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Chemrec Black Liquor Gasifier Reaches 10,000 Operating Hours Producing Syngas for Synthetic Fuels from Renewables

Posted on June 12, 2009

The Chemrec development plant in Pite , Sweden has reached 10,000 accumulated operating hours producing high-quality synthesis gas based on 100% renewable feedstock. The syngas will be used to produce second generation synthetic motor fuels. The development plant, DP-1, has a capacity of 20 metric tons of solids per day, is oxygen-blown and has an operating pressure of 30 bar(g). It gasifies black liquor, a by-product in the kraft process, using the Chemrec entrained-flow, high temperature technology. This technology is differentiated in that from a renewable feedstock in a single step it ac...

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biofuels , biomass , renewable , sweden , swedish