Envergent Technologies LLC, a Honeywell company, announced today that Italian power company Industria e Innovazione has selected the Envergent RTP (rapid thermal processing) technology for the development of a facility to convert biomass into pyrolysis oil for renewable power generation.
Industria e Innovazione and Envergent have signed an agreement to pursue development of an RTP facility to convert a mix of pine forest residues and clean demolition wood into pyrolysis oil, a liquid biofuel. The facility will be designed to process around 150 bone-dry metric tons per day of biomass to pyrolysis oil for the generation of renewable electricity.
Envergent will provide engineering for the facility which is projected for start-up in 2012. Envergent Technologies is a joint venture of UOP and Ensyn Corp.
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