French CEA to generate BTL
France’s government-funded technological research organisation CEA – Atomic Energy Commission, now renamed the Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission – is launching a biomass to liquids (BTL) project in north-east France.
The Bure Saudron pilot will demonstrate a complete BTL production chain, which involves gathering and conditioning of biomass, gasification, gas processing and conversion to synthetic fuel via the Fischer-Tropsch process.
It is expected that the pilot plant will use around 75,000 tonnes a year of forest and local agricultural residue to help produce around 23,000 tonnes a year of second generation biofuel including diesel, kerosene and naptha.
Bure Saudron project will experiment with a new process to increase efficiency – the ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide generated during the synthesis stage of the fuel will be enhanced by the external input of hydrogen.
According to the French CEA, this will be a world first.
The Bure Saudron pilot will demonstrate a complete BTL production chain, which involves gathering and conditioning of biomass, gasification, gas processing and conversion to synthetic fuel via the Fischer-Tropsch process.
It is expected that the pilot plant will use around 75,000 tonnes a year of forest and local agricultural residue to help produce around 23,000 tonnes a year of second generation biofuel including diesel, kerosene and naptha.
Bure Saudron project will experiment with a new process to increase efficiency – the ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide generated during the synthesis stage of the fuel will be enhanced by the external input of hydrogen.
According to the French CEA, this will be a world first.
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