess.com/BiorefineryInitiative.htmlAmericentrale Fuel Gas Plant gasification Netherlands syngas, thermal energy, electricity demolition wood

Amyris Biotechnologies fermentation Emeryville, CA alternate biofuels sugar cane

Andritz Graz, Austria thermal energy, syngas, electricity Ankura Scientific Energy Technologies (P) Ltd ? gasification Baroda, India thermal energy, syngas, electricity ?

Applied Biofuels ethanol MaltaApollo Bioenergy Inc. gasification Sparks, Nevada syngas, Bio-LPG, Biopropane, DME woodArcher Daniels Midland Corp. thermochemical hydrolysis Decatur, IL ethanol, animal feed corn kernel fibre

Abengoa Bioenergy, Biocarburantes Castilla y Leon, Ebro Pulvea

corn stover, wheat straw, switchgrass, milo stubble

Babilafuente, Salamanca, Spain



Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC)

waste wood; mixed waste wood, shavings, hoggings, sawdust, bark

Waste Management Inc., Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Munich Venture Partners and Wellington Partners

Waste Management Inc., Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Munich Venture Partners and Wellington Partners

Bioengineering Resources Inc., Washington Group International, GeoSyntec Consultants, BG Katz Companies, LLC, Emmaus Foundation

Colorado Springs, Colorado

municipal solid waste/ agricultural waste/ wood waste/process water/sewage

grain, switchgrass, corn cobs, corn fibre

Westinghouse Plasma Corporation, Air Products, KiPlasama, Coskata Inc., General Motors, SMS Infrastructures Ltd.,




harvest wastes, sawdust, yard wastes

lignocellulosic biorefinery (AVAP - American Value added Pulping) - combustion, fermentation

Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and TPG Biotech

pulp & paper power boilers, bubbling fluidized bed gasification, circulating fluidized bed gasification

wood biomass, recycled wood, energy crops, sludges, peat

Genesyst Gravity Pressure Vessel for continuous dilute acid hydrolysis with sub-critical water

waste wood, agriculture waste, MSW, sewage sludge, pulp sludge.

Arkenol Fuels, LLC (now BlueFire Ethanol, Inc.) concentrated sulphuric acid hydrolysis with mild acid pre-treatment, Orange County, CA cellulosic ethanol, low grade lignin Sacramento, CAArmstrong Pellet wood pelletization Armstrong, BC wood pellets waste wood

Aerni Pratteln downdraft Kuntschar gasifier 0.13 MWe 0.26 MWth thermal energy, syngas, electricity Pratteln, Switzerland 2009 demoAruna Electrical Works (P) Ltd ? gasification Tamil Nadu, India thermal energy ?ASG Canada Energy Inc. biodiesel, thermal energy, electricity waste biomass Anahim Lake, B.C.

Avantium catalytic production of furfurans Amsterdam, Netherlands

Avedore 2 gas turbines cogeneration thermal energy, electricity natural gas, oil, straw, wood pellets Avedore, Denmark

Avello Bioenergy AvelloFRAC pryrolysis Iowa bio-oil fractions, bio-char Boone Iowa 2.5 tpd demoB9 Energy Biomass Ltd. downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification Londonderry, UK thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood chips, dedicated energy crops Armagh, UK Blackwater Valley Museum

Babcock & Wilcox, Volund updraft co-current fixed bed gasification & Jenbacher engines (1.5 MWe CHP) Ebsjerk, Denmark thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood, agricultural residues, waste Ebsjerk, Denmark 1993

Babcock & Wilcox, Volund Ebsjerk, Denmark thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood, agricultural residues, waste Harboore, Denmark 1996Babcock & Wilcox, Volund air blown updraft co-current fixed bed gasification & Jenbacher engines 12 MWth Ebsjerk, Denmark thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood, agricultural residues, waste Daio, Japan

Babcock & Wilcox, Volund Ebsjerk, Denmark thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood, agricultural residues, waste Yamagata, JapanBabcock & Wilcox, Volund combined cycle gasification Ebsjerk, Denmark thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood, agricultural residues, waste Itlay 2008 Advanced Renewable Energy Ltd.

Battelle Columbus Laboratories, BCL atmospheric circulating fluidized bed FERCO low-inlet velocity gasifier Columbus, OH thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood residuals, pulp sludge Weyerhaeuser Co., McNeil Power Station

BBI International Renewable Energy Solutions for cellulosic ethanol and second generation biofuels Lakewood, CO

BBI BioVentures, LLC biochemical Lakewood, CO ethanol Denver, Colorado 2010 52 kta

BC International (BCI) separate dilute acid hydrolysis and bioengineered E coli fermentation Dedham, MA cellulosic ethanol Loisiana ICF Kaiser and TICBEV, Domsland downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification Eckenforde, Germany thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood chips Eckenforde, Germany AHY Pyrogas

BFT Bionic Fuel Technologies AG catalytic low temperature microwave depolymerization of hydrocarbons diesel; hydrocarbons lignocellulosics; straw pellets 2008 demo 0.4 ktaBG Technologies, LLC downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification Washington, DC thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood Ankur, IndiaBioEnDev AB torrified wood Umeå, SwedenBioenergy LLC charcoal St. Petersbburg, Russia thermal energy wood

BioEnergy International, LLC acid hydroylsis biocatalytic (genetically modified enzyme) fermentation Norwell, Massachusettsnovel catalysts, ethanol cellulose, agricultural waste Clearfield County, PA

Bioengineering Resources Inc. (BRI) New Smyrna Beach, FL syngas, ethanol, electricity, acetic acid, thermal energy Fayetteville, AR 85 kta Alico, Inc. http://www.brienergy.com/Bioenergy Systems Inc. downdraft gasification Spokane, WA thermal energy, syngas, electricity dried cubed biomass

BioEthanol Japan enzymatic hydrolysis & Klebsiella oxytoca + Eschericia coli fermentation Japan ethanol demolition wood Osaka, Japan 2007 16 kta

Biofine Renewables, LLC levulinic acid technology lignocelluloseBioflame Ltd. ? gasification North Yorkshire, UK thermal energy, syngas, electricity waste wood Linconshire 2008BioFuels Energy Corporation Denver, CO ethanol Raymondville, TX Earls Nook Limited (new company name)BioFuels Energy Corporation Denver, CO ethanol Fairmont, Minnesota Earls Nook Limited (new company name)Biogen Ltd. Corp. Biogen/AGT moving bed, downdraft Gasification Miami, Florida syngas, thermal energy, electricity biomassBioFuels Energy Corporation Denver, CO ethanol Wood River, Nebraska. Earls Nook Limited (new company name)

BioGasol ApS Lyngby,Denmark ethanol, hydrogen, methanol, electricity, biogas wheat straw, corn stover, paper Ballerup, Denmark 2010 4 ktabioliq - Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH flash pyroysis, entrained flow gasification; Fisher-Tropsch catalysis syngas, syndiesel, syngasoline lignocellulose, bioil , char Karlsruhe, Germany 2016 4.2 kta LURGI GmbHBiomass Canada Ltd. anaerobic high temp normal atmospheric H20 shift gasification & restricted CO2 format Edmonton, AB wood syngas, electricity hog fuel ? ? 85 kta Sigma 3 Engineering, Universal Compression

Biomass Engineering Ltd. downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification 1 MWe Newton-le-Willows, UK thermal energy, syngas, electricity 2007

Biomass Engineering Ltd. downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification Newton-le-Willows, UK thermal energy, syngas, electricity Lima, Peru

plant and tree clippings, paper and cardboard products or agricultural residues.

lignocellulosics; conditioned clean wood

furan-based biofuels, 2,5-dimethylfuran, ethyoxylmethylfurfural

HMF(hydroxymethyfurfural) from sucrose

mill residues, agricultural waste, waste wood, plantations

Virent Energy Systems, Iowa State University, Cargill, Asphalt Paving Association of Iowa, Borregaard LignTech

Keramische Industrie Bedarfs, McDermott International, Inc

air blown updraft co-current fixed bed gasification & Jenbacher engines (1.5 MWe & 3.5 MWth) CHP

Keramische Industrie Bedarfs, McDermott International, Inc

air blown updraft co-current fixed bed gasification & Jenbacher engines (2 MWe & 8 MWth) CHP

New Bern, NC & Burlington, VT

feasability studies, energy audits, business plans, project development, engineering, technology review and development - cellulosic ethanol

agriculture residues, forest residues, municpal solid waste, energy crops

agriculture residues, forest residues, municpal solid waste, energy crops

Fagen Inc., BBI International, NRG, Stoel Rives LLP, Kennedy & Co

bagasse,corn stover, rice hulls, waste wood

Aarhus - odum, Denmark

Plainfield Asset Management, Camulos Capital, Itera Ethanol, LLC and Context Capital Management, BC International Corporation, University of Florida

high temp. two-stage gasification & anaerobic bacteria fermentation (biocatalytic conversion)

forestry, agricultural & municipal wastes, & demolition wood

Taesei Corp., Marubeni Corp., Daiei Inter Nature System, Sappora Breweries Ltd., Celunol Corp.

levulinate fuels - esters using ethanol, methanol. butanol, or mixed alcohols, formic acid, furfural, lignin char; biochemicals

PBM Power Ltd.

Wet Explosion & enzymatic hydrolysis & xylose fermentation with thermophilic anerobic bacterium and glucose with yeast

Technical University of Denmark, Aalborg University

wood, wood chips, dedicated energy crops

Cumbria, United Kingdom

wood, wood chips, dedicated energy crops

Biomass Gas & Electric LLC hot sand and steam gasification Atlanta. GA thermal energy, syngas, electricity , FL Progress Energy

Biomasse Kraftwerk Gussing GmbH Co KG thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood chips, natural gas Gussing, AustriaBiomass Secure Power Inc. wood pellets, torrefied pellets Abbotsford, B.C. pellets sawmill waste Cowichan Lake, B.C. 2012 250 ktaBiomaxx Systems Inc. Renewable energy consultation Toronto, OntarioBioMCN gasification syngas, methanol woody biomass Delfzijl, Netherlands

Bio SNG Güssing synthesis conversion syngas lignocellulosics Güssing, Austria 2008 demoBiosphere Environmental Energy ? gasification Los Angeles, CA thermal energy, syngas, electricity ?Bioten Corp. combustion and bioturbine Knoxville, TN thermal energy, electricity mill waste Red Boiling Springs, TN GE

Bioversion Industries ? gasification Mississauga, Ontario syngas, ethanol lignocellulosic

Bio Vision Technology Inc. steam explosion hydrolysis & fermentation & steam autohydrolysis New Minas, NS hardwood pellets, lignocellulosic 4 potential NS sites Early 2008 ? NRC, NS Energy, NS AgricultureBiowärme Eberndorf downdraft gasifier thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood, biomass Eberndorf, Austria 2006

BlueFire Ethanol Inc./ Renewables(formerly Arkenol, Inc.) Irvine, CA ethanol Izumi, Japan 2002 ? http://www.bluefireethanol.com/

BlueFire Ethanol Inc/ Renewables(formerly Arkenol, Inc.) Irvine, CA ethanol, low grade lignin sorted green waste and wood waste Mecca, CA DOE

BlueFire Renewables Inc. Irvine, CA ethanol, low grade lignin sorted green waste and wood waste Fulton, Mississippi 2013 Lincoln Park Capital Fund LLCBlue Horizon Bio-Diesel Inc. gasification & Fisher-Tropsch catalysis? Red Deer, Alberta syndiesel, ethanol bitumen & cellulose Esso, Petro-Canada, Shell and Suncor

BMH Energy (BMH Technology Oy) Rauma, Finland Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) MSW

Borgford Bioenergy LLC Octaflame gasifier Colville, Washington syngas, thermal energy

BornBioFuel separate hydrolysis / fermentation ethanol, biogas, lignin, hydrogen agricultural waste 2016 6 ktaBorregaard Industries Ltd. hydrolysis, fermentation of hemicellulose ethanol, vanillin sulfite black liquor Sarpsborg, Norway 1930 500 kta ChemCell EthanolBracknell CHP Energy Center ? CHP thermal energy, electricity waste wood Bracknell, Berkshire, UKBraskem Brazil ethylene, polyethylene ethanol

Brelsford Engineering, Inc. BEI Cellulose (dilute acid two-stage plug-flow) Hydrolysis Reactor and fermentation Bozeman, MT ethanolBRI Process Clostridium conversion of syngas ethanolBrightstar Synfuels Co. steam reforming gasification St. Gabrial, LA thermal energy, syngas wood Baton Rouge, LA 1994

Broin Companies hydrolysis & fermentation Sioux Falls, SD ethanol corn stover Emmetsburg, IO 278 kta DOEBrook Hall Estate downdraft co-current fixed bed gasifier Londonderry, UK thermal energy, syngas, electricity dedicated cellulosic energy crops Londonderry, UK 1998 Rural Generation Ltd.BSP Thermal Systems Inc. multiple hearth furnaces St. Paul, Minnesota thermal energy, char, carbon regeneration wood, agricultural wasteBTG Bioliquids BV fast pyrloysis rotating cone reactor Enshede, Netherlands bio-oil, organic acids biomass Henglo, Netherlands Empyro BV

Buhler rotary and conveyor dryers, wood pellet system wood pellets wood residuals Jackson County, FloridaButamax Advanced Biofuels LLC Wilmington, DE butanol BP, DuPont,

forest residue, municipal solid waste, agricultural waste and energy crops

dual fluidized bed gasification & biocoke circulating bed gasification: CHP (Fast Internal Circulation Fluidized Bed (FICFB) biomass steam gasification)

Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland; Repotec, Austria

Thermo Design Engineering Limited, Woodland Chemical Systems Inc., Aquarius Coatings Inc.

ethanol, CO2, lignin, acetic acid, furfural, electricity, lactic acid, ethyl acetate, xylitol, levoglucosan, hydrogen

concentrated sulphuric acid hydrolysis including flash fermentation, membrane distillation and chromatographic separation of the acid from the sugars

forestry, agricultural & municipal wastes, paper, purpose grown crops

Arkenol, JGC Corp., Applied Power Concepts Inc.


Waste Management, Inc.; JGC Corporation; MECS Inc.; NAES; PetroDiamond; Applied Power Concepts Inc.


TYRANNOSAURUS® SRF Process turns waste into high quality Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF)

thinning waste, forest residues, waste wood

Aakirkeby, Bornholm, Denmark

Siemens, Alfa Laval, Grundfos, Ostkraft, Agro Tech, nne pharmaplan

sawmill waste, corn stover, green waste

E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company; Novozymes North America, Inc.; and DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Bioenergi Lulea, Green Circle Bio Energy Inc., JCE Group

http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2005/04/new_enzyme_deve.html

Cambridge Environmental Technologies variable biomass gasification Cambridge, Maryland syngas, thermal energy, electricity

Canada's Woodland Biofuels demo celluosic ethanol plant Sarnia-Lambton, Ontario ethanol University of Western OntarioCanadian Bio-Coal Ltd. low temperature microwave Vancouver, BC bio-coal; torrified wood Beetle killed woodCanadian Bioenergy Corporation North Vancouver, BC biodiesel supplier & distributorCanadian Gasifier Ltd. (Canfuel) stationary, portable, & mobile, styles of co-current downdraft "Deep Bed" gasifier Brandon, Manitoba

Carbo Consult & Engineering (Pty) Ltd CCE-SJ Gasproducer - downdraft gasifier thermal energy, syngas, electricity SA, Uk, & Namibia ESKOM RoshervilleCarbona Corp. USA pressurized circulating fluidized bed gasification Atlanta, GA thermal energy, syngas, electricity waste woodCarbona Corporation/Carbona Inc. pressurized circulating fluidized bed gasification & CHP & syngas engines thermal energy, syngas, electricity Skive, DenmarkCarbona Inc. pressurized circulating fluidized bed gasification Helsinki, Finland thermal energy, syngas, electricity waste woodCarbonscape microwave gasification Blenheim, New Zealand syngas, electricity, Agrichar biomassCatalyst Renewables Corporation CHP (Central Heat and Power) Dallas, Texas thermal energy, electricity wood, energy cropsCatchlight Energy LLC develop novel technologies San Ramon, CA alternate biofuels cellulose, lignin Weyerhaeuser and Chevron; KiOR

Cathay Industrial Biotech Ltd. produce diacids in a single fermentation step followed by purification Shanghi, China Jilin, China 2008C.C.T. Spa ? gasification Gallarate, Italy thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood chips

Celunol Corp. hydrolysis & Eschericia coli fermentation Cambridge, MA ethanol switchgrass Jennings, LA http://www.celunol.com/

Ceres genomics - plantations for thermomechanical Thousand Oaks, CA http://www.ceres-inc.com/biofuels.html

CNFbiofuel, Inc. Torrefication Salida California torrefied woodChanderpur Works ? gasification Yamuna Nagar, India thermal energy, electricity ?Chapleau Cogeneration Limited plasma gasification Chapleau, ON electricity waste wood, railway ties Temiscaming, QC Tembec, CP RailChempolis Oy’s 3G Formicobio Technologies Oulu, Finland biomass-based products, biofuels and biochemicals reed canary grass Oulu, Finland Esa NiemiChemPro Group LLC catalytic hydrolysis Boonton, New Jersey ethanol wood Mo-Fuel

Chemrec AB Stockholm, Sweden black liquor, wood, peat Pitea, Sweden 2005 7 kta Volvo Technolgy Transfer AB

Chemrec AB Stockholm, Sweden black liquor, wood, Ornskoldsvik, Sweden 2013 380 kta Domsjoe Fabriker AB

Chemrec AB Stockholm, Sweden black liquor, wood, Escanaba, Michigan

Chemrec AB Stockholm, Sweden black liquor, wood, Courtland, ALChevet downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification Limoux, France thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood, agricultural residuesChina Resources Alcohol Corporation (CRAC) enzymatic hydrolysis & xylose + pentose yeast fermentation ZhaoDong City, China ethanol corn stover Sunopta Bioprocess Group, NovozymesChiptec Wood Energy Systems ? gasification South Burlington, VT thermal energy, syngas wood chips

CHOREN Industries GmbH Freiburg, Germany sundiesel, methanol, electricity, thermal energy Freiburg, Germany 2003 Alpha 0.053 kta

CHOREN Industries GmbH Freiburg, Germany sundiesel, methanol, electricity, thermal energy 2007 Sigma 85-1,000 kta

Green or dry chips or hogged fuel Hardwood or softwood chips or hogged fuel Wood pellets Saw dust and shavings Crushed, cleaned and magnetized pallets Certain nut shells and husks Railroad ties Particle board MDF Plywood Paper cubes Coconut shells Certain seeds Processed and cleaned construction and demolition wast

Srania-Lambton Research Park

producer gas, rotational shaft power, heated process water

Johannesburg, South Africa

Briquetted wood or agricultural residues, wood block

long-chain dicarboxylic acids, biobased n-butanol, biobutanol, bioacetone, nucleotides

forest residues, mill residues, agricultural residues, municipal solid wastes, grasses

merged with Diversa (now Verenium Corporation), Marubeni Corporation

switchgrass, willow, sorghum, miscanthus, energy cane, poplar

agricultural waste, forest thinning, waste biomass

anaerobic high temp\pressure H20 shift gasification integrated pulp mill biorefineries (Chemre Booster, Chemrec Black Liquour Gasification Combined Cycle, Chemrec Black Liquour Gasification Motor Fuels)

syngas, electricity, transportation fuels, DME & chemicals, thermal heat, hydrogen, methanol





Volvo Technolgy Transfer AB, New Page Corporation, Haldor Topsøe



Volvo Technolgy Transfer AB, International Paper, Air Products

CHOREN Carbo V low temp. (5-30Bar) NTV gasifier + high temp.(1500C.) HTV gasifier: oxygen injected endothermic entrained flow and Fisher-Tropsch catalysis

forestry, agricultural & municipal wastes



Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Volkswagen, Daimler, Expander Energy Inc., Xynergo (Norske Skog), Turina

CHOREN Fuel Freiburg GmbH & Co KG Freiburg, Germany sundiesel, methanol, electricity, thermal energy Freiburg, Germany 65 kta

CHOREN Industries GmbH Freiburg, Germany waxes, renewable crude oil Brue-Saudron, France 2014 23 kta Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Shell F-T

CHOREN Industries GmbH Freiburg, Germany sundiesel, methanol, electricity, thermal energy Schwedt, Germany 2016 200 kta

CHRISGAS (Clean Hydrogen-rich Synthesis Gas) Foster Wheeler pressurized circulating fixed bed gasifier & catalytic steam reforming Varnamo, Sweden syngas, electricity, transportation fuels wood chips, straw pellets Vaxjo Varnamo, Sewden Swedish Energy AgencyCIRAD fixed bed staged gasifier wood chips, cotton waste

Cleanstgas GmbH Staged biomass gasification 0.150 MWe ; 0.240 MWth thermal energy, syngas, electricity lignocellulosics; wood chips 2009 demoCleantech Biofuels Inc. pressurized steam gasification St. Louis, MO ethanol municipal solid waste Golden, Colorado Hazan Research Inc.

Clear Fuels-Rentech Aiea, Hawaii ethanol, syngas, electricity wood waste 2011 20 ktaClearFuels Technology Inc. steam reformation gasification & modified Fisher-Tropsch catalysis Aiea, Hawaii ethanol, syngas, electricity sugar cane bagasse Hawaii Agriculture Research CenterClearFuels Technology Inc. steam reformation gasification & modified Fisher-Tropsch catalysis 6 - 8 MWe Aiea, Hawaii syndiesel, syngas, electricity waste wood Collinwood, Tennessee 2013 Hughes Hardwood

Cobalt Biofuels Mountain View, CA cellulosic ethanol or biobutanol Alpena, Michigan American Process Inc.

Colusa Biomass Energy Corporation Colusa, CA ethanol, silica/sodium oxide, lignin Colusa, CA 2007 http://www.colusabiomass.com/about.htmCombustion Expert Inc. combustion biomass boilers Trois-Rivières, Québec thermal energy woodComet Biorefining biomass pretreatment: modular cellulosic sugar process London, Ontario C5 & C6 sugars cellulosic biomass Fulton Engineered Specialties Inc.Community Power Corporation Biomax Downdraft Gasifier Littleton, CO syngas, thermal energy, electricity wood chips, nut shells

Community Power Corporation Renewable Fuel Gas Generator, bubbling fluidized bed gasifier Littleton, CO syngas, hydrogen, biofuel, thermal energy, electricity ARC test gasifier

Conzepte Technik Umwelt syngas methanation Bio-syngas fuel (green natural gas) Gussing syngas Gussing, Austria 2008

Condens Oy Novel fixed-bed gasifier Hämeenlinna, Finland syngas, thermal energy, CHP, electricityConocoPhillips / Archer Daniels Midland biooil/biocrude gasification with steam or oxygen, Fisher-Tropsch catalysis Houston, Texas ethanolConvergence Ethanol Inc. catalytic synthesis California ethanol waste wood Hearst, ON 2005 ? Hearst Ethanol One Inc.

CoolPlanet BioFuels, Inc., biomass fractionator, catalysis Camarillo, California gasoline, synthetic diesel, super fuels, char woodchips, crop residuesCORE Biofuels Inc. gasification Sarnia, Ontario syngasoline waste wood Decker Lake, BC Lakes Timber Health and Salvage

Coskata, Inc. gasification & bioreactor, 3 stage syngas and biofermentation process, membrane separation Warrenville, IL syngas, cellulosic ethanol Warrenville, Illinois pilot

Coskata, Inc. gasification & bioreactor, 3 stage syngas and biofermentation process, membrane separation Warrenville, IL syngas, cellulosic ethanol Madison, Pennsylvania Oct. 2009

Coskata, Inc. gasification & bioreactor, 3 stage syngas and biofermentation process, membrane separation Warrenville, IL syngas, cellulosic ethanol woody biomass Boligee, Alabama

Coskata, Inc. gasification & bioreactor, 3 stage syngas and biofermentation process, membrane separation Warrenville, IL syngas, cellulosic ethanol sugar cane, sugar cane bagasse Clewiston, Florida 300 kta

Cosmo Powertech PVT Ltd downdraft co-current fixed bed & updraft co-current fixed bed gasification thermal energy wood chips, agricultural residuesCostich Company downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification Brush Prairie, WA thermal energy, syngas, electricity woodCratech pressurized bubblling fluidized bed gasification Tahoka, TX thermal energy, syngas agricultural residues Tahoka, TX 1996

Crystal Creek Energy LLC gasification Littleton, Colorado syngas, thermal energy, electricity

Cutech Institut GmbH gasification, Fisher-Tropsch liquids 1990 pilot



2011 commercial







KWB Biomasseheizungen GmbH EBNER Industrieofenbau GmbH

High Efficiency Hydrothermal Reformer (HEHTR) steam reformation gasification & slurry bubble column reactor modified Fisher-Tropsch catalysis

Commerce City, Colorado

biomass steam conversion, continuous fixed bed fermentation, and vapor compression distillation.

pulpmill effluent and sludge, agricultural waste

steam explosion, dilute sulphuric acid enzymatic hydrolysis, ultra-filtration membrane, & fermentation

rice straw, rice hulls, corn stover, wood

wood chips, pellets, residues or nut shells, sawdust, corn stover

Vienna University of Technology, Paul Scherrer Institute, Repotec

sawdust, bark, wood fuel chips and peat

BP , GE, Google Ventures, ConocoPhillips, NRG Energy

biomass, municipal solid waste, wood chips, switchgrass, corn stover

biomass, municipal solid waste, wood chips, switchgrass, corn stover

Westinghouse Plasma Corporation, Alter Nrg Corp., GM, Regen International, Total S.A., Blackstone Cleantech Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Advanced Technology Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners, Arancia.

Westinghouse Plasma Corporation, Alter Nrg Corp., GM, Regen International, Total S.A., Blackstone Cleantech Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Advanced Technology Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners, Arancia, Fagen Inc.

Westinghouse Plasma Corporation, Alter Nrg Corp., GM, Regen International, Total S.A., Blackstone Cleantech Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Advanced Technology Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners, Arancia.

Raipur (Chattisgarh), India

Municipal waste, construction debris, used tires, animal waste, agricultural waste

lignocellulosics; straw, wood, dried silage, organic residues

Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

Daishowa Marubeni International Inc. pelletized lignin combustion Peace River, AB thermal energy, electricity black liquor, lignin Peace River, ABDanieli Ambiente SRL updraft co-current fixed bed gasification Udine, Italy thermal energy, syngas, electricity ?Danish Technical University two stage gasifier (0.017 Mwe) Viking, Denmark thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood chips Viking, Denmark 2002Danson's Group wood pelletization Slave Lake, AB wood pellets waste woodDapp Generating Station (Verdant Energy Ltd.) bubbling fluidized bed gasification oerhead six combustion zones + steam 17MW Westlock, Alberta thermal energy, electricity waste wood Westlock, Alberta 1998 500 ktaDasagren Renewable Energy Netpro Gasifier & Jenbacher engine Zuerich, Switzerland thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood or cofired with dieselDecker Manufacturing Ltd. high energy efficiency boilers Decker, Manitoba thermal energy wood, pelletsDedini Industrias de Base Rapid (organosolv) Hydrolysis Piracicaiba, SP, Brazil ethanol, lignin bagasse Sao Luiz SugarDiamond Green Diesel LLC Houston, Texas renewable diesel Norco, Louisiana 2013 Darling International Inc.;Valero Energy Corp.Dow Chemical Company syngas catalyst Worldwide ethanol wood waste, corn stover National Renewable Energy LaboratoryDrayton Valley Power Ltd. low and high temp. gasification + steam turbine - standardized fluidized bed (12MW) Drayton Valley, Alberta electricity waste wood, OSB trimmings Drayton Valley, Alberta 1996 Verdant EnergyDuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC (DDCE) hydrolysis, fermentation Wilmington, DW ethanol bagasse, corn stover, switchgrass Vonore, Tennessee Dec. 2009Dwap Energy, Inc. Thermonertia Microwave Gasification Alpha - Omega Environmental Inc.Dynamotive Energy Systems Corp. fast pyrolysis Vancouver, BC BioOil, char, thermal energy, electricity waste wood Guelph, ON April, 2007 66 kta Evolution Biofuels, MitsubishiDynamotive Energy Systems Corp. fast pyrolysis Vancouver, BC BioOil, char, thermal energy, electricity waste wood West Lorne, ON April, 2007 33-43 kta Erie Flooring and Wood ProductsDynamotive Energy Systems Corp. fast pyrolysis Vancouver, BC BioOil, char, thermal energy, electricity, jet fuel Eucalyptus Australia Renewable Oil Corporation, Virgin Australia, GE

Earthanol, Inc. ? Irvine, CA ethanol waste wood & agricultural biomass

ECN Petten, Netherlands Bio-syngas or green natural gas Petten, Netherlands 2011 1.8 kta

ECN Petten, Netherlands Bio-syngas or green natural gas Alkamaar, Netherlands 2016 HVC

Eden River / Otaka Energy waste woodE.I. du Pont Company lignocellulosic fermentation Wimington, Delaware Bio-PDO (1,3 propanediol) lignocellulosic, straw, corn stover Loudun, TN Fall 2007 45 kta Tate & Lyle Bioproducts Co.E.I. du Pont Company Wimington, Delaware Ethanol, electricity lignocellulosic, straw, corn stover 30 kta Renewable Energy Laboratory

E.I. du Pont Company Dupont Biotech Wimington, Delaware Biobutanol UK 2007 BP PLC, British Sugar, POETEisenmann Corporation Pyrobuster Crystal Lake, Illinois waste reduction sewage sludgeElektrownia Stalwoa Wola gasification syngas, thermal energy, electricity forest wastes, biocarbon Stalowa Wola, Poland

Elementa Group gasification syngas forest residue Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

Emerging Fuels Technology catalyst development research Tulsa, Oklahoma syngas

Emery Energy Company ? gasification Salt Lake City, UT syngas, electricity, ethanol, methanol, hydrogen, F-T fuels Salt Lake City, UT 2004 90 ktaEMPA downdraft gasifier thermal energy, syngas, electricity lignocellulosics Duebendorf, Switzerland 2012 EKZ / WoodpowerEna Kraft vibrating grate boiler thermal energy, electricity bark, sawdust, waste wood Enkoping, Sweden

Enecon ? gasification charcoal, thermal energy, syngas, electricty waste wood, agricultural residues

Energos AS - Ener.G Energos gasification or pyrolysis Heimdal, Norway syngas, thermal energy, electricity Municipal Waste Wood, waste wood BioGen PowerEnergex Pellet Fuel wood pelletization Lac-Megantic, QC wood pellets waste wood

Energreen Power Ltd. open-top down draft, re-burn gasification Chennai, TN, India thermal energy, electricity Indian Institute of ScienceEnergie Vernunfitig Nutzen (EVN) fixed bed gasification (0.18 MWe) Austria Eckenforde, Germany 2001

Energy Products of Idaho fluidized bed staged gasification Coeur d'Alene, ID thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood Klamath Falls, Oregon

Energy Quest Inc. pyrolysis steam reforming (hydrogen technology) fluidized bed gasifier Henderson, Nevada thermal energy, syngas, hydrogen, CO2 Alberta Syngas Energy Corp.

ENERKEM Technologies Inc. Montreal, QC Sherbrooke, QC 2003 pilot

ENERKEM Technologies Inc. Montreal, QC Westbury, QC Jan. 2009 12 kta

Enerkem Alberta Biofuels LP Montreal, QC Edmonton, AB 2011 100 kta

ENERKEM Corp. Montreal, QC Pontotoc, Mississippi 2010 100 kta Three Rivers Solid Waste Management Facility

TransAlta Utility Corporation, Verdant Energy Ltd.

Pirassunga, Sao Paulo State

Genencor, University of Tennessee, Genera Energy LLCColorado Springs,

Coloradosyngas, thermal energy, electricity, ethanol, methanol, syndiesel

Agricultural waste, forestry waste, cellulose

@Ventures, Nth Power, Sail Venture Partners, Calvert Funds, CMGI Inc., Modus Link

MILENA atmospheric air blown downdraft research gasifier, OLGA tar removal, syngas methanation

coal, wood, waste wood, straw, willow

MILENA atmospheric air blown downdraft research gasifier, OLGA tar removal, syngas methanation

coal, wood, waste wood, straw, willow

acetate gasification; fluidized bed gasification; fixed bed, updraft, atmospheric gasification and organic methanogen reactor

thermal energy, syngas, electricity, methanol, green natural gas, ethanol

Saccharification & Zymomonas mobilis bacterium fermentation

sugar cane, sugar beets, corn, wheat, cassava grasses, straw, corn stalks

Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE)

methanol, ethanol, higher alcohols, aldehydes, ketones and olefins

municipal waste, agricutrural waste, waste wood

Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia

Casuarina, Eucalyptus, coconut shell, rice husk, cashew nut shell

Klamath Falls Bioenergy LLC, Northwest Energy Systems Co. LLC

wood chips and/or any carbonaceous fuel

autothermal bubbling fluidized-bed gasification (air blown and oxygen-enriched) & catalytic synthesis

snyngas, thermal energy, electricity, hydrogen, methanol, ethanol, methyl acetate, ethyl acetate

forest and agricultural residues, waste products, municipal solid waste; hydro poles

Greenfield Ethanol Inc., BIOSYN Process, Afina Energy Inc., Weatherford International, University of Sherbrooke



forest and agricultural residues, waste products, municipal solid waste; hydro poles

Greenfield Ethanol Inc., BIOSYN Process, Afina Energy Inc., Weatherford International



waste products, municipal solid waste, straw

Greenfield Ethanol Inc., BIOSYN Process, Afina Energy Inc., Weatherford International,Valero Energy Corp., Waste Management, Rho Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures, Cycle Capital,Methanex Corporation



wood residues, municipal solid waste; agricultural residues

Eni gasification; Fisher-Tropsch catalysis agricultural waste, MSW Porto Torres, Itlay NovamontEnniskillen College downdraft co-current fixed bed gasifier Enniskillen, UK thermal energy, syngas, electricity dedicated cellulosic energy crops Enniskillen, UK 1992 Rural Generation Ltd.

ENSYN Renewables Inc. fast pyrolysis (RTP - Rapid Thermal Process) Wilmington, DL wood WI Feb., 2001 23 ktaENSYN Renewables Inc. fast pyrolysis (RTP - Rapid Thermal Process) Wilmington, DL BioOil, natural resins, syngas, thermal heat, electricity wood Ottawa, ON UOP LLC, Envergent Technologies LLC

fast pyrolysis (RTP - Rapid Thermal Process) Wilmington, DL BioOil, natural resins, syngas, thermal heat, electricity wood High Level, Alberta

ENSYN Renewables Inc. fast pyrolysis (RTP - Rapid Thermal Process) Wilmington, DL BioOil, thermal heat wood La Pass, Manitoba Enterprise RAUD downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification France thermal energy, syngas, electricity charcoal, wood, waste wood France 1983 Martezo

Entimos Ltd. high temperture dual gasifier Tervola, Finland thermal energy, electricity Kustas & Timo SaaresErin Consulting Pyromex Ultra-High Temperature Anaerobic Gasification Regina, SK snyngas, thermal energy, electricity, municipal waste Regina, SK

Eqtec Iberia Integrated Biomass Gasification CHP Barcelona, Spain snyngas, thermal energy, electricity, Etablissements Briolet downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification France thermal energy, syngas, electricity charcoal, wood, waste wood France 1987 Martezo

Etek Etanolteknik AB two step dilute acid hydrolysis and enzyme fermentation Ornskoldsvik, Sweden ethanol

EthanolPiloten i Sverige AB 2 step diluted acid & enzyme hydrolysis ethanol Ornskoldsvik, Sweden 2004Ethxx International steam reforming gasification and Fisher-Tropsch catalytic conversion Aurora, ON syngas, thermal energy, ethanol wood Pearson Technologies of Mississipi Inc.

Europlasma plasma arc gasification France syngas, electricity wood 2011

Evonik New Energies UK Ltd. biomass CHP Kent, England electricity, thermal energy waste wood Kent, England 160 kta

Expander Energy Inc. Syn-gas generator with proprietary Enhanced Fisher-Tropsch catalysis Edmonton, AB SynDiesel, SynJet Edmonton, AB WorleyParsons

FERCO ? gasification Norcross, GA thermal energy, syngas

downdraft gasifier 0.24 MWe 0.58 MWth thermal energy, syngas, electricity clean wood; clean wood, biomass Neumarkt, Austria 2008 Urbas Stahl&Anlagenbau, VÃ¶lkermarkt; Fiberight LLC pressurized steam gasification Catonsville, MD ethanol municipal solid waste Blairstown, Iowa Cleantech Biofuels Inc.Fiberight LLC pressurized steam gasification Catonsville, MD ethanol municipal solid waste Lawrencevill, Virgina Cleantech Biofuels Inc.

FICFB Güssing thermal energy, syngas, electricity lignocellulosics; wood chips Güssing, Austria 2002 25 kta Austrian Energy

FICFB Oberwart thermal energy, syngas, electricity lignocellulosics; wood chips Oberwart, Austria 2008 Ortner Anlagenbau

FICFB Villach thermal energy, syngas, electricity lignocellulosics; wood chips Villach, Austria

Firebox Energy Systems Ltd. Air Boiler Calgary, Alberta electricity, thermal energy Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation Reserve #133

Flambeau River Bioerefinery, LLC gasification & Fisher-Tropsch catalysis Park Falls, Wisconsin syngas, syndiesel, waxes Park Falls, WI 2012 350 kta

Flex Energies, Inc. Flex-Microturbine modular power plant demonstration Mission Viejo, CA thermal energy, electricity Santa Barbara, CAFlorida Biomass Energy circulating fluidized bed boiler electricity wood chips Bradenton, Florida

Florida Crystals Corp. ethanol, electricity wood waste, bagasse Okeelanta, FloridaFLS milj¢ a/s atmoshpheric circulating fluidized bed gasification Copenhagen, Denmark thermal energy, syngas, electricity waste wood, demolition debrisFluidyne Gasification small scale Pioneer Class charcoal gasifier New Zealand thermal energy, syngas charcoal Innovation Technologies (Ireland) Ltd.Foothills Forest Products wood pelletization Grande Cache, AB wood pellets waste wood

biomonomers, biolubricants, biofillers, biointermediates or additives, elastomers, bioplastics

BioOil, natural resins, syngas, thermal heat, electricity With J.V. Partner UOP renewable transportation fuels - green hydrocarbons

Red Arrow Products Company, Inc., UOP LLC, Envergent Technologies LLC

ENSYN Renewables Inc.(High North BioResources Limited Partnership)

High North BioResources Ltd. Partnership, UOP LLC, Envergent Technologies LLC, Tolko

UOP LLC, Envergent Technologies LLC. Mantoba Hydro, Tolko

wood chips, waste wood, municipal solid waste, non-food grains

pellets, wood chips, demolition wood, fruit pits

softwood residues, energy crops, canary grass

University of Umea; Technical University of Lulea

wood, bagasse, wheat straw, corn stover

University of Umea, Technical University of Lulea, SEKAB E-technology AB

Township of Chapleau, Ontario

Sunbay Energy Corp., PRM Energy Systems Inc., M&L Waste Management Ltd.

HES Biopower Ltd., Biomass Power Plant Ridham Ltd.

natural gas, low value hydrocarbons, petcoke, asphaltenes, bitumen residuals, waste wood, residual wood, MSW

wood, dedicated energy crops, demolition debris, sawdust, waste wood, wood chips, bark, charcoal, agricultural residues, rice husks

Fernwärme Neumarkt Biowärme – Öko Strom Ges.m.b.H. & Co.KG

FICFB steam gasification: fluidised bed into two zones, a gasification zone and a combustion zone. 2 MWe 4.5 MWth

FICFB steam gasification: fluidised bed into two zones, a gasification zone and a combustion zone combined with ORC system. 2.7 MWe 1-6 MWth

FICFB steam gasification: fluidised bed into two zones, a gasification zone and a combustion zone. 3.7 MWe 15 MWth

mountain pine beetle salvage, waste wood/residues

John W. Murray Biomass Plant, Glenevis, Alberta

kraft alcohol sulfite black liquor, forest residues, wood waste

American Process Inc., NewPage Corp.; ThermoChem Recovery International Inc, EfT, Earthtech AECOM, Miron Construction, Laurentian Engineering

waste wood, industrial waste, oilfield waste, municipal solid waste

West Palm Beach, Florida

Foster Wheeler Energia Oy updraft pressurized circulating fluidized bed (Pyroflow) gasification Varkaus, Finland thermal energy, syngas, electricity Varkaus, Finland 2009

Friedrich Wahl GmbH & Co. KG downdraft gasifier thermal energy, syngas, electricity waste wood, biomass 2009 Urbas Stahl&Anlagenbau, VÃ¶lkermarkt;

Frontline BioEnergy, LLC fluidized bed gasification Ames, Iowa thermal enrgy, ethanolFuel Cell Energy gasification & catalytic conversion Lakewood, CO syngas, thermal energy, ethanol woodFulcrum Bioenergy Inc. InEnTec’s Plasma Enhanced Melter ® (PEM) Gasification Bend, Oregon syngas, thermal energy, cellulosic ethanol, electricity municpal waste McCarran, Nevada 2013 90 kta Sierra Biofuels

Future Energy Resources Corporation FERCO Silvagas Process Norcross, GA syngas, thernal energy, electricity Burlington, Vermont McNeil Generation StationFuture Energy,GmbH ? gasification Freiburg, Germany thermal energy, syngas, electricity ?FVB Energy Inc. wood waste-fueled district heating Edmonton, Alberta thermal energy waste wood Prince George, B.C.FVB Energy Inc. wood waste-fueled district heating Edmonton, Alberta thermal energy waste wood Beauval. SaskatchewanFVB Energy Inc. wood waste-fueled district heating Edmonton, Alberta thermal energy waste wood Ouje-Bougoumou, QC

FVB Energy Inc. wood waste-fueled district heating Edmonton, Alberta thermal energy waste wood & municipal solid waste Charlottetown, PEI 65 kta

Bubbling Fluidized Bed, wood waste-fueled district heating Västerås, Sweden thermal energy waste wood, peat, coal Sweden

G2BioChem hydrolysis, fermentation ethanol, lignin Chatham, Ontario demo

G4 Insights Inc. hydropyrolysis Burnaby, British Columbia methane forest biomass

Gainesville Renewable Energy Center biomass bioenergy, bubbling fluidized bed boiler Gainesville, Florida electricity Gainesville, Florida 2013Gasek Ltd small scale gasification Reisjärvi, Finland syngas, thermal energy, electricity - small scale wood chips & biomass wasteGestion Cyclofor Inc. harvest ,transport, compact forest residues La Sarre, Quebec wood residuesGazogen, Inc. rotary hearth downdraft gasifier East Calais, VT syngas, electricity biomassGenecor Spezyme Robust Starch Liquefaction enzyme ethanol cellulosic feedstockGenomatica, Inc. fermentation of cellulosic sugars or syngas San Diego, California 1,4 -butanediol (BDO) cellulosic sugars, syngas M&G (Gruppo Mossi & Ghisolfi),

Genotypes, Inc. cyanobacteria stabilized as organelles in yeast Pacifica, CA ethanol, photosynthetic organismsGevo biomass fermentation Dever, Colorado isobutanol Lanxess

Global Clean Energy Inc. steam reforming gasification Denver, Colorado syngas, thermal energy, electricity Municipal Soilid Waste GNS - Halle downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification Saale-Lochau, Germany thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood chips, demolition debris Saale-Lochau, Germany 2000 AHY Pyrogas Gorman Paper Mill Catalytic reforming of complex molecules ethanol paper sludgeGöteborg Energi AB Repotec indirect gasification Göteborg, Sweden bio-syngas, bio-methane wood residues Gothenburg, Sweden 2012Græsted Fjernvarme staged open core gasifier 0.090 MWe; 0.200 MWth thermal energy, syngas, electricity lignocellulosics; wood chips Græsted, Denmark Grande Prairie Ecopower Center combined heat & power (combustion), central public heat Grande Prairie, AB thermal energy, electricity waste wood Grande Prairie, AB May, 2006 ? Canfor, Canadian Hydro, AquateraGranules de la Mauricie wood pelletization Shawinigan Sud, QC wood pellets waste woodGranules wood pelletization Saint Felicien, QC wood pellets waste woodGraphic Packaging International Inc biomass boiler Macon, Georgia electricity harvest residues Macon Georgia 400 kta

Greenwood Fuels LLC pelletizing waste paper Green Bay, Wisconsin paper pellets Libra Holdings

Goteborg Energi AB gasification & catalytic synthesis & combined heat and power Goteborg, Sweden syngas, methanol, thermal energy, electricity forestry residues Rya, Sweden 2012 75 kta

GTI Gas Technology Institute Carbona gasification, Velocys Fisher-Tropsch catalysis synfuels wood Des Plaines, IL 2010 8.4 kta

Guascor North America co-generation, gasification Vitora, Spain synga, electricityGulf Coast Energy, Inc. gasification Livingston, Alabama syngas, ethanol, syndiesel sawdust, waste sawlog Mossy Head, Alabama Aug., 2008

wood, dedicated energy crops, demolition debris, sawdust, waste wood, wood chips, bark

Lahden Lampovoima OY, Varnamo, Portocel Tejo S.A., Lid, Vilhemena, Norrsundet Bruk AB, Karlsborg, Kannkaapa Kaukolampo Oy, Kempeleen Lampolaitos, Neste Oil / Neste Jacobs, Stora Enso, Foster Wheeler, VTT, Kauhajoen Lampohuolto Oy, Bioneer Oy, Parkanon Lampo Oy, Kiteen Lampo Oy, Jalasjarven Lampo Oy, Ilomantsin Lampo Oy, Wisa Forest, Varkaus

Sulzbach-Laufen, Germany

corn stalks, wood chips, forestry residues, wheat straw, grasses, rice husks

forest residue, municipal solid waste, agricultural waste, energy crops

FVB Energy Västerås

corn cobs, corn stover, bagasse, sorghum, wood chips

GreenField Ethanol, Novozymes, Andritz and Harvest Technologies

TSS Consultants, California Energy Commission

harvest residues, precommercial thinnings

Rayonier, American Renewables, Fagen Inc., Zachry Engineering Corp., Wolf Material Handling Systems, Wood Resources Recovery, Bioresource Management Inc.

light,CO2, H2O, trace minerals, andglycolytic pond production

Salaberry-De-Valleyfield, Quebec

waste paper, paper mill sludge, non-recyclable corrugated containers, poly-laminated films, process trim waste

GoBiGas - Gothenburg Biomass Gasification Plant

Carbona, VTT, Velocys Fisher Tropsch Technology, UPM

rice husks, olive cake from olive pressing, wood chips

Gulf Ethanol Corp. vortex implosion disintegrator technology Houston, TX ethanol powdered cellulose Microbac Laboratories, Meridian BiorefiningGV Energy Inc. oxygen blown gasification Calgary, Alberta Dimethyl Ether (DME) forest residue Terrace, BC

H2Herten GmbH thermal energy, syngas lignocellulosics Herten, Germany demo Blue Tower GmbH, DresdenHarmac Nanimo, Brtish Columbia ethanol, methanol black liquorHEH Holzenergie fixed bed downdraft gasifier, air blown thermal energy, syngas, electricity lignocellulosics; Pfalzfeld, Germany demo Mothermik CHP Technology GmbHHerning Vaerket cofiring thermal energy wood chips & natural gas Herning, Denmark

Heuristic Enginering Inc. downdraft co-current fixed bed and updraft counter-current fixed bed gasification Vancouver, BC thermal energy, syngas, electricityHFTA University of California Forest Products Lab dilute nitric acid hydrolysis Livermore, CA sugars, ligninHM3 Energy torrefaction Gresham, Oergon torrified biomass briquettes, TorrB Biomass Pellets wood waste Prineville, Oregon 2013 45 kta

Holzstrom GmbH downdraft gasification 0.3 MWe 0.62 MWth thermal energy, syngas, electricity Neunkirchen, Austria 2011 Urbas Stahl&Anlagenbau, VÃ¶lkermarkt;

Holzstrom aus Nidwalden 2-zone downdraft Pyroforce gasifier 1.38 MWe 1.2 MWth thermal energy, syngas, electricity Stans, Switzerland 2007 Pyroforce

HoSt Engineering circulating fluidized bed gasification, Biogas, CHP, Boilers Hengelo, Netherlands syngas, thermal energy, electricity, methane waste or biomass, chicken manure Tzum, Netherlands 2006 demo

HS Energieanlagen GmbH heat pipe reformer, FB; allotherm, steam blown CHP 0.11 MWe 0.25 MWth thermal energy, electricity Hartl KG

Iberdrola Renewables cogneration CHP Portland, Oregon thermal energy, electricity Lakeview, Oregon 2011IBUS (Integrated Biomass Utilization System) mechanical dewatering, enzymatic liquefaction of cellulose and lignin Denmark ethanol, lignin Inbicon

ICM Inc. separate air zones and gas bypass duct oxygen-blown gasifer Colwich, Kansas syngas, thermal energy, electricity Newton, Kansas 2009 70 kta

Inbicon hydrothermal pretreatment, high gravity enzymatic hydrolysis, IBUS process Fredericia, Denmark ethanol, electricity, C5 molasses, lignin pellets Straw Fredericia, Denmark 2003 Pilot 1 0.8 kta

Inbicon hydrothermal pretreatment, high gravity enzymatic hydrolysis, IBUS process Fredericia, Denmark ethanol, electricity, C5 molasses, lignin pellets Straw Fredericia, Denmark 2005 Pilot 2 8.4 kta

Inbicon hydrothermal pretreatment, high gravity enzymatic hydrolysis, IBUS process Fredericia, Denmark ethanol, electricity, C5 molasses, lignin pellets Straw Kalundborg, Denmark 2009 30 kta

InEnTec, LLC (Integrated Environmental Technologies) Plasma Enhanced Melter (PEM) - plasma gasification Bend, Oregon syngas, thermal energy, electricity MSW Reno, Nevada 87.5 kta Waste Management Inc., S4 Energy Solutions

INEOS New Planet BioEnergy LLC League City, Texas cellulosic ethanol, electricity Vero Beach, Florida 2012 105 kta

Innovative Energy Incorporated updraft pressurized gasification Fenton, Missouri syngas, electricity, biochar

Innovation Technologies (Ireland) Ltd. ITI-fluidyne Waste Wood Gasification syngas, thermal energy, electricity wood waste Fluidyne Gasification

Integrated Environmental Technologies LLC (InEnTech) plasma enhanced melter (PEM) - gasification Idaho municipal waste Bend, OregonInternational WoodFuels LLC pellets, pellet boilers and silos Portland, Oergon thermal energy

Iogen Biorefinery Partners & LLC Arlington, VA ethanol, lignin Shelley, ID 245 kta DOE

Iogen Corporation Ottawa, ON ethanol, lignin Ottawa, ON 2004 demo 10.5 kta http://www.iogen.ca/

Iogen Corporation Ottawa, ON ethanol, lignin Birch Hills, Saskatchewan 2011 460 kta SDTC

Iogen Corporation Ottawa, ON ethanol, lignin, electricity cereal straw Prince Albert, Saskatche Domtar, Royal Dutch Shell

Iowa State University biochemical, thermochemical and bioprocessing research Boone, Iowa ethanol, F-T liquids, biodiesel, pyrolysis oils Boone, Iowa 2009 1.75 ktaJF Ventures charcoal pyrolysis plant Victoria, BC charcoal, syngas, bio-oil, thermal energy sawdust Coal Harbour, BCJulio Berkes SA ? gasification Montevidio, Uruguay thermal energy, syngas, electricity ?Kara Energy Systems B.V. fixed bed gasification & steam turbine Almelo, Netherlands thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood Shell Renewables

Staged reforming gasification; separate gravity driven moving bed reactors; allotherm; ceramic balls as heat carrier; steam blown power generation (gas engine) and H2 production (up to 150m3/h); ORC plant for waste heat utilization

wood, dedicated energy crops, demolition debris, sawdust, waste wood, wood chips, bark, rice husks, agricultural residues

lignocellulosics; waste wood, clean wood, biomass

lignocellulosics; dried chips from demolition wood

Alstom Power, University of Stuttgart, TU Delft and the Royal Technology Insitut of Sweden

lignocellulosics; Waste Wood, Clean Wood

Neufahrn bei Freising, Germany

FireWise thinnings, harvest and mill wood wastes

stover, straw, bran, wood chips, bark, municipal waste

Copenhagen University, Risø DTU National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Dong Energy



two stage oxygen-blown gasification and syngas Clostrium ljungdahlii fermentation 6 MWe

municipal waste, straw, wood residues

INEOS Bio, New Planet Energy, EPC firm AMEC

wood, municipal solid waste, ag residue, energy crops, plastics, tires, shingles and paper

Ballycarry, Northern Ireland

syngas, ethanol, methanol, electricity, hydrogen, glass, metal

Lakeside Energy, Zeus Development Corp., Dow Corning, Sierra Biofuels, Fulcrum BioEnergy Inc., Kawasaki Heavy Industry

steam explosion/dilute acid hydrolysis, multi-stage enzymatic saccharification and Trichoderma reesei fermentation

wheat straw, barley straw, corn stover, switchgrass, and rice straw Iogen Energy Corporation; Iogen Corporation; Goldman Sachs; and The Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Codexis Inc.


corn stover, switch grass, elephant grass, wheat/oat/barley straw, bagasse, hardwood chips

Royal Dutch Shell Group, Petro-Canada, Goldman Sachs.


corn stover, switch grass, elephant grass, wheat/oat/barley straw, bagasse, hardwood chips

Royal Dutch Shell Group, Petro-Canada, Goldman Sachs.


lignocellulose, grains, oilseeds, glycerine

http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2006/05/golman_sachs_in.html

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe, Germany DME, diesel, gasoline lignocellulosics Karlsruhe, Germany 2012 4.2 ktaKemestrie's Inc. - BIOSYN atmospheric bubbling fluidized bed gasification Sherbrooke, QC thermal energy waste wood Sherbrooke, QC 1995Kibæk CHP 3 MWe 6 MWth thermal energy, electricity waste wood; wood chips Kibæk, Denmark Aaen Consulting Engineers

KiOR fast pyrolysis, Fluid Catalytic Cracking Pasadena, Texas waste wood, wood chips Columbus, Mississippi 175 kta

KiOR fast pyrolysis, Fluid Catalytic Cracking Pasadena, Texas waste wood, wood chips Newton, Mississippi 525 kta

KL Energy Corporation enzyme fermentation Rapid City, WY ethanol, thermal energy waste wood Prairie Green Renewable Energy

KL Energy Corporation enzyme fermentation Rapid City, WY ethanol, thermal energy waste wood, cardboard, paper Upton, WY 2007 33.5 ktaKlagenfurt FICFB CHP 5.5 MWe thermal energy, electricity lignocellulosics Klagenfurt, Austria

KMW Energy Inc. complete combustion London, Ontario thermal energyKokemäki forced flow fixed bed gasifier 1.8 MWe 3.1 MWth thermal energy, syngas, electricity waste wood, clean wood, msw Kokemäki, Finland 2004 Condens Oy, VTT Kvaerner Pulping AB Power Division atmospheric circulating fluidized bed gasification Gothenburg, Sweden thermal energy, syngas, electricity barkKWE GmbH Cement Plant circulating fluidized bed gasifier Rudersdorf, Germany thermal energy, syngas biomass Rudersdorf, Germany 1995

Kwikpower International downdraft gasifier Toronto, ON thermal energy, syngas, electricity UTEKLa Crete Sawmills Lltd. wood fuel (combustion) La Crete, AB wood pellets hog fuel La Crete, AB January, 2003 35 kta

Lahden Lampovoima Oy circulating fluidized bed gasifier thermal energy, electricity Lahti, Finland

Lahti Energia Oy atmospheric circulating fluidized bed Foster Wheeler gasifier 40-90 MWth syngas, thermal energy Lahti, Finland 1998 Foster Wheeler, Kymijärvi power stationLakewood Industries wood pelletization Ear Falls, ON wood pellets waste woodLangs Dehy wood pelletization Palmerston, ON wood pellets waste woodLanzaTech NZ Ltd. syngas fermentation Glenbrook, New Zealand ethanol syngas, industrial effluents BlueScope SteelLauzon Recycled Wood Energy wood pelletization Papineauville, QC wood pellets waste woodLauzon Recycled Wood Energy #2 wood pelletization St Jean-Sur-Richelieu, QCwood pellets waste wood

Licella Pty Ltd Catalytic Hydro Thermal Reactor (Cat-HTR) Melbourne, Australia bio-crude oil, aviation biofuel wood Pilot 2008

LignoBoost AB lignin extraction from black liquor Stockholm, Sweden lignin fuel, thermal energy, electricity black liquor Backhammer, Sweden Dec., 2006

Lignol Energy Corporation organosolvent based hydrolysis, enzymatic saccharification and fermentation Vancouver, BC ethanol, high purity lignin, acetic acid, furfural, xylose Burnaby, B.C. 2010 pilot 0.35 kta http://www.lignol.ca/

Lignol Innovations Inc. organosolvent based hydrolysis, enzymatic saccharification and fermentation Berwyn, PA ethanol, high purity lignin, acetic acid, furfural, xylose alder, aspen, poplar and cottonwood Ferndale, WA 35 kta

Liquid Lignin Company, LLC (LLC²). Sequential Liquid-Lignin Recovery & Purification (SLRP) lignin black liquorLockheed Martin wood fired boilers thermal energy, electricity sawdust, wood chips, bark Owega, New York

Losunoco, Inc. two-stage dilute acid hydrolysis and fermentation & CO2 capture Fort Lauderdale, FL Ethanol, CO2,lignin, electricty

Lurgi Energi & Umwelt GmbH ; Lurgi/Essent Memphis, TN lignocellulosics; demolition wood 2005 150 kta

Maine BioProducts Biofine levulinic acid technology lignocellulose

Mantria Industries LLC reactor carbonization (pyrolysis) biochar soil additive treee waste Carbon Diversion Inc.

pulse enhanced steam-reformer gasification Baltimore, Maryland electricity, syngas, thermal energy black liquor, paper mill sludge Big Island, VA ThermoChem Inc., StonChem, Georgia-PacificMartezo Renewable Energy countercurrent gasifier Poitiors, France thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood, agricultural wasteMarubeni Sustainable Energy, Inc., wood combustion San Diego, California thermal energy, electricity wood Springfield, NHMarwood wood pelletization Tracyville, NB wood pellets waste wood

Fast pyrolysis, high pressure entrained flow gasification, hot gas cleaning, DME- and gasoline-synthesis

Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe eV; Ministerium fÃ¼r ErnÃ¤hrung und lÃ¤ndlichen Raum Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg (MLR); Chemieanalgenbau Chemnitz GmbH; Lurgi Gmbh, Mut GmbH

Re-Crude™ bio-oil; bio-gasoline, renewable diesel, naphtha, kerosene, distillate, fuel oil

Khosla Ventures, KBR, Bioecon, Catchlight, Hunt Refining

Re-Crude™ bio-oil; bio-gasoline, renewable diesel, naphtha, kerosene, distillate, fuel oil

Khosla Ventures, KBR, Bioecon, Catchlight, Hunt Refining

Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

biomass fuel, agricultural waste, wood waste, sludge, municipal solid waste

wood chips, peat, municipal solid waste

sawdust, waste wood, municipal waste

lignocellulosics; wood chips, wood waste, plastic waste

Gosford, New South Wales, Australia

Ignite Energy Resources Pty Ltd, Norske Skog Australasia, Applimex Pty. Ltd., Zymotech Consulting Pty. Ltd., Martin Place Securities, Virgin Australia

STFI-Packforsk, Chalmers, Sodra, Storan Enso, Fortum, Nordic Paper, Swedish Energy Agency, Weyerhaeuser, Metso Power - new owner

hardwood or softwood residues, and agricultural residues

GE, Repap, Suncor Energy Products Inc., Oak Ridge National Lab, UBC, Forintek, Suncor Energy, Weyerhaeuser, HA International, PPG Industries, Huntsman

Charleston, South Carolina

straw, bagasse, corn stover, waste wood, agricultural waste

atmospheric circulating fluidized bed gasification, Lurgi Reformer, Geminox Process 30 MWe

hydrogen, syngas (MegaSyn), butanediol, gas-to-chemicals, gas-to-synfuels, syngas production and purification, thermal energy, electricity

Geertruidenberg, Netherlands

Amer Power Station, Lurgi Pilot CFB, Zudersdorf Zement

levulinate fuels - esters using ethanol, methanol. butanol, or mixed alcohols, formic acid, furfural, lignin char; biochemicals

Sequatchie County, Tennessee

Manufacturing and Technology Conversion International, Inc.(MTCI)

Masada (Oxynol) Resource Group, LLC concentrated sulphuric acid hydrolysis and fermentation - CES OxyNol Process Birmingham, AL ethanol, gypsum, lignin and fly ash municipal waste, waste paper Middletown, NY

Mascoma Corporation Lebanon, NH ethanol Rome, NY 2003 1.75 kta http://www.mascoma.com/welcome/index.html

Mascoma Corporation - Frontier Renewable Resources Lebanon, NH ethanol 2013 245 kta http://www.mascoma.com/welcome/index.html

Mascoma Corporation Lebanon, NH ethanol deciduous wood Drayton Valley, Alberta

Mascoma Corporation Lebanon, NH ethanol Cancelled http://www.mascoma.com/

Maverick Biofuels Inc. gasification, Fisher-Tropsch catalysis Chapel Hill, North Carolinaethanol, propanol and butanol biomass, MSW pilotMcTara Lumber wood pelletization Sheet Harbour, NS wood pellets waste woodMegaKone Oy 30 kw to 500 kw heating stations Hellanmaa, Finland thermal energy wood pelletsMenag Group (formerly Xylowatt)

Mercurius Biofuels Ferndale, Washington furfural, renewable diesel, bio-jet, bio-chemicals sawdust PNNL, Whole Energy FuelsMeridian Biorefining Corporation hydrolysis and fermentation ethanol, biodiesel, electricity Gulf Ethanol, Corp.; Dedini SAMessersmith Manufacturing Inc. industrial combustion systems Bark River, MI thermal energy wood chips, sawdust, bark, peat

Metso Power bubbling fluidized bed, circulating bed and recovery boilers thermal energy 200 + projects

Metso Power circulating fluidized bed gasification; syngas in coal boiler syngas, electricity Vaasa, Finland Dec. 2012

MHG Systems Ltd http://www.mhgsystems.com

MondoVerde Biofuels Raleigh, NC carbon based biomass

Mossi & Ghisolf - Chemex Italia enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation cellulosic ethanol Tortona, Piedmont, Italy 2009 0.2 kta Novozymes

Mossi & Ghisolf - Chemex Italia enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation cellulosic ethanol Piedmont, Italy 2011 160 kta Novozymes

Mossi & Ghisolf - Chemex Italia enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation - PROESA process cellulosic ethanol, lignin, power, bio-BDO Crescentino, Italy 2012 Novozymes, Genomatica

M-real Hallein AG fermentation of evaporated sulfite spent liquor ethanol Hallein, Austria 2016 600 kta

Mustus Energy Ltd. bubbling fluidized bed combustion/gasification + low and high temp. steam turbine LaCrete, AB thermal energy, steam, 30 MW electricity LaCrete, AB Nov., 2009 320 kta

Myriant Technologies sugar fermentation sugars Lake Providence, La. PTT Chemical

Nakkila Konnepaja Oy 1-10 MW Heating Plants thermal energy wood residues, peat, bark, sawdust

Orange Recycling and Ethanol Production Facility

acetone-phosphoric acid hydrolysis, thermophilic simultaneous saccharification and fermentation - Consolidated BioProcessing - Cellulolytic Thermophile Clostridium thermocellum DSM1313 wood waste, paper sludge, switch

grass, corn stover

Royal Nedaco, Tamarack Energy Inc., General Motors Inc., Marathon Oil, Koshla Ventures, Genecor, Frontier Renewable Resources, J.M. Longyear; integrated with SunOpta BioProcess Inc.

acetone-phosphoric acid hydrolysis, thermophilic simultaneous saccharification and fermentation - Consolidated BioProcessing - Cellulolytic Thermophile Clostridium thermocellum DSM1313

wood waste, paper sludge, switch grass, corn stover

Kinrose Plant 1: Kinchelo, MI

Michigan State University, Michigan Tech., General Motors Inc., Marathon Oil, Koshla Ventures, Frontier Renewable Resources, J.M. Longyear, Chevron Technology Ventures, Atlas Venture, Flagship Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Pinnacle Financial Partners, and Vantage Point Venture Partners; integrated with SunOpta BioProcess Inc., Valero Energy

acetone-phosphoric acid hydrolysis, thermophilic simultaneous saccharification and fermentation - Consolidated BioProcessing - Cellulolytic Thermophile Clostridium thermocellum DSM1313acetone-phosphoric acid hydrolysis, thermophilic simultaneous saccharification and fermentation - Consolidated BioProcessing - Cellulolytic Thermophile Clostridium thermocellum DSM1313

wood waste, paper sludge, switch grass, corn stover

Monroe County,Tennessee

General Motors Inc., Marathon Oil, Koshla Ventures

acid hydrolysis – levulinic acid, formic acid, and the C5 sugars are converted to an aromatic aldehyde

wood chips, sawdust, bark, peat, demolition wood, sludge, wood residues, agricultural residues

wood residues; syngas co-fired with coal

Vaskiluodon Voima Oy; EPV Energia Oy; Pohjolan Voima Oy.

Expert services for business model improvement for bioenergy supply chains, information technology services; data management, supply chain management from stump or field to boiler/biofuel refinery, forest work and terminal process management

Mikkeli, Finland (Headquarters)

Bioenergy ERP; MHG Power, MHG Forest, MHG SMS, MHG Mobile, MHG Terminal, MHG Invoicing

industrial wood, forest residues, chips, pellets, agricultural residues, waste

Many commercial customers in various European countries

Energy companies: Vattenfall Kaukolämpö Oy, Kotkan Energia Oy,Savon Energia Oy Forest Associations: Itä-Häme and Kanta-Häme + Pirkka, Järvi-Savo, Roine Chipping and transport contractors: Factor Verde Ltd, Hakevelhot, Hakeyhtymä Kankaanmäki Oy, Kotimaiset Energiat Oy, Hakevuori Oy, Forest Service companies: the biggest one in Finland; Suomen Metsäpalvelu Oy + Matti Kukkola Oy, A.Tiikkainen Oy, Metsäenergia Meter Oy, Bio-Esme Oy Energy Cooperatives: Eno Energia Oy, Metsäenergia Oy, Municipalities: Mikkeli, Loppi

United Fuels Conversion Process: proprietary vacuum pyrolitic gasification and liquefaction process

hydrocarbon liquid fuels, methane synthetic gas, ash fertilizer

fibre sorghum, lignocellulose, corn stover, straw, wood



sulfite black liquor from spruce wood pulping

wood waste, hog fuel,salvage, aspen roundwood

Precision Lumber Inc., Ridgeview Mills Ltd., Chiptec Wood Energy Systems, Recycled Energy Development, Fuel Supply Co. Ltd.

high-value biobased chemicals, including succinic acid and D-lactic acid.

Nations Energy Corporation wood densification wood pellets Kamloops, B.C.N.A.W.W.T. & Marketing wood pelletization Sainte-Foy, QC wood pellets waste wood

Netpro Renewable Energy Netpro IISc Gasifier India thermal energy, syngas, electricityNewGen Fuel ethanol blending & distribution Poet, ICM, Crescent Oil

New Green Technologies Inc. Tampa, Florida syngas Enoch Reserve

New Page Corp. spent liquor pulse-enhanced steam reforming gasification; Fisher-Tropsch GTL Wisconsin Rapids, WI black liquor, wood Wisconsin Rapids, WI 2012 174 kta

Nexant Inc. deoxygenation of ethanol & biomass co-firing & gasification Washington, DC electricity, syngas, thermal energy agricultural & forestry residues ? ? ?Nexterra Energy Corp. Fixed bed, Updraft, Atmospheric Gasification Vancouver, BC thermal energy wood fuel Kamloops, BC May, 2006 48 kta Tolko

Nexterra Energy Corp. Fixed bed, Updraft, Atmospheric Gasification Vancouver, BC thermal energy wood fuel Victoria, BC June 2009 9 ktaNexterra Energy Corp. Fixed bed, Updraft, Atmospheric Gasification Vancouver, BC thermal energy and electricity wood fuel Columbia, SC mid 2007 90 kta University of South Carolina, Johnson ControlsNexterra Energy Corp. Fixed bed, Updraft, Atmospheric Gasification Vancouver, BC thermal energy, electricity wood fuel New Westminster, BC Kruger Products Ltd.

Nexterra Energy Corp. CHP: Fixed bed, Updraft, Atmospheric Gasification & Jenbacher Engines Vancouver, BC thermal energy, electricity wood fuel Vancouver, B.C. Nexterra Energy Corp. Fixed bed, Updraft, Atmospheric Gasification Vancouver, BC thermal energy wood fuel Missoula, Montana

NextStep Biofuels ? Gretna, Nebraska cellulosic ethanol Alabama/Arkansas 500 kta The Price Companies Inc.

Nipawin Biomass Ethanol New Generation Co-operative Ltd. gasification and catalysts Nipiwan, SK ethanol ? ? 150 ktaNorampac bubling fluidized bed steam reformation gasification black liquor Trenton, Ontario Sept., 2003 Georgia pacific, TRI

Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC) & Novi Energy bioenergy South Boston, Virginia electricity waste wood South Boston, Virginia 250-550 ktaNorthlands Forest Products combined heat and power - Organic Rankine Cycle Ft. McMurray, AB thermal energy, electricity waste wood, hog fuel Ft. McMurray, AB ? 50 kta Bios Bioenergiesysteme GmbHNorthwind Ethanol Inc. acid hydrolysis and Gaian Starch Process Vancouver, BC cellulosic ethanol, lignin cellulosic material Prince George, BC

Nova Fuels steam reformation gasification, catalytic sysnthesis Fresno, CA ethanol, methanol, syngas, thermal energy, electricity Medical lake, WA Therma-Flite

Nova Green Inc. Sherwood Park, AB ethanol, xylitol, lignin straw Killam, AB ? ?Npower Cogen Cogen Combined Heat and Power West Midlands, UK thermal energy, electricity biomassNRG Energy Inc. bioheat Princeton, New Jersey switchgrass Louisiana Cancelled

NSE Biofuels Oy fluid bed gasification, tar reformer, Fisher-Tropsch Catalysis syngas, electricity, biofuels, F-T liquids lignocellulosics; forest residues Varkaus, Finland 2009 210 kta

NSE Biofuels Oy fluid bed gasification, tar reformer, Fisher-Tropsch Catalysis syngas, electricity, biofuels, F-T liquids lignocellulosics; forest residues 2016 100 ktaOmnifuel Technologies ? gasification Citrus Heights, CA thermal energy, syngas, electricity

Otoka Energy Inc. Eden River, Minnesota Drayton Valley, Alberta 2011 Phase IPacific BioEnergy Corporation pelletized wood Prince George, BC wood pellets waste wood

Pacific Ethanol Inc. concurrent saccharification and fermentation of pretreated biomass Fresno, CA ethanol, wet distilled grain, biogas, lignin Boardman, OR 2009 48.7 kta BioGasol ApS, Joint BioEnergy Institute

Paracell Inc., ParaCell Systems Tigney steam explosion technology Edmonton, AlbertaPaszner Technologies ACOS acid catalyzed organsolv saccharification, acidified aqueous acetone process Surrey, BC cellulosic ethanol, xylitol, lignin bagasse, waste woodPearson Bioenergy Technologies steam reforming gasification & proprietary Fisher-Tropsch catalysts Aberdeen, MS ethanol, syngas, electricity rice straw Aberdeen, MS 1999 11kta

Peat Resources Limited pelletized peat peat pellets peatPeregrine Energy Corp. biomass fuelled cogeneration thermal energy, electricity thinnings, harvest residues Hartsville, SC fall 2012 Sonoco

Cedarhurst Forestry Products Inc., Biosource Power Ltd.

Chatel St Denis, DesiPower Orchha (P) Ltd, IIT Delhi, Dewan Estate, DesiPower Mahanadi, Dev Power Corporation, G.B. Engg Enterprises (P) Ltd, DesiPower Baharbari, MVIT, . WSD, G.B Food Oils, V.I.T., Asembo Bay Project, Xylowatt, PSG College of Technology,

catalytic activated vacuum distillation pyrolisis gasification, plasma enhanced melter

pallets, railway ties, demolition wood, municipal waste, tires, algae

Green Energy Solutions, Inc., Enoch First Nation Band, Hatlar Group


TRI - ThermoChemical Recovery International, Inc.; Emerging Fuels Technology inc. Fisher-Tropsch; Clean Tech Partners; AMEC

Western Kentucky Energy and Primenergy, LLC

Dockside Green, Vancity. Terasen Gas, Corix, BC Hydro

General Electric Power & Water, University of BC, FPInnovations

woodchips, bark, pulpwood, wood waste

agricultural & forestry residues; municipal solid waste

AGB Technologies Inc, SaskEnergy and the Saskatchewan Research Council, Fulcrum Bioenergy, Taho-Industrial Center- Sierra Biofuels

agricultural & forestry residues, municipal waste

Tigney application of Mason steam explosion, Thermal Shockwave System (TTS) Process, Biomass Ethanol Separation Technology (BEST)

Neste Oil & Stora Enso JV, Foster Wheeler, VTT

Porvoo or Imatra, Finland Neste Oil / Neste Jacobs, Stora Enso, Foster Wheeler, VTT

fluidized bed gasification, methanogen reactor, acetogen, fermentation of acetate, lignin gasification and hydrogenolysis of ethanol

thermal energy, syngas, electricity, green natural gas, liquid transportation fuels

Energy Products of Idaho, ZeaChem, ADI Systems Inc., U.S. Energy Services, Weyerhaeuser, Caris & Co.,

wheat straw, wood chips, corn stover, poplar residues

xylitol, sorbitol, glucose, fructose, arabinose, manose, xylose, furfffural, lignin, cellulose

Aspen, wheat and barley straw, sugar cane bagasse, tobacco stalks, hardwoods

Stephenville, Newfoundland

Perfect Fusion Energy Corp. organosolv hydrolysis and fermentation Rossland, BC lignin, xylose, ethanol hardwood biomass 3.5ktaPetrobas acid hydrolysis Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ethanol castor bean cake, bagasse

PHG Energy LaVergne, Tenessee syngas bioamss and coal Gleason, TennesseePhoenix Energy pressurized downdraft gasification San Francisco, CA thermal energy, syngas, electricity waste woodPinnacle Pellet pelletized wood Quesnel, BC wood pelletsPinnacle Pellet #2 pelletized wood Williams Lake, BC wood pelletsPinnacle Pellet #3 pelletized wood Houston, BC wood pellets waste woodPinnacle Pellet #? pelletized wood Prince George, BC wood pellets waste wood Prince George Dunkley Lumber

Piroliza & Eco Energetica biomass steam turbine thermal energy, electricity wood chips

Plasco Energy Group plasma arc gasification Ottawa, On thermal heat, electricity, syngas, cementious alternatives Ottawa, ON Feb., 2007 66 kta NRC, HERA Holding of SpainPlasma2Energy microwave induced plasma gasification Edinburg, Texas syngas, synthetic oil MSW Monterrey, Mexico 51 kta Plasma Gasification Corporation

POET enzymatic hydrolysis ethanol, biogas, lignin, DDG Scotland, South Dakota 2008 pilot

POET enzymatic hydrolysis ethanol, biogas, lignin, DDG Emmetsburg, Iowa 2011 State of Iowa, Iowa Power Fund, U.S. DOE

POET & DuPont mild alkaline enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation Sioux Falls, SD ethanol corn stover, corn cob Emmetsburg, Iowa

Potlatch Corp. ? Gasification and Fisher Tropsch catalysis Spokane, WA syngas, electricity, biofuels, biochemicals wood residues, agricultural residues Cypress Bend, Arkansas Winrock International, University of Arkansas

Power Ecalene Fuels, Inc. downdraft gasifier with proprietary catalyst Lakewood, CO wood waste, algae PowerEnerCat, Esatman KodakPowerhearth fixed bed linear hearth downdraft gasification Australia? syngas, thermal energy, electricity biomass 3i Alternative PowerPowers Energy One gasification and fermentation Indiana ethanol municipal solid waste Lake County, Indiana INEOS Bio

Prairie BioGas Ltd. kiln gasifier Regina, Saskatchewan thermal heat, syngas, electricity Stettler, AlbertaPraj Industries gasification and enzyme hydrolysis Maharashtra, India syngas, ethanolPremimium Pellets Sales wood pelletization Vanderhooof, BC wood pellets waste wood

Price Biostock Sustainable Biostock Services Powell River, BC wood chips, bagasse, straw

Primenergy LLC atmospheric updraft gasifier & thermal oxidization Tulsa, OK thermal energy, syngas, electricity, ethanol Little Falls, MNPrince George Interior Waste to Energy pyrolysis bio-oil, bio-char harvest residues Prince George, BCPrinceton Cogeneration wood pelletization Princeton, BC wood pellets waste woodPRM Energy Systems Inc. open core fixed bed gasification Hot Springs, AK thermal heat, electricity, syngas, cementious alternatives agricultural residues, rice husks

Procede Group BV bio-chemical engineering Ensched, Netherlands

PROCETHL 2G mechanical, chemical, enzymatic, or thermal treatment research & development Pomacle, France ethanol lignocellulose Pomacle, France 2016

Proton Power, Inc. CHyP gasification Lenoir City, Tennesse syngas, hydrogen, thermal energy, electricity Puhdas Energia Oy downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification Tampare, Finland thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood

Purdue University West Lafayette, IN

Pure Energy Corp. Paramus, NJPure Lignin Environmental Technology Novel Catalytic Reactor Processs (NCRP) Kelowna, BC lignin, cellulose, sweet liquor wood Durango, Mexico

Pure Vision Technology Inc. dilute acid and alkali/dissolved oxygen and enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation Fort Lupton, CO wood, wheat straw, corn stover Fort Lupton, Co Dec, 2008 0.2kta Auburn UniversityPyroforce Swiss Energy Technology high temperature moving bed downdraft gasifier & Jenbachers Switzerland thermal energy, syngas, electricity waste wood, wood chips Nidwalden, SwitzerlandPyrogenesis Canada Inc. plasma gasifier Quebec syngas, electricity, slag Municipal Solid Waste Hurlburt Field, FloridaPyromex AG high temp gasification, portable Switzerland syngas waste biomass Germany

PYTEC Thermochemische Analagen GmbH Fast Ablative Pyrolysis Hamburg, Germany bio-oil, biochar, syngas wood 2005 pilot Pytrade Canada inc. pyrolysis, thermal energy bio-oil, electricity wood wste Kitimat, British Columbia

Pure Power Global Limmited, Community Futures Development Corporation of North Okanagan, Regional District of North Okanagan

downdraft sequential, co-current flow, gravity-assisted, thermo-chemical phase change reactor gasification

Motnica Kamnik, Slovenia


lignocellulose, corn fibre, corn cobs, corn stalks

lignocellulose, corn fibre, corn cobs, corn stalks

Deere and Company, Diversa Corporation, Michigan State University, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Ecalene (ethanol, methanol, butanol, propanol, hexanol, alcohol mix)

sewage waste, municipal solid waste, tires, waste wood

biomass sourcing, harvesting, drying, cutting, chipping, shredding, blending

Georgia-Pacific, NewPage, Weyerhaeuser, Range Fuels, Rayonier

wood waste, rice hulls, sewage sludge

glycerine - T butyl ether (GTBE fine particle diesel emissions reductions), vitrosol (H2S removal), biogas upgrading, styrene, solvent (CO2 capture)

ARD, IFP, INRA, LeSaffre, Champagne Cereales, TEREOS, TOTAL, ONF, CREDIT Agricole Du Nord Est, Unigrains, CGB

woody waste, agricultural by-products, and paper waste

Biocatalysis, metabolic engineering, bioreactor design and operation, purification of biological molecules, biomolecular engineering

PEC technology, two stage hydrolysis and fermentation and catalytic thermochemical conversion

thermal energy, lignin, electricity, organic acids, furans, aldehydes, esters

agricultural wastes, municipal waste, wood waste

ethanol, xylitol or furfural or a purified xylose, cellulose, lignin, electricity

Institute for Wood Chemistry of the Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products (BFH), CUTEC, TEC

Qteros (formerly SunEthanol) hydrolysis and fermentation - Clostridium Phytofermentans Hadley, MA ethanol 2009

Queensland University of Technology ethanol lignocellulose, bagasse 2010 pilot 0.17 kta

Radhe Renewable Energy Development Associate downdraft co-current fixed bed & open top updraft co-current fixed bed gasification Rajkot, India thermal energy, syngas, electricity

Radian Bioenergy Integrated Atmospheric Novus-G Gasification Combined Cycle; torrifed wood Salt Lake City, UT thermal energy, syngas, electricity, pellets

Radian Corp. atmospheric and pressurized integrated and combined cycle gasification Austin, TXRange Fuels, Inc. high temperture+high pressure anaerobic H20 shift gasification and catalytic synthesis Broomfield, CO syngas, ethanol, mixed alcohols, electricity waste wood Denver, Colorado 2008 K2A Optimization Plant

Range Fuels, Inc. high temperture+high pressure anaerobic H20 shift gasification and catalytic synthesis Broomfield, CO syngas, ethanol, methanol, electricity waste wood Soperton, GA 396 kta DOE http://www.rangefuels.com/

Rasmussen Mechanical Services Solid Fuel Fired Boiler Plants Sioux City, Indianna thermal energyRaven Biofuels International Corporation 2 stage dilute sulphuric acid hydrolysis, C5 to furfural and C6 to ethanol Paramus, New Jersey ethanol, electricity, furfural, lignin Beetle killed wood 175 kta Kamloops Indian Band, Spectrum Energy

Recovered Energy Resources Inc. Gat-Cycle updraft gasification thermal energy, syngas, electricityRenewable Fuel Technologies mobile torrefaction San Mateo, California biocoal harvest waste

Renewable Oil Corporation fast pyrolysis bio-oil, electricity wood residues and green waste 65 kta Enecon Pty Ltd., DynamotiveRenewable Oil International LLC fast pyrolysis Florence AL

Renmatix (formerly Sriya Innovations). Plantrose™ Process Kennesa, Georgia cellulosic biomass

Rentech Inc. SilvaGas Corp. gasification, wax slurry-iron catalyst Fisher Tropsch Los Angeles, California syngas, thermal energy, syndiesel, electricity Rialto, CaliforniaRentech Inc. SilvaGas Corp. gasification, wax slurry-iron catalyst Fisher Tropsch Los Angeles, California syngas, thermal energy, jet fuels, electricity woody biomass Port St. Joe, Florida 2013Rentech Inc. SilvaGas Corp. gasification, wax slurry-iron catalyst Fisher Tropsch Los Angeles, California syngas, thermal energy, jet fuels, electricity woody biomass Natchez, Mississippi Rialto Renewable Energy CenterRentech Inc. SilvaGas Corp. gasification, wax slurry-iron catalyst Fisher Tropsch Los Angeles, California syngas, thermal energy, jet fuels, naphtha, electricity woody biomass White River, Ontario 2015

Repotec Renewable Power Technologies gasification Umwelttechnik GmbH syngas forest residues Gothenburg, Sweden

Resource Optimization Technologies ORVERTER - high temperature incineration Winnipeg, Manitoba thermal energy, syngas, electricity Mesh Technologies Inc.Resource Recovery Corp. thermal anaerobic gasification Environeta Solutions IncResource Recovery Technologies, LLC Eden Prairie, MN

Rimbey, Town of Rimbey, AB syngas, thernal energy, electricity, ethanol, hydrogen straw, municipal waste, wood waste Rimbey, AB 2008 92 ktaRITE/Honda R&D Co. enzymatic saccharification and cornybacterium fermentation Kyoto, Japan ethanol soft biomassRoyal DSM N.V. yeast based fermentation succinic acid starch or cellulose Cassano Spinola, Italy Roquette Freres, Verdezyne, BPRob Walt downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification Littleton, CO thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood chips

RSE Pulp & Chemical, LLC fluidized bed gasification of hemicellulose extracts Old Town, ME ethanol Old Town, ME University of Maine, American Process Inc.

corn stalks, bagasses, woody biomass

ICM Investors, VeraSun, Battery Ventures, Camros Capital, LonRiver Venturees

soda pulping and ionic liquid based pretreatments, lignin reccovery, saccharification with enzymes, fermentation of hexoses: research

Mackay, Queensland, Australia

Mackay, Queensland, Australia

Smart State Sugarcane Biorefinery, Mackay sugar Limited, Sugar Research Limited, Viridian pty Ltd., Hexion

wood, waste wood, demolition debris, dedicated energy crops, bark, charcoal, agricultural residues

wood chips, refuse, agricultural waste

thermal energy, syngas, fuel cells, hydrogen, methane, syndiesel, ethanol, methanol

biomass, municipal waste, industrial waste, tires

2010 (closed

December 2011)

Merrick and Company; PRAJ Industries Ltd.; Western Research Institute; Georgia Forestry Commission; Yeomans Wood and Timber; Truetlen County Development Authority; BioConversion Technology; Khosla Ventures; CH2MHill; Gillis Ag and Timber, The Price Companies

wood, pellets, hog fuel, bio-oil, bio-gas

wood chips and sawdust, crop residues such as corn stover rice hulls, energy crops, forestry logging and thinning residues, coal fines,

Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia

C5 & C6 sugars & lignin; xylose monomers and glucose monomers

woody green waste and processed sewage sludge

Goteborg Energi, CTU - Conzepte Technik Umwelt, M+W Zander FE GmbH Repotec

wood blocks, sawdust, various plastics, flax shive, hog offal, beef offal, fish offal, beef spines, whole chicken carcasses, cardboard, rendering plant cracklings, whole infant hog mortalities, various fabrics, fiberglass and composite parts, asphalt shingles, tires, railway ties, waste oil and greases, old clothing and sports equipment, oil and cereal grain seeds, diapers, latex paint, coated electrical wire, household garbage, confidential office documents, landscape clippings, sludge

bubbling fluidized-bed gasification (air blown and oxygen-enriched) & catalytic synthesis

Aspen Bioenergy Corp., Enerkem Technologies

hemicellulose from woody biomass, mill residues

RTI International dual fluidized bed gasification, Fisher-Tropsch liquids research syngas, synfuels lignocellulose 2016 4.2 ktaRugged Biochar Innovations pyrolysis Twin Falls, Idaho biocharSavannah River Site boiler, steam electricity wood chips, tree residues 22 kta

Schwarze Pumpe Power Methanol Plant Synfining gasification & Syntroleum Fisher-Tropsch methanol, electricity GermanySEKAB Industrial Development AB dilute sulphuric acid and enzymatic hydrolysis of pulp liquor Ormskoldsvik, Sweden ethanol, electricity, lignin, thermal energy, chemicals wood chips, black liquor, bagasse Ormskoldsvik, Sweden 2011 IDUSEKAB Group (formerly Svensk Etanolkemi AB) dilute sulphuric acid and enzymatic hydrolysis of pulp liquor Ormskoldsvik, Sweden ethanol, electricity, lignin, thermal energy, chemicals wood chips, black liquor, bagasse Ormskoldsvik, Sweden 2014 Demo 1 DemocombineSEKAB Group (formerly Svensk Etanolkemi AB) dilute sulphuric acid and enzymatic hydrolysis of pulp liquor Ormskoldsvik, Sweden ethanol, electricity, lignin, thermal energy, chemicals wood chips, black liquor, bagasse Ormskoldsvik, Sweden 2016 Demo 2 commercial plantSermet Oy district heating, process heat and steam, combined heat and power (combustion) Finland thermal energy, steam, electricity wood chips, sawdust, bark, peat 3i Findland OyShaw Resources pelletized wood Shubenacadie, NS wood pellets waste wood Belledune, NB 75 ktaSilvaGas Corporation indirect gasification Atlanta, GA thermal energy, syngas Burlington, Vermont Battelle’s Columbus LaboratoriesSilvana Trading small scale pelleting systems thermal energy sawdust, shavingsSlough Heat & Power Gas Turbines, Gas Boilers, Steam Turbines, Fluidized Bed Boilers thermal energy, electricity waste wood Slough, Berkshire, UKSödra Cell Värö Pulp Mill Metso circultaing fluidized bed gasifier 35 MWth thermal energy, syngas lignocellulosics; bark Värö , Sweden 1987 Metso Power Oy, Juhani IsakssonSolar Turbines Incorporated mid-range industrial 1 to 15 MW gas turbines San Diego, CA electricity, combined cycle or separate thermal energy biomass syngas CaterpillarSolena Group Inc. gasification & Rentech F-T Washington, D.C. synthetic jet fuel, naptha, electricity waste biomass UK 2012 500 kta Rentech Inc. F-T processSouthern Research Institute Birmingham, AL syngas, liquid fuels Durham, NorthCarolina 2003 7 ktaSpectrum Energy B.C. ethanol, furfural mountain pine beetle salvageSRI Consulting Green Chemistry, Renewable Fuels, Biotechnology Consultant Menlo Park, CA Consulting Reports: Biochemicals,Technologies, BiofuelsStadwarme Lienz Produktions und VertriebsGmbH flue gas condenstation Organic Rankine Cycle CHP thermal energy, electricity bark, wood chips, sawdust Tyrol, AustriaStadtwerke Duesseldorf fixed bed downdraft gasifier, air blown 0.27 MWe 0.41 MWth thermal energy, syngas, electricity lignocellulosicsStadtwerke Konstanz GmbH downdraft gasifier 0.15 MWe 0.3 MWth thermal energy, syngas, electricity waste wood, biomass Konstanz, Germany 2011 Urbas Stahl&Anlagenbau, VÃ¶lkermarkt; Stadtwerke Ulm/Neu-Ulm FICFB; allotherm; steam blown; gas engine 4 MWe and ORC 0.6 MWe thermal energy, syngas, electricity Neu-Ulm, Germany 2011 demo 52 kta Repotec GmbH, GÃ¼ssingStandard Alcohol Company of America, Inc. ? gasification & fixed-bed methanization reactor Durango, CO Envirolene (mixed alcohol) agricultural waste New Energies LLCSteeper Energy Aps hydrofaction reactor (super critical water process) Copenhagen, Denmark syncrude oil biomass, lignite, peat Edmonton, AB 2010Stora Enso Fors Ltd. circulating fluidized bed thermal energy, electricity Fors, SwedenSuGanit Systems, Inc. ionic liquid enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation with catalysts Reston, Virginia ethanol biomass University of ToledoSumitomo Joint Electric Power Co., Ltd. Kawasaki biomass power station electricty wood Kanagawa Prefecture 180 kta JX Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationSummo Steel Corporation gasification Burlington, Ontario syngas, thermal energy, 30-150 KW electricity wood Spanner RE2 GmbHSundrop Fuels Inc. radiant partical reactor gasification Louisville, Colorado syngas, cellulosic gasoline biomassSunEthanol (now Qteros) Q microbe for C3 process for simultaneous hydrolysis and fermentation Marlborough, MA ethanol 2009

SunOpta BioProcess Group enzymatic hydrolysis & xylose + pentose yeast fermentation (Stake Process) Norval, ON ethanol, butanol, xylitol and dietary fiber ZhaoDong, China fall 2007 ? http://www.sunopta.com/bioprocess/SunOpta BioProcess Group enzymatic hydrolysis & xylose + pentose yeast fermentation (Stake Process) Norval, ON ethanol corn Varennes, QC March, 2007 ? http://www.sunopta.com/bioprocess/SunOpta BioProcess Group enzymatic hydrolysis & xylose + pentose yeast fermentation (Stake Process) Norval, ON ethanol corn Little Falls, Minnesota Cancelled integrated with Mascoma CorporationSunpine AB crude tall oil refinery and catalytic conversion to diesel Pitea, Sweden tal oil, syndiesel black liquor Chemrec, BioXylan, BioLimeSunTechnics Energy Systems (Pvt) Ltd ? gasification Bangalore, India ?Sur-Lite Corporation downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification Santa-Fe Springs, CA thermal energy, syngas rice husksSustainable Power Corp. (SSTP) proprietary catalytic process Baytown, TX biocrude (Vertroleum) non-food biomassSVG GmbH fixed--bed or Endrainet flow or British Gas-Lurgi gasification Spreetal, Germany syngas, electricity, methanol Sustec GroupSwan Biomass Company acid enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation Glen Ellen, IL ethanol, hydrogen , methane agricultural wastes, wood, biogasse Imperial Valley Biorefining LCSyncarb Energy Systems Inc. thermal anaerobic gasification syngas, electricty, thermal energy, carbon black wood waste, plastics, rubber, MSWSynGas Technology, LLC high pressure gasifier Minnesota cellulosic biomassSynGest Inc. oxygen blown expanding bed fluidized mode gasifier & syngas catalysis San Francisco, California ammonia corn cobs, railway ties Menlo, Iowa 2013 130 kta The Weitz Company

Syntec Biofuel Inc. gasifcation & catalytic synthesis, steam-methane reforming Vancouver, BC ethanol, methanol, n-butanol, n-propanolSynthesis Scanarc Plasma Technologies AB plasma gasification thermal energy, syngas Municipal Solid Waste Hofors, Sweden 1987 pilot 100 kta ScanArc Plasma Technologies AB

System Johansson Gasproducer (SJG) CCE-SJ Gasproducer syngas, thermal energy, electricity CARBO CONSULT & ENGINEERING (Pty) Ltd

Tahtsa Pellets Ltd. wood pellets Burns Lake, B.C. wood pellets, animal bedding wood Burns Lake, B.C. 80 kta Tahtsa Timber Ltd., Burns Lake Community Forest

Tall Oil Canada

Taurus Energy AB C5 & C6 yeast fermentation (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) Lund, Sweden ethanol agriculture and forestry waste Ornskoldsvik, Sweden.

Taylor Biomass Energy LLC Taylor Gasifier and steam reformation of syngas New York, NY waste wood, municipal solid waste Montgomery, NY Sept. 2009Tech V organic methanogen reactors green natural gas / methane syngas

Technical University of Denmark (DTU) separate hydrolysis / fermentation and anaerobic digestion research ethanol, biogas, lignin, hydrogen, methane lignocellulose, straw, corn fibre 2006 BioSystems, Cambi A/S, NovozymesTembec Chemical Group fermentation of spent sulphuric black liquor Temiscaming, Quebec ethanol sulphite black liquor Temiscaming, Quebec 2003 demo

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

North Carolina State University, University of Utah

Sustec industries Inc. and Syntroleum Corporation

forest residue, municipal solid waste, agricultural waste and energy crops

Fisher Tropsch & water-gas shift catalysts, syngas cleaning, carbon to liquids research

waste products, non-food based biomass, wood Raven Biofuels International Corporation, Pure

Energy Corporation

Arnsberg-Wildhausen, Germany

Biomass Engeneering Ltd., UK; Biomass Energiesyteme, Dortmund

lignocellulosics, waste wood, clean wood

bark, wood chips, wood pellets, sludge

Chesapeake NG Ventures Corp., Oak Investment Partnerscorn stover, switchgrass, sugar cane

bagasse, wood chips, recycled paper ICM Investors, VeraSun, Battery Ventures, Camros Capital, LonRiver Venturees

wheat straw, corn stover, grasses, oat hulls and wood chips

China Resources Alcohol Corporation; integrated with Mascoma CorporationGreenfield Ethanol; integrated with Mascoma Corporation

municipal solid waste, waste wood, coal

syngas, thermal energy, electricity, fertilizer, heating fuel, and renewable transportation fuels

biogas, wood waste and agricultural residues

Johannesburg, South Africa

Woodblocks, or Bio-Mass in hard compacted briquettes, sourced from forestry- and sawmill waste, agricultural Bio-Mass, invader bush and alien trees and plants

Pioneer Family Timber Partnership and Pinnacle Pellet

Sekab Group, Lund University, Chalmers Technical University

thermal energy, water gas shift equilibrium syngas, electricity

Abengo Bioenergy, Sud Chemie, O'Neil Inc., Sanders Brothers

Lyngby, Copenhagen, Denmark

Lyngby, Copenhagen, Denmark

Terrabon Bryan, Texas Bryan, Texas 2009 1.75 kta Texas A&M UniversityTez Enerji combined heat and power solutions, Stirling engines, microturbines thermal energy, electricity DTE Energy Technoogies, Menag GroupThermal Energy International Inc. FLU-ACE and DRY-REX waste heat recovery technology Ottawa, Ontario thermal energy pulp sludge Uniforet Mill, Quebec ForEverGreen Enrgy Inc.

Thermochem Recovery International, Inc. (TRI) MTCI Baltimore, MD wood chips Durham, NCThermo Conversions steam reforming gasification & catalysts Denver, CO syngas, thermal energy, electricity, ethanol Port of Toledo, OH Wiley Engineering, Pacific Renewable FuelsThermogenics Inc. updraft air-blown co-current fixed bed gasification Albuqurque, NM thermal energy, syngas, mixed alcohols wood ESP gas cleanning, Power Energy Fuels Inc.

Thermoselect SA fixed bed oxygen blown high temperature gasification Locarno, Switzerland Karlsruhe, Germany February, 1999 225 kta

Thermoselect SA fixed bed oxygen blown high temperature gasification Locarno, Switzerland Tokyo-Chiba, Japan Sept., 1999 100 kta Kawasaki Steel

Thermoselect SA fixed bed oxygen blown high temperature gasification Locarno, Switzerland Mutsu, Japan April, 2003 Mitsubishi

Thermoselect SA fixed bed oxygen blown high temperature gasification Locarno, Switzerland Ansbach, Germany 2003 75 ktaThermya TORSPYD torrefaction biocoal forestry residues Spain & France Grupo Lantec’s subsidiary Idema; LMK EnergyThree Dimensional Timberlands LLC pyrolysis biochar, biooil woody biomass Oregon’s Curry CountyTitan Clean Energy Projects Corporation Firefly slow pyrolysis Saskatchewan biochar, biooil, bioenergy agriculture and forestry residues Ag-West Bio Inc.

TK Energi AS 3 stage downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification Gadstrup, Denmark thermal energy, syngas, electricityTopell Energy BV Wood Torrefaction with TORBED compact or expanded bed reactor The Hague, Netherlands torrefied wood wood Netherlands 2011 60 kta Torftech Ltd.Torftech (Canada) Inc. Drying & combustion in TORBED compact or expanded or transport bed reactor Oakville, Ontario syngas, thermal energy biomass Mississauga, Ontario Pilot samples Process Research ORTECHTorftech Inc. gasification, TORBED compact or expanded or transport bed reactor Newbury UK syngas, electricity, thermal energy biomass Wroclaw, Poland Pilot samples MostosalTorftech Inc. gasification, TORBED compact or expanded or transport bed reactor Newbury UK syngas, thermal energy wood Netherlands 2007 8 kta Polow Energy SystemsTorftech Inc. gasification, TORBED compact or expanded or transport bed reactor Newbury UK syngas, thermal energy wood, straw Wroclaw, Poland 2010 12 kta MostosalTPS Termiska Processer AB atmospheric circulating fluidized bed gasification Nykoping, Sweden thermal energy, syngas, electricity woodTsa Keh Dene first Nation thermal energy, electricity wood waste

TRI - ThermoChemical Recovery International, Inc. spent liquor pulse-enhanced steam reforming gasification; Fisher-Tropsch GTL Baltimore, MD thermal energy, syngas, electricity, transportation fuels 1.4 kta

TRI - ThermoChemical Recovery International, Inc. spent liquor pulse-enhanced steam reforming gasification; Fisher-Tropsch GTL Baltimore, MD thermal energy, syngas, electricity, transportation fuels Park Falls, WI 350 kta

TRI - ThermoChemical Recovery International, Inc. spent liquor pulse-enhanced steam reforming gasification; Fisher-Tropsch GTL Baltimore, MD thermal energy, syngas, transportation fuels Wisconsin Rapids, WI 175 ktaTrillium FiberFuels, Inc. xylose utilization technology, iosmerization Corvallis, OR ethanol cellulosic feedstocks

TÜBİTAK MRC - ENERGY INSTITUTE - TURKEY Down draft fixed bed and circulating fluidized bed gasifier and pressurized fluidized bed gasifier research syngas, F-T liquids Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey 2013

UEM Group, Inc. COD Balanced Low Rate Anaerobic Digestion, biomethanisation reactors methane, electricity pulpmill sludge & waste water Whitecourt, Alberta 2012

Umwelt & Energietechnik GmbH ? gasification Frieburg, Germany thermal energy, syngas Frieburg, GermanyUniversity of Toledo air/oxygen free gasification with non‐catalytic steam second stage research thermal energy, syngas, renewable diesel waste wood Toledo, Ohio 2007 8.75 kta Red Lion BioenergyUOP, LLC UOP/ENI Ecorefining Process Des Plaines, IL syndiesel, green jet fuel, green gasoline biofeedstocks Des Plaines, IL ENSYN Renewables Inc.

UPM Helsinki, Finland syngas, biofuels wood Chicago, Illinois Gas Technology Institute

urbas Energietechnik downdraft gasifier 0.150 MWe; 0.3 MWth thermal energy, syngas, electricity Ruden , Austria 2001 Urbas Stahl&Anlagenbau, VÃ¶lkermarkt;

Valero Energy Corp. API’s proprietary biorefinery cellulosic fuels and chemicals pulpmill lignocellulose Tomaston, GeorgiaVanderwell Contractors wood fuel (combustion) Slave Lake, AB wood pellets hog fuel Slave Lake, AB ? ?Ventec Waste to Energy Ltd. downdraft co-current fixed bed gasifier Suffolk, UK thermal energy, syngas, electricity wood, demolition wood, waste wood

MixAlco technology: lime & oxygen pretreatment, acid from microganisms converted to carboxylate salts

ethanol, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, ethers, aldehydes, mixed alchols, aromatics, cyclic, olefins, gasoline, jet fuel, diesel

lignocellulose, municipal solid waste, sewage sludge, manure, agricultural residues, energy crops

atmospheric bubbling fluidized bed PulseEnhanced steam reforming gasification & catalytic conversion

thermal energy, syngas, electricity, ethanol. methanol. syndiesel, acetic acid

Southern Research Institute's Carbon 2 Liquids

thermal energy, syngas, electricity, hydrogen, methanol, ammonia

municipal solid waste, biomass waste

Thermoselect Sudwest GmbH, Energie Baden-Wurttmnburg AG







wood, wood chips, waste wood, demolition debris, dedicated energy crops

various spent liquors (kraft, sulfite, soda and straw spent liquors; distillery spent wash) and solid biomass and carbonaceous matter, including paper mill sludge, wood chips, rice hulls, saw dust, grape plant prunings, pistachio nut shells, municipal solid waste, refuse derived fuel , sewage sludge, lignite and sub-bituminous coals, low-level mixed waste surrogates, wood wastes, switchgrass pellets, poultry litter, swine waste and olive pits

Process Demo Unit - Durham, NC

Southern Research Institute’s Carbon to Liquids (C2L) Research Facility; Emerging Fuels Technology Fisher-Tropsch

spent liquors, bark, forest residuals, agricultural residuals and energy crops

Flambeau River Biofuels Project; Emerging Fuels Technology Fisher-Tropsch

spent liquors, bark, forest residuals, agricultural residuals and energy crops

New Page Corporation: Project Independence; Emerging Fuels Technology Fisher-Tropsch

biomass /biomass coal blends; Lignite & Biomass

TUBITAK MAM, ITU, MU, HABAS,UMDE As Customer Institutions: TKI, EIE

West Palm Beach, Florida

ECO NRG Systems LP, Millar Western Forest Products Ltd.

wood, dedicated energy crops, demolition debris, sawdust, waste wood, wood chips, bark, charcoal, agricultural residues, rice husks

Carbona's gasification, biomass gasification and synthetic gas purification, Fisher Tropsch catalysis

lignocellulosics; waste wood, clean wood, biomass

Diamond Alternative Energy and American Process Inc.

Verenium Biofuels Corp.(now BP) dilute acid hydrolysis, steam explosion and separate fermentation Cambridge, MA ethanol Jennings, Louisiana 2007 pilot 1.4 mgy

Verenium Biofuels Corp.(now BP) dilute acid hydrolysis, steam explosion and separate fermentation Cambridge, MA ethanol Jennings, Louisiana 2009 demo 1.4 mgy

Verenium Biofuels Corp.(now BP) dilute acid hydrolysis, steam explosion and separate fermentation Cambridge, MA ethanol Lykes Bros. Inc., BP Amoco PLCVIDIR Biomass Inc. updraft, atmospheric pressure gasification Arborg, MB thermal nergy, syngas, electricity straw, woodVider Machine Inc. ? gasification Arborg, MN thermal energy agricultural residues, straw Arborg, MNVienna University of Technology gasification, syngas steam reformation, Fisher-Tropsch catalysis research Gussing, Austria syngas, Fisher-Tropsch liquids lignocelulose, syngas Gussing, Austria 2005 Repotec, Biomassekraftwerk GussingVinking gasifier two stage downdraft fixed bed gasifier thermal energy, syngas wood chips, waste wood, straw Technical University of Denmark

Vikinge Forest & Bioenergy AB Wood Fuel Supply Rimforsa,. SWEDEN

Virent Energy Systems Inc. Madison, WI cellulose, corn stover, pine residuals Houston, Texas 2012 Shell Hydrogen LLC, Catchlight

Vision Power Canada Inc. Bio-heat, Combined Heat and Power, Pellets North Bay, ON thermal energy, electricity, pellets Biomaxx

VKW Kaufmann Reuthe thermal energy, electricity waste woodW2 Energy Inc. transportable plasma assisted gasification, syngas catalysis Toronto, Ontario thermal energy, syngas, electricity, liquid fuels biomass, waste residuesWaermeversorgung Grossenhain /POW AG gasification 6 MWe 21 MWth thermal energy, syngas, electricity lignocellulosics Großenhain, Germany VER Verfahrensingenieure GmbH, Dresden

Waste to Energy dilute acid hydrolysis; pyrolysis steam reformation; or gasification and catalysis Paso Robles, CA ethanol, electricity, lignin, yeast, gypsum, furfural Bioenergy Development

Watertown Renewable Power LLC electricity tree branches, stumps, wood pallets Tamarack Energy, Weiss A/S two step gasification 0.5 MWe 1 MWth thermal energy, syngas, electricity lignocellulosics; wood chips Hadsund, Denmark DTU CopenhagenWellons Canada wood-fired thermal oil Surrey, B.C. thermal energy wood residues Adams Lake, BC Interfor

Wellons FEI Corp. kilns and cogeneration step grate energy systems Sainte-Julie, QC thermal energy, electricity

West Biofuels high heat, oxygen and steam at low pressure dual‐fluidized bed gasifier thermal energy, syngas, F-T liquids Woodland, California 2007 1.75 kta University of California

Western Biomass Energy enzymatic saccharification and fermentation Rapid City, WY ethanol Upton, WY March, 2007

Western Biomass Energy enzymatic saccharification and fermentation Rapid City, WY ethanol Hill City, WY KL Energy Corp.

Western Bioenergy Inc. electricity Fort Saint James, B.C.

Western Bioenergy Inc. electricity Merritt, B.C.

West Fraser Mills Ltd. electricity Chetwynd, B.C.

West Fraser Mills Ltd. electricity Fraser Lake, B.C.Westwood Energy Systems Inc. wood pelletization Kelowna, BC wood pellets waste wood

Weyerhaeuser high temperature atmospheric pressure combined cycle gasification New Bern, NC electricity, thermal energy, syngas black liquor, waste wood New Bern, NC October, 2003 ?Weyerhaeuser Organic Rankin Cycle electricity waste heat Greenville, North Carolina KGRA Energy

Weyland AS strong acid hydrolysis, fermentation Blomsterdalen, Norway ethanol lignocellulose, sawdust Blomsterdalen, Norway 2010 0.63 kta

gasification, catalytic synthesis, distillation - catalyzed pressure reduction (CPRTM) Mississauga, ON syngas, ethanol, electricty Halifax,NS Thermo Design Engineering (TDE) SDTC

WoodPower downdraft Woodpower gasifier 0.35 MWe 0.425 MWth thermal energy, synggas, electricity Wila, Switzerland 2007 EKZ

Windhager Zentralheizung wood gasification (biomass) boilers and log gasification thermal energy wood pellets, split logwoodWoodRoll gasification, membrane purification of syngas Kista, Sweden syngas, thermal energy biomass

pulp mill hemicellulose; agricultural residues, forestry waste, municipal solid waste, waste wood, dedicated crops, bagasse

merger of Diversa Corp. and Celunol Corp., BP Amoco PLC


merger of Diversa Corp. and Celunol Corp., BP Amoco PLC


Highlands County, Florida.

Consultant services aiming at solutions which optimize the use of wood biomass, enable high degree of utilisation, lead to security in supply and low system costs of wood fuel.

Wood waste from logging and sawmills www.vikingeforest.se

aqueous phase reformation gasification & catalytic bioforming or dilute sulphuric acid pre-treatment and enzymatic hydrolysis

liquid transportation fuels, syngas, bio-gasoline, monoxygenates such as alcohols, aldehydes, and ketones, plus the reforming products of hydrogen and carbon dioxide, paraxylene (PX)

wood, wood chips, wood pellets, shavings, agriculture residues

moving grate and muffle burners, heat exchanger, counter pressure turbine, cogeneration

Reuthe Vorarlberg, Austria

municipal waste, agriculture waste, demolition wood

35%-60% MC wood residues, bark, shaviings, sawdust

clean wood; waste wood, clean wood, biomass

corn stover, wood residues,sugar beets, switchgrass

KL Process Design Group, Baker Timber Products

corn stover, wood residues,sugar beets, switchgrass

sawmill waste, logging debris, fibre from standing timber




Chevron, Chemrec AB, US Black Liquor Consortium

Norwegian Research Council, Fana Stein & Gjenvinning AS, Sarsia Seed, Statoil

Woodland Biofuels Inc. (formerly Woodland Chemical Systems Inc.)

wood & agricultural residues, pulp sludge

lignocellulosics; dried chips from waste wood

Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK

http://www.vikingeforest.se/

Xethanol Corporation phosphoric acid/acetone hydrolysis & fermentation New York, NY ethanol, biodiesel, lignin, acetic acid biomass waste, citis peels Augusta, GA http://www.xethanol.com/

Xylitol Canada Inc steam and ion exchange extraction Toronto, Ontario xylitol hardwood

XYLOWATT sa open top downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification (0.3 MWe) Charleroi, Belgium thermal energy, syngas, electricity Regal, Belgium 2002

XYLOWATT sa open top downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification (0.15 MWe) Charleroi, Belgium thermal energy, syngas, electricity Gazel, Belgium 2000

XYLOWATT sa open top downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification (0.3 MWe) Charleroi, Belgium thermal energy, syngas, electricity Luik, Belgium

Xynergo Lysaker, Norway syndiesel woody biomass

Yamagata Green Power Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S updraft gasifcation , Jenbacher engines syngas, electricity Cherry wood GE Energy

ZeaChem Inc. Lakewood, CO hydrogen, ethanol poplar wood Boardman, Oregon 2011 pilot

Ze-gen Inc. liquid metal (copper) gasification Boston, Massachusetts syngas,thermal energy, electricity biomass, plastic carpet fibre 2007 pilot New Bedford Waste Services

Ze-gen Inc. liquid metal (copper) gasification Boston, Massachusetts syngas,thermal energy, electricity biomass, plastic carpet fibre Attlebro, Massachusetts 2011 Attlebro Corporate CampusZelezniki biomass cogeneration thermal energy, electricity waste wood Zelezniki, SloveniaZia Metallurgical Processes (ZMP), Inc. Thermal Reduction Gasification (TRG) Process - rotary gasifcation Dallas, TX thermal energy, syngas, electricity, syndiesel municipal solid waste Los Angeles, CA 154 kta

zuChem Inc. fermentation xylitol

Supporting Industries:

Dyadic Enzymes for cellulosic conversion Jupiter FL enzymes http://www.dyadic.com/wt/homeDiversa (now merged with Celunol - Verenium) Enzymes for cellulosic conversion Cambridge MA enzymes http://www.verenium.com/index.htmlGenencor Enzymes for cellulosic conversion Rochester, NY enzymesMicrobiogen C5 & C6 Yeast Australia yeastNovozymes Enzymes for cellulosic conversion Copenhagen, Denmark enzymes plant - Blair, NebraskaRoyal Nedalco Enzymes for cellulosic conversion, Organisms for pentose fermentation Bergen op Zoom, the Nethenzymes, microorganisms http://www.nedalco.com/index2.htmlUOP, LLC

UTEK, DDS Technologies, Aventine, Harris Group, The Facility Group, ABGT Advanced Biomass Gasification Technologies, Virginia Tech process, Renewable Sirits LLC

Mascoma, Xylitol USA (Emerald Forest Sugar, Inc.)

wood, dedicated energy crops, demolition debris, sawdust, waste wood, wood chips, bark, charcoal



Norske Skog, Viken Skog, Allskog, Mjøsen Skog and Statskog

Murayama-shi, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Murayama-shi, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

sulphuric acid hydrolysis, acetogen, fermentation of acetate, lignin gasification and hydrogenolysis production of ethanol

Greenwood Resources, Firelake Capital, CH2M HILL, Proctor & Gamble, Chrysler Group LLC

New Bedford, Massachusetts

http://www.genencor.com

http://www.novozymes.com

http://www.genencor.com/

http://www.novozymes.com/

http://www.abengoa.com/

http://www.americanprocess.com/BiorefineryInitiative.html

http://www.brienergy.com/

http://www.bluefireethanol.com/

http://www.ceres-inc.com/biofuels.html

http://www.colusabiomass.com/about.htm

http://www.mascoma.com/welcome/index.html

http://www.mascoma.com/welcome/index.html

http://www.mascoma.com/

http://www.mhgsystems.com

http://www.rangefuels.com/

http://www.sunopta.com/bioprocess/http://www.sunopta.com/bioprocess/

http://www.xethanol.com/

http://www.dyadic.com/wt/homehttp://www.verenium.com/index.html

http://www.nedalco.com/index2.html

http://www.genencor.com

http://www.novozymes.com

http://www.genencor.com/

http://www.novozymes.com/

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