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Table 3 BTL developments using PEF gasifiers

From: The bioliq® bioslurry gasification process for the production of biosynfuels, organic chemicals, and energy

Company/country

Gasifier feed

Gasification conditions

Biomass pretreatment

Schwarze Pumpe/Germany [2933]

Diverse liquids, slurries from waste and lignite

26 bar, 1,200°C to 1,600°C, GSP-type, 130 MW(th)

Diverse lignite, organic waste

Choren/Germany [5, 91, 92]

Hot pyrolysis vapors, char powder for chemical quench

4 to 5 bar, > 1,400°C, char quench to 900°C

Auto-thermal pyrolysis on-site at gasifier pressure

Chemrec/Sweden [93, 94]

Concentrated black liquor

ca. 40 bar, ca. 950°C

Integrated into the on-site pulp mill

KIT, bioliq/Germany [1827]

Any bioslurry or paste from biooil plus char

up to 80 bar, ca. 1,200°C

FP at 500°C on- or off-site; any type of biomass liquefaction

ECN/The Netherlands

[95, 96]

Pulverized char from torrefaction

ca. 40 bar, ca. 1,200°C

Torrefaction (≤ 300°C pyrolysis on- or off-site)

BioTFueL/France

Pulverized char from torrefaction

Uhde Prenflow™ gasifier, 15 MW(th)

Torrefaction

  1. KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; GSP, Gaskombinat Schwarze Pumpe; FP, fast pyrolysis.