North Carolina funds biomass projects
In the US, The Biofuels Center of North Carolina has awarded a total of more than $580,000 (€425,000) to three biomass-to-liquid fuel-related projects within the state.
The Biofuels Center has been tasked to implement North Carolina’s renewable fuels standard, which mandates that by 2017, 10% of the liquid fuels sold in North Carolina should come from locally grown and produced biofuels.
The Abell Foundation was awarded $200,000 to work with energy crop research and development company Ceres and gasification technology company ThermoChem Recovery International to identify the most promising energy crops that could be grown in North Carolina for thermochemical conversion to gas and liquids. The crops will be tested for their conversion potential at ThermoChem’s gasification plant in Durham, North Carolina.
The Research Triangle Institute in Research Triangle Park, N.C, will receive $184,891 to develop the technologies necessary to remove tars and other impurities from syngas.
The syngas-cleaning component is necessary for completing a biomass-to-liquids process for converting forest thinning and other woody biomass in North Carolina into liquid transportation fuels.
North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., was awarded $199,128 to demonstrate using a torrefaction pretreatment process alongside a gasification process to produce liquid transportation fuels from woody biomass.
The Biofuels Center has been tasked to implement North Carolina’s renewable fuels standard, which mandates that by 2017, 10% of the liquid fuels sold in North Carolina should come from locally grown and produced biofuels.
The Abell Foundation was awarded $200,000 to work with energy crop research and development company Ceres and gasification technology company ThermoChem Recovery International to identify the most promising energy crops that could be grown in North Carolina for thermochemical conversion to gas and liquids. The crops will be tested for their conversion potential at ThermoChem’s gasification plant in Durham, North Carolina.
The Research Triangle Institute in Research Triangle Park, N.C, will receive $184,891 to develop the technologies necessary to remove tars and other impurities from syngas.
The syngas-cleaning component is necessary for completing a biomass-to-liquids process for converting forest thinning and other woody biomass in North Carolina into liquid transportation fuels.
North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., was awarded $199,128 to demonstrate using a torrefaction pretreatment process alongside a gasification process to produce liquid transportation fuels from woody biomass.
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