Bio Industries

Novel Cellulosic BioIndustrial Technologies and Products
March 27, 2012
Prepared by: Dave Pattterson

Bioindustry:
Process:
Location:
Products:
Feedstock
Abengoa Bioenergy, Biocarburantes Castilla y Leon, Ebro

Pulvea
steam explosion, enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation
Spain
ethanol, lignin, electricity
Abengoa Bioenergy Biomass
steam explosion, enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation; gasification
St. Louis, MO
Abengoa Bioenergy Biomass of Kansas, LLC
steam explosion, enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation; gasification
St. Louis, MO
Accelergy
Advanced Biorefinery Inc.
AE Biofuels Inc.
gasification and catalytic process

fast pyrolysis
enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation; ambient temperature strach hydrolysis
Houston, Texas
Ottawa, ON
Cupertino, CA
jet fuels
BioOil, char, thermal energy
ethanol
AgderBiocom
Agni Energy Services (P) Ltd.
updraft gasifier with indexing rotary grate 1.2 MWth

? gasification
Norway
Hyderabad, India
thermal enrgy, syngas

thermal energy, syngas, electricity
biomass or coal
forestry residues, waste wood
agricultural waste
waste wood; mixed waste wood,
shavings, hoggings, sawdust, bark
rice husks, biomass
Agnion Energy Inc.
Heatpipe-Reformer indirect (or allothermal) gasification
syngas, thermal energy, electricity
solid biomass
Grassau, Germany
Agnion Technologies GmbH

AHT Pyrogas Vertreibs GmbH
Alcar Chemicals Group
Altentech Power Inc.
Alholmens Kraft
Heatpipe-Reformer indirect (or allothermal) gasification 32.5 MWth; 6.1 Mwe

downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification (0.75 MWe)
hydrogenolysis
10 MW peat power plant, biomass drying
circulating fluidized bed & combined condensing CHP

ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, glycerin, sorbitol, xylitol
electricity
thermal energy, electricity
lignocellulosics; waste wood

wood chips
waste biomass
peat pellets
bark, wood, peat
Pfaffenhofen, Germany
Neustadt, Austria
Trois Rivieres, QC
ALICO Inc.
high temp. gasification & anaerobic bacteria fermentation
Gladbach, Germany
Vercheres, QC
Vancouver, BC
LaBelle, FL
syngas, ethanol, electricity
corn stover, wheat straw,

switchgrass, milo stubble
Pilot Plants
Proposed
Babilafuente,
Salamanca, Spain
Start Up
2010
Raveena, NB
Hugoton, Kansas
portable, ON
Butte, Montana
Rotorua, New Zealand
2011
Sept., 2006
Aug., 2003
Plant Size
(1000 tonne / yr)
Partners and Affiliations:
25 kta
CIEMAT, University of Lund
231 kta
LLC, Antares Corp., Taylor Engineering
363 kta
LLC, Antares Corp., Taylor Engineering

Energy & Environmental Research Center
(EERC)
2011
WIT, EECA, Norwagian AgderBiocom

Waste Management Inc., Kleiner Perkins
Caufield Byers, Munich Venture Partners and
Wellington Partners
pilot
2003
July, 2008
Waste Management Inc., Kleiner Perkins

Caufield Byers, Munich Venture Partners and
Wellington Partners
1-5 kta
Genivar
Peat Resources Limited
Pietarsaari, Finland
waste wood, urban wastes
LaBelle, FL
municipal solid waste/ agricultural

waste/ wood waste/process
water/sewage
grain, switchgrass, corn cobs, corn
fibre
waste wood
Springfield, KY
McBride, BC
254 kta
Bioengineering Resources Inc., Washington

Group International, GeoSyntec Consultants,
BG Katz Companies, LLC, Emmaus
Foundation
Thermaloc/TMI/Thermonertia/Aqua-Pristine/FreshRain/Harvest Water
Colorado Springs,
Colorado
syngas, thermal energy. electricity
Alltech
Alterna Energy Inc./Alterna Biocarbon
Alternative Energy Financing
community biorefinery
pyrolysis
business planning, deal structuring, financial modelling and capital raising
Lexington, KY
Prince George, BC
London, UK
ethanol, wet distillers dried grain

biocoke, biooil, syngas, thermal energy
renewable energy finances
Alter NRG Corp.
plasma gasification
Calgary, Alberta
waste
Mihama Mikata, Japan
2002
Westinghouse Plasma Corporation, Air

Products, KiPlasama, Coskata Inc., General
Motors, SMS Infrastructures Ltd.,
Alter NRG Corp.
plasma gasification
Calgary, Alberta
waste
Utashinai, Japan
2003

Alter NRG Corp.
plasma gasification
Calgary, Alberta
waste
Pune, India
2008-9

Alter NRG Corp.
plasma gasification
Calgary, Alberta
Fox Creek, Alberta

American Energy Enterprises
dilute acid hydrolysis

lignocellulosic biorefinery (AVAP - American Value added Pulping) - combustion,
fermentation
gasification
Brookfield, Connecticut
ethanol
coal
harvest wastes, sawdust, yard
wastes
New Milford, Connecticut
AEE Distilleries Inc.
Atlanta. GA
Netherlands
ethanol, thermal energy, electricity

sulphite black liquor

demolition wood
Park Falls, WI
Amyris Biotechnologies
Andritz
Ankura Scientific Energy Technologies (P) Ltd
fermentation
pulp & paper power boilers, bubbling fluidized bed gasification, circulating fluidized
bed gasification
? gasification
Applied Biofuels
Apollo Bioenergy Inc.
Archer Daniels Midland Corp.
Genesyst Gravity Pressure Vessel for continuous dilute acid hydrolysis with subcritical water
gasification
thermochemical hydrolysis
Emeryville, CA
alternate biofuels
Graz, Austria
Baroda, India

sugar cane
wood biomass, recycled wood,
energy crops, sludges, peat
?
Sparks, Nevada
Decatur, IL
ethanol
syngas, Bio-LPG, Biopropane, DME
ethanol, animal feed
waste wood, agriculture waste,

MSW, sewage sludge, pulp sludge.
wood
corn kernel fibre
http://www.abe
0.33-17 kta
Alpha - Omega Environmental Inc.
American Process Inc.

Americentrale Fuel Gas Plant
DOE
May, 2007
early 2009
Flambeau River Biorefinery, LLC

Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
Byers, and TPG Biotech
Malta
DOE
http://www.americanprocess
Arkenol Fuels, LLC (now BlueFire Ethanol, Inc.)

Armstrong Pellet
concentrated sulphuric acid hydrolysis with mild acid pre-treatment,

wood pelletization
Orange County, CA
Armstrong, BC
Aerni Pratteln
Aruna Electrical Works (P) Ltd
ASG Canada Energy Inc.
downdraft Kuntschar gasifier 0.13 MWe 0.26 MWth

? gasification
Tamil Nadu, India
Avantium
catalytic production of furfurans
Avedore 2
gas turbines cogeneration
Avello Bioenergy
B9 Energy Biomass Ltd.
AvelloFRAC pryrolysis
downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification
Babcock & Wilcox, Volund
cellulosic ethanol, low grade lignin

wood pellets

thermal energy
biodiesel, thermal energy, electricity
furan-based biofuels, 2,5-dimethylfuran,
Amsterdam, Netherlands ethyoxylmethylfurfural
plant and tree clippings, paper and

cardboard products or agricultural
residues.
waste wood
lignocellulosics; conditioned clean
wood
?
waste biomass
HMF(hydroxymethyfurfural) from
sucrose
Sacramento, CA
Pratteln, Switzerland
2009 demo
Anahim Lake, B.C.
natural gas, oil, straw, wood pellets
Iowa
Londonderry, UK
bio-oil fractions, bio-char

mill residues, agricultural waste,

waste wood, plantations
Boone Iowa
wood chips, dedicated energy crops Armagh, UK
Ebsjerk, Denmark
wood, agricultural residues, waste
Ebsjerk, Denmark
1993
Ebsjerk, Denmark
Ebsjerk, Denmark


Harboore, Denmark
Daio, Japan
1996

updraft co-current fixed bed gasification & Jenbacher engines (1.5 MWe CHP)
air blown updraft co-current fixed bed gasification & Jenbacher engines (1.5 MWe &
3.5 MWth) CHP
air blown updraft co-current fixed bed gasification & Jenbacher engines 12 MWth
air blown updraft co-current fixed bed gasification & Jenbacher engines (2 MWe & 8
MWth) CHP
combined cycle gasification
Virent Energy Systems, Iowa State University,

Cargill, Asphalt Paving Association of Iowa,
Borregaard LignTech
Blackwater Valley Museum
Keramische Industrie Bedarfs, McDermott
International, Inc
Keramische Industrie Bedarfs, McDermott
International, Inc
Ebsjerk, Denmark
Ebsjerk, Denmark


Yamagata, Japan
2008
Advanced Renewable Energy Ltd.
Battelle Columbus Laboratories, BCL
atmospheric circulating fluidized bed FERCO low-inlet velocity gasifier
Columbus, OH
wood residuals, pulp sludge

agriculture residues, forest residues,
municpal solid waste, energy crops

Avedore, Denmark
Itlay
New Bern, NC &
Burlington, VT
BBI International
Renewable Energy Solutions for cellulosic ethanol and second generation biofuels
Lakewood, CO
feasability studies, energy audits, business plans, project

development, engineering, technology review and
development - cellulosic ethanol
BBI BioVentures, LLC
biochemical
Lakewood, CO
ethanol
BC International (BCI)
BEV, Domsland
separate dilute acid hydrolysis and bioengineered E coli fermentation

Dedham, MA
Eckenforde, Germany
cellulosic ethanol
agriculture residues, forest residues,

municpal solid waste, energy crops Denver, Colorado
bagasse,corn stover, rice hulls,
waste wood
Loisiana
wood chips
Eckenforde, Germany
BFT Bionic Fuel Technologies AG

BG Technologies, LLC
BioEnDev AB
Bioenergy LLC
catalytic low temperature microwave depolymerization of hydrocarbons

torrified wood
charcoal
Washington, DC
Ume, Sweden
St. Petersbburg, Russia
diesel; hydrocarbons
lignocellulosics; straw pellets

wood
thermal energy
wood
BioEnergy International, LLC

Bioengineering Resources Inc. (BRI)
Bioenergy Systems Inc.
BioEthanol Japan
Biofine Renewables, LLC

Bioflame Ltd.
BioFuels Energy Corporation
Biogen Ltd. Corp.
acid hydroylsis biocatalytic (genetically modified enzyme) fermentation

high temp. two-stage gasification & anaerobic bacteria fermentation (biocatalytic
conversion)
downdraft gasification
enzymatic hydrolysis & Klebsiella oxytoca + Eschericia coli fermentation
levulinic acid technology

? gasification
Biogen/AGT moving bed, downdraft Gasification
Norwell, Massachusettsnovel catalysts, ethanol

New Smyrna Beach, FL
Spokane, WA
syngas, ethanol, electricity, acetic acid, thermal energy

Japan
ethanol
North Yorkshire, UK
Denver, CO
Denver, CO
Miami, Florida
Denver, CO
levulinate fuels - esters using ethanol, methanol. butanol,

or mixed alcohols, formic acid, furfural, lignin char;
biochemicals
ethanol
ethanol
ethanol
BioGasol ApS
bioliq - Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
Biomass Canada Ltd.
Wet Explosion & enzymatic hydrolysis & xylose fermentation with thermophilic
anerobic bacterium and glucose with yeast
Lyngby,Denmark
flash pyroysis, entrained flow gasification; Fisher-Tropsch catalysis
anaerobic high temp normal atmospheric H20 shift gasification & restricted CO2 format Edmonton, AB
ethanol, hydrogen, methanol, electricity, biogas

syngas, syndiesel, syngasoline
wood syngas, electricity
Biomass Engineering Ltd.
downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification 1 MWe
Newton-le-Willows, UK
Biomass Engineering Ltd.
Newton-le-Willows, UK
cellulose, agricultural waste

forestry, agricultural & municipal
wastes, & demolition wood
dried cubed biomass
demolition wood
lignocellulose
waste wood
Aarhus - odum, Denmark
2.5 tpd demo
Weyerhaeuser Co., McNeil Power Station
2010
52 kta
Fagen Inc., BBI International, NRG, Stoel

Rives LLP, Kennedy & Co
ICF Kaiser and TIC
AHY Pyrogas
2008 demo
0.4 kta
Ankur, India
Plainfield Asset Management, Camulos

Capital, Itera Ethanol, LLC and Context Capital
Management, BC International Corporation,
University of Florida
Clearfield County, PA
Fayetteville, AR
Osaka, Japan
2007
Linconshire
Raymondville, TX
Fairmont, Minnesota
2008
85 kta
Alico, Inc.
16 kta
Taesei Corp., Marubeni Corp., Daiei Inter

Nature System, Sappora Breweries Ltd.,
Celunol Corp.
PBM Power Ltd.

Earls Nook Limited (new company name)
biomass
Wood River, Nebraska.
wheat straw, corn stover, paper
lignocellulose, bioil , char
hog fuel
wood, wood chips, dedicated energy
crops
wood, wood chips, dedicated energy
crops
Ballerup, Denmark
Karlsruhe, Germany
?
Cumbria, United
Kingdom
Lima, Peru
2010
2016
?
2007
4 kta
4.2 kta
85 kta

Technical University of Denmark, Aalborg
University
LURGI GmbH
Sigma 3 Engineering, Universal Compression
http://www.brienergy.com/
Biomass Gas & Electric LLC

Biomasse Kraftwerk Gussing GmbH Co KG
Biomass Secure Power Inc.
Biomaxx Systems Inc.
BioMCN
hot sand and steam gasification

dual fluidized bed gasification & biocoke circulating bed gasification: CHP (Fast
Internal Circulation Fluidized Bed (FICFB) biomass steam gasification)
wood pellets, torrefied pellets
Renewable energy consultation
gasification
Atlanta. GA
Bio SNG Gssing

Biosphere Environmental Energy
Bioten Corp.
synthesis conversion
? gasification
combustion and bioturbine
Los Angeles, CA
Knoxville, TN
Bioversion Industries
? gasification
Mississauga, Ontario
Bio Vision Technology Inc.

Biowrme Eberndorf
steam explosion hydrolysis & fermentation & steam autohydrolysis

downdraft gasifier
New Minas, NS
BlueFire Ethanol Inc./ Renewables(formerly Arkenol, Inc.)
concentrated sulphuric acid hydrolysis including flash fermentation, membrane

distillation and chromatographic separation of the acid from the sugars
Abbotsford, B.C.
Toronto, Ontario
Irvine, CA
forest residue, municipal solid waste,

agricultural waste and energy crops , FL

pellets
wood chips, natural gas

sawmill waste
Gussing, Austria
Cowichan Lake, B.C.
syngas, methanol
woody biomass
Delfzijl, Netherlands
syngas
lignocellulosics
?
mill waste
Gssing, Austria
syngas, ethanol
ethanol, CO2, lignin, acetic acid, furfural, electricity, lactic
acid, ethyl acetate, xylitol, levoglucosan, hydrogen
lignocellulosic
ethanol
BMH Energy (BMH Technology Oy)

gasification & Fisher-Tropsch catalysis?
TYRANNOSAURUS SRF Process turns waste into high quality Solid Recovered
Fuel (SRF)
Borgford Bioenergy LLC
Octaflame gasifier
BornBioFuel
Borregaard Industries Ltd.
Bracknell CHP Energy Center
Braskem
separate hydrolysis / fermentation

hydrolysis, fermentation of hemicellulose
? CHP
Brelsford Engineering, Inc.

BRI Process
Brightstar Synfuels Co.
BEI Cellulose (dilute acid two-stage plug-flow) Hydrolysis Reactor and fermentation
Clostridium conversion of syngas
steam reforming gasification
Bozeman, MT
St. Gabrial, LA
ethanol
ethanol
thermal energy, syngas
Broin Companies
Brook Hall Estate
BSP Thermal Systems Inc.
BTG Bioliquids BV
hydrolysis & fermentation

downdraft co-current fixed bed gasifier
multiple hearth furnaces
fast pyrloysis rotating cone reactor
Sioux Falls, SD
Londonderry, UK
St. Paul, Minnesota
Enshede, Netherlands
Buhler
rotary and conveyor dryers, wood pellet system

Wilmington, DE
BlueFire Ethanol Inc/ Renewables(formerly Arkenol, Inc.)

BlueFire Renewables Inc.
Blue Horizon Bio-Diesel Inc.
Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC
hardwood pellets, lignocellulosic

wood, biomass
Progress Energy
2012
Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Paul

Scherrer Institute, Switzerland; Repotec,
Austria
2008 demo
Red Boiling Springs, TN
GE
Thermo Design Engineering Limited,
Woodland Chemical Systems Inc., Aquarius
Coatings Inc.
4 potential NS sites
Eberndorf, Austria

wastes, paper, purpose grown crops Izumi, Japan
Irvine, CA
ethanol, low grade lignin
sorted green waste and wood waste Mecca, CA
Irvine, CA
Red Deer, Alberta
ethanol, low grade lignin

syndiesel, ethanol
sorted green waste and wood waste Fulton, Mississippi

bitumen & cellulose
Rauma, Finland
Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF)
Colville, Washington
syngas, thermal energy
MSW
thinning waste, forest residues,
waste wood
Brazil
ethanol, biogas, lignin, hydrogen

ethanol, vanillin
ethylene, polyethylene
Early 2008
2006
NRC, NS Energy, NS Agriculture
2002
Arkenol, JGC Corp., Applied Power Concepts

Inc.
http://www.bluefireethanol.co
Waste Management, Inc.; JGC Corporation;

MECS Inc.; NAES; PetroDiamond; Applied
Power Concepts Inc.
DOE
2013
Aakirkeby, Bornholm,
Denmark
Sarpsborg, Norway
Bracknell, Berkshire, UK
2016
1930
wood
Baton Rouge, LA
1994
ethanol
thermal energy, char, carbon regeneration
bio-oil, organic acids
corn stover
dedicated cellulosic energy crops
wood, agricultural waste
biomass
Emmetsburg, IO
Londonderry, UK
1998
wood pellets
butanol
wood residuals
Jackson County, Florida
agricultural waste
sulfite black liquor
waste wood
ethanol
sawmill waste, corn stover, green
waste
250 kta
Henglo, Netherlands
Lincoln Park Capital Fund LLC

Esso, Petro-Canada, Shell and Suncor
6 kta
500 kta
278 kta
Siemens, Alfa Laval, Grundfos, Ostkraft, Agro

Tech, nne pharmaplan
ChemCell Ethanol
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company; Novozymes

DOE North America, Inc.; an
Rural Generation Ltd.
Empyro BV
Bioenergi Lulea, Green Circle Bio Energy Inc.,
JCE Group
BP, DuPont,
Cambridge Environmental Technologies
variable biomass gasification
Cambridge, Maryland
Canada's Woodland Biofuels

Canadian Bio-Coal Ltd.
Canadian Bioenergy Corporation
Canadian Gasifier Ltd. (Canfuel)
demo celluosic ethanol plant

low temperature microwave
ethanol
bio-coal; torrified wood
biodiesel supplier & distributor
producer gas, rotational shaft power, heated process water
Carbo Consult & Engineering (Pty) Ltd

Carbona Corp. USA
Carbona Corporation/Carbona Inc.
Carbona Inc.
Carbonscape
Catalyst Renewables Corporation
Catchlight Energy LLC
CCE-SJ Gasproducer - downdraft gasifier

pressurized circulating fluidized bed gasification
pressurized circulating fluidized bed gasification & CHP & syngas engines
pressurized circulating fluidized bed gasification
microwave gasification
CHP (Central Heat and Power)
develop novel technologies
Sarnia-Lambton, Ontario
Vancouver, BC
North Vancouver, BC
Brandon, Manitoba
Johannesburg, South
Africa
Atlanta, GA
stationary, portable, & mobile, styles of co-current downdraft "Deep Bed" gasifier
Helsinki, Finland
Blenheim, New Zealand
Dallas, Texas
San Ramon, CA

syngas, electricity, Agrichar
alternate biofuels
? gasification
Shanghi, China
Gallarate, Italy
long-chain dicarboxylic acids, biobased n-butanol,

biobutanol, bioacetone, nucleotides
Celunol Corp.
hydrolysis & Eschericia coli fermentation
Cambridge, MA
ethanol
Ceres
genomics - plantations for thermomechanical
Thousand Oaks, CA
CNFbiofuel, Inc.
Chanderpur Works
Chapleau Cogeneration Limited
Chempolis Oys
ChemPro Group LLC
Torrefication
? gasification
plasma gasification
3G Formicobio Technologies
catalytic hydrolysis
Salida California
Yamuna Nagar, India
Chapleau, ON
Oulu, Finland
Boonton, New Jersey
Chemrec AB
anaerobic high temp\pressure H20 shift gasification integrated pulp mill biorefineries
(Chemre Booster, Chemrec Black Liquour Gasification Combined Cycle, Chemrec
Black Liquour Gasification Motor Fuels)
Chemrec AB
Cathay Industrial Biotech Ltd.

C.C.T. Spa
produce diacids in a single fermentation step followed by purification
Green or dry chips or hogged fuel

Hardwood or softwood chips or
hogged fuel
Wood pellets
Saw dust and shavings
Crushed, cleaned and magnetized
pallets
Certain nut shells and husks
Railroad ties
Particle board
MDF
Plywood
Paper cubes
Coconut shells
Certain seeds
Processed and cleaned construction
and demolition wast
Srania-Lambton
Research Park
University of Western Ontario
SA, Uk, & Namibia
ESKOM Rosherville
Beetle killed wood
Briquetted wood or agricultural

residues, wood block
waste wood
Skive, Denmark
waste wood
biomass
wood, energy crops
cellulose, lignin
Weyerhaeuser and Chevron; KiOR
forest residues, mill residues,

agricultural residues, municipal solid
wastes, grasses
Jilin, China
wood chips
2008
merged with Diversa (now Verenium
Corporation), Marubeni Corporation
Jennings, LA
torrefied wood
electricity
biomass-based products, biofuels and biochemicals
ethanol
switchgrass
switchgrass, willow, sorghum,
miscanthus, energy cane, poplar
agricultural waste, forest thinning,
waste biomass
?
waste wood, railway ties
reed canary grass
wood
Stockholm, Sweden
syngas, electricity, transportation fuels, DME & chemicals,

thermal heat, hydrogen, methanol
black liquor, wood, peat
Pitea, Sweden
2005
7 kta
Volvo Technolgy Transfer AB
Stockholm, Sweden

black liquor, wood,
Ornskoldsvik, Sweden
2013
380 kta
Domsjoe Fabriker AB
Chemrec AB
Stockholm, Sweden

black liquor, wood,
Escanaba, Michigan
Volvo Technolgy Transfer AB, New Page

Corporation, Haldor Topse
Chemrec AB
Chevet
China Resources Alcohol Corporation (CRAC)
Chiptec Wood Energy Systems
enzymatic hydrolysis & xylose + pentose yeast fermentation
? gasification
Stockholm, Sweden
Limoux, France
ZhaoDong City, China
South Burlington, VT

ethanol
black liquor, wood,

wood, agricultural residues
corn stover
wood chips
Courtland, AL
Volvo Technolgy Transfer AB, International

Paper, Air Products
CHOREN Industries GmbH
CHOREN Carbo V low temp. (5-30Bar) NTV gasifier + high temp.(1500C.) HTV
gasifier: oxygen injected endothermic entrained flow and Fisher-Tropsch catalysis
Freiburg, Germany
sundiesel, methanol, electricity, thermal energy

wastes
Freiburg, Germany
2003 Alpha
0.053 kta

wastes
MecklenburgVorpommern, Germany
2007 Sigma
85-1,000 kta
Freiburg, Germany
http://www.celunol.com/
http://www.ceres-inc.com/bio
Temiscaming, QC
Oulu, Finland
Tembec, CP Rail
Esa Niemi
Mo-Fuel
Sunopta Bioprocess Group, Novozymes
Volkswagen, Daimler, Expander Energy Inc.,

Xynergo (Norske Skog), Turina
CHOREN Fuel Freiburg GmbH & Co KG
Freiburg, Germany

wastes
Freiburg, Germany
Freiburg, Germany
waxes, renewable crude oil

wastes
Freiburg, Germany

wastes
CHRISGAS (Clean Hydrogen-rich Synthesis Gas)

CIRAD
Foster Wheeler pressurized circulating fixed bed gasifier & catalytic steam reforming
fixed bed staged gasifier
Varnamo, Sweden
syngas, electricity, transportation fuels
wood chips, straw pellets

wood chips, cotton waste
Cleanstgas GmbH
Cleantech Biofuels Inc.
St. Louis, MO

ethanol
lignocellulosics; wood chips

municipal solid waste
Aiea, Hawaii
Aiea, Hawaii
Aiea, Hawaii
ethanol, syngas, electricity

syndiesel, syngas, electricity
Mountain View, CA
cellulosic ethanol or biobutanol
Colusa Biomass Energy Corporation

Combustion Expert Inc.
Comet Biorefining
Community Power Corporation
Staged biomass gasification 0.150 MWe ; 0.240 MWth

pressurized steam gasification
High Efficiency Hydrothermal Reformer (HEHTR) steam reformation gasification &
slurry bubble column reactor modified Fisher-Tropsch catalysis
steam reformation gasification & modified Fisher-Tropsch catalysis
steam reformation gasification & modified Fisher-Tropsch catalysis 6 - 8 MWe
biomass steam conversion, continuous fixed bed fermentation, and vapor
compression distillation.
steam explosion, dilute sulphuric acid enzymatic hydrolysis, ultra-filtration membrane,
& fermentation
combustion biomass boilers
biomass pretreatment: modular cellulosic sugar process
Biomax Downdraft Gasifier
Colusa, CA
Trois-Rivires, Qubec
London, Ontario
Littleton, CO
ethanol, silica/sodium oxide, lignin

thermal energy
C5 & C6 sugars
Community Power Corporation
Renewable Fuel Gas Generator, bubbling fluidized bed gasifier
Littleton, CO
syngas, hydrogen, biofuel, thermal energy, electricity
wood waste
sugar cane bagasse
waste wood
pulpmill effluent and sludge,
agricultural waste
rice straw, rice hulls, corn stover,
wood
wood
cellulosic biomass
wood chips, nut shells
wood chips, pellets, residues or nut
shells, sawdust, corn stover
Conzepte Technik Umwelt
syngas methanation
Condens Oy
ConocoPhillips / Archer Daniels Midland
Convergence Ethanol Inc.
Novel fixed-bed gasifier

biooil/biocrude gasification with steam or oxygen, Fisher-Tropsch catalysis
Hmeenlinna, Finland
Houston, Texas
catalytic synthesis
California
syngas, thermal energy, CHP, electricity

ethanol
ethanol
CoolPlanet BioFuels, Inc.,

CORE Biofuels Inc.
biomass fractionator, catalysis

gasification
Camarillo, California
gasoline, synthetic diesel, super fuels, char
woodchips, crop residues
Sarnia, Ontario
syngasoline
waste wood
syngas, cellulosic ethanol
biomass, municipal solid waste,

wood chips, switchgrass, corn stover Warrenville, Illinois
Clear Fuels-Rentech
ClearFuels Technology Inc.
ClearFuels Technology Inc.
Cobalt Biofuels
Coskata, Inc.
Coskata, Inc.
Coskata, Inc.
gasification & bioreactor, 3 stage syngas and biofermentation process, membrane separation
Coskata, Inc.
Cosmo Powertech PVT Ltd

Costich Company
Cratech
downdraft co-current fixed bed & updraft co-current fixed bed gasification
pressurized bubblling fluidized bed gasification
Crystal Creek Energy LLC
gasification
Cutech Institut GmbH
gasification, Fisher-Tropsch liquids
Bio-syngas fuel (green natural gas)
Warrenville, IL
Warrenville, IL
Warrenville, IL
Warrenville, IL
Raipur (Chattisgarh),
India
Brush Prairie, WA
Tahoka, TX
Littleton, Colorado
2011
commercial
65 kta

Brue-Saudron, France
2014
23 kta
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Shell F-T
Schwedt, Germany
2016
200 kta

Vaxjo Varnamo, Sewden
Swedish Energy Agency
2011
Collinwood, Tennessee
2013
20 kta
Hawaii Agriculture Research Center
Hughes Hardwood
Alpena, Michigan
Colusa, CA
American Process Inc.

2007
http://www.colusabiomass.co
Fulton Engineered Specialties Inc.
Gussing syngas
sawdust, bark, wood fuel chips and
peat
Gussing, Austria
2008
waste wood
Hearst, ON
2005
ARC test gasifier

Vienna University of Technology, Paul Scherrer
Institute, Repotec
Hearst Ethanol One Inc.

BP , GE, Google Ventures, ConocoPhillips, NRG
Energy
Lakes Timber Health and Salvage
Decker Lake, BC
biomass, municipal solid waste,

wood chips, switchgrass, corn stover Madison, Pennsylvania
woody biomass
KWB Biomasseheizungen GmbH EBNER

Industrieofenbau GmbH
Hazan Research Inc.
2009 demo
Golden, Colorado
Commerce City,
Colorado
pilot
Westinghouse Plasma Corporation, Alter Nrg Corp.,
GM, Regen International, Total S.A., Blackstone
Cleantech Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures,
Advanced Technology Ventures, Globespan Capital
Partners, Arancia.
Oct. 2009
Boligee, Alabama

Partners, Arancia, Fagen Inc.
Partners, Arancia.
sugar cane, sugar cane bagasse
Clewiston, Florida
thermal energy
wood chips, agricultural residues

wood
agricultural residues
Tahoka, TX
Municipal waste, construction debris,

used tires, animal waste, agricultural
waste
lignocellulosics; straw, wood, dried
Clausthal-Zellerfeld,
silage, organic residues
Germany
300 kta
1996
1990 pilot
Daishowa Marubeni International Inc.

Danieli Ambiente SRL
Danish Technical University
Danson's Group
Dapp Generating Station (Verdant Energy Ltd.)
Dasagren Renewable Energy
Decker Manufacturing Ltd.
Dedini Industrias de Base
Diamond Green Diesel LLC
Dow Chemical Company
Drayton Valley Power Ltd.
DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC (DDCE)
Dwap Energy, Inc.
Dynamotive Energy Systems Corp.
pelletized lignin combustion
Earthanol, Inc.
ECN
ECN
Eden River / Otaka Energy
E.I. du Pont Company

wood pellets
thermal energy
ethanol, lignin
renewable diesel
ethanol
electricity
ethanol thermal energy, electricity, ethanol, methanol,
syngas,
syndiesel
BioOil, char, thermal energy, electricity
BioOil, char, thermal energy, electricity
BioOil, char, thermal energy, electricity, jet fuel
black liquor, lignin

?
wood chips
waste wood
waste wood
wood or cofired with diesel
wood, pellets
bagasse
?
Irvine, CA
MILENA atmospheric air blown downdraft research gasifier, OLGA tar removal, syngas
methanation
Petten, Netherlands
MILENA atmospheric air blown downdraft research gasifier, OLGA tar removal, syngas
methanation
Petten, Netherlands
ethanol
Petten, Netherlands
2011
Bio-syngas or green natural gas
waste wood & agricultural biomass

coal, wood, waste wood, straw,
willow
coal, wood, waste wood, straw,
willow
Alkamaar, Netherlands
2016
acetate gasification; fluidized bed gasification; fixed bed, updraft, atmospheric

gasification and organic methanogen reactor
thermal energy, syngas, electricity, methanol, green natural

gas, ethanol
Bio-PDO (1,3 propanediol)
Ethanol, electricity
waste wood
lignocellulosic, straw, corn stover
lignocellulosic, straw, corn stover
Loudun, TN
Biobutanol
waste reduction
sugar cane, sugar beets, corn,

wheat, cassava grasses, straw, corn
stalks
UK
sewage sludge
forest wastes, biocarbon
Stalowa Wola, Poland
updraft co-current fixed bed gasification

two stage gasifier (0.017 Mwe)
wood pelletization
bubbling fluidized bed gasification oerhead six combustion zones + steam 17MW
Netpro Gasifier & Jenbacher engine
high energy efficiency boilers
Rapid (organosolv) Hydrolysis
syngas catalyst
low and high temp. gasification + steam turbine - standardized fluidized bed (12MW)
hydrolysis, fermentation
Thermonertia Microwave Gasification
fast pyrolysis
fast pyrolysis
fast pyrolysis
Peace River, AB
Udine, Italy
Viking, Denmark
Slave Lake, AB
Westlock, Alberta
Zuerich, Switzerland
Decker, Manitoba
Piracicaiba, SP, Brazil
Houston, Texas
Worldwide
Drayton Valley, Alberta
Wilmington,
DW
Colorado
Springs,
Colorado
Vancouver, BC
Vancouver, BC
Vancouver, BC
Bio-syngas or green natural gas
wood waste, corn stover

waste wood, OSB trimmings
bagasse, corn
stover,
switchgrass
Agricultural
waste,
forestry
waste,
cellulose
waste wood
waste wood
Eucalyptus
Peace River, AB
Viking, Denmark
2002
Westlock, Alberta
1998
Pirassunga, Sao Paulo

State
Norco, Louisiana
2013

Vonore, Tennessee
1996
Dec. 2009
Guelph, ON
West Lorne, ON
Australia
April, 2007
April, 2007
Wimington, Delaware
Wimington, Delaware

Eisenmann Corporation
Elektrownia Stalwoa Wola
Dupont Biotech
Pyrobuster
gasification
Wimington, Delaware
Crystal Lake, Illinois
Elementa Group
gasification
Emerging Fuels Technology
catalyst development research
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Emery Energy Company

EMPA
Ena Kraft
? gasification
downdraft gasifier
vibrating grate boiler
Salt Lake City, UT
Enecon
? gasification
Surrey Hills, Victoria,

Australia
charcoal, thermal energy, syngas, electricty
waste wood, agricultural residues
Energos AS - Ener.G
Energex Pellet Fuel
Energos gasification or pyrolysis

wood pelletization
Heimdal, Norway
Lac-Megantic, QC

wood pellets
Energreen Power Ltd.

Energie Vernunfitig Nutzen (EVN)
open-top down draft, re-burn gasification

fixed bed gasification (0.18 MWe)
Chennai, TN, India

Austria
Municipal Waste Wood, waste wood

waste wood
Casuarina, Eucalyptus, coconut
shell, rice husk, cashew nut shell
Energy Products of Idaho
fluidized bed staged gasification
Coeur d'Alene, ID
Energy Quest Inc.
pyrolysis steam reforming (hydrogen technology) fluidized bed gasifier
Henderson, Nevada
thermal energy, syngas, hydrogen, CO2
wood
wood chips and/or any
carbonaceous fuel
Sherbrooke, QC
2003 pilot
Westbury, QC
Jan. 2009
ENERKEM Technologies Inc.
autothermal bubbling fluidized-bed gasification (air blown and oxygen-enriched) &

catalytic synthesis
Montreal, QC
snyngas, thermal energy, electricity, hydrogen, methanol,

ethanol, methyl acetate, ethyl acetate
ENERKEM Technologies Inc.

catalytic synthesis
Montreal, QC

forest and agricultural residues,

waste products, municipal solid
waste; hydro poles
Enerkem Alberta Biofuels LP

ENERKEM Corp.

catalytic synthesis
catalytic synthesis
Montreal, QC
Montreal, QC


waste, straw
wood residues, municipal solid
waste; agricultural residues
Sao Luiz Sugar

Darling International Inc.;Valero Energy Corp.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Verdant Energy
Genencor,
University of Tennessee, Genera
Energy LLC
Alpha - Omega Environmental Inc.
Evolution Biofuels, Mitsubishi
Erie Flooring and Wood Products
Renewable Oil Corporation, Virgin Australia, GE
Fall 2007
1.8 kta
HVC
45 kta
30 kta
2007
Salt Lake City, UT

Duebendorf, Switzerland
Enkoping, Sweden
Tate & Lyle Bioproducts Co.

Renewable Energy Laboratory
BP PLC, British Sugar, POET
Centre for Research and Innovation in the BioEconomy (CRIBE)
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
2004
2012
90 kta
EKZ / Woodpower
BioGen Power
Indian Institute of Science

Eckenforde, Germany
forest and agricultural residues,

waste; hydro poles
66 kta
33-43 kta
TransAlta Utility Corporation, Verdant Energy

Ltd.
@Ventures, Nth Power, Sail Venture Partners,

Calvert Funds, CMGI Inc., Modus Link
lignocellulosic fermentation
Saccharification & Zymomonas mobilis bacterium fermentation
syngas
forest residue
methanol, ethanol, higher alcohols, aldehydes, ketones and
olefins
syngas
municipal waste, agricutrural waste,
waste wood
syngas, electricity, ethanol, methanol, hydrogen, F-T fuels
lignocellulosics
bark, sawdust, waste wood
500 kta
2001
Klamath Falls, Oregon
Klamath Falls Bioenergy LLC, Northwest

Energy Systems Co. LLC
Alberta
Syngas Energy Corp.

Greenfield Ethanol Inc., BIOSYN Process,
Afina Energy Inc., Weatherford International,
University of Sherbrooke
12 kta

Afina Energy Inc., Weatherford International
Edmonton, AB
2011
100 kta

Afina Energy Inc., Weatherford
International,Valero Energy Corp., Waste
Management, Rho Ventures, Braemar Energy
Ventures, Cycle Capital,Methanex Corporation
Pontotoc, Mississippi
2010
100 kta
Three Rivers Solid Waste Management Facility
Eni
Enniskillen College
gasification; Fisher-Tropsch catalysis

Enniskillen, UK
biomonomers, biolubricants, biofillers, biointermediates or

additives, elastomers, bioplastics
ENSYN Renewables Inc.

fast pyrolysis (RTP - Rapid Thermal Process)

Wilmington, DL
Wilmington, DL
BioOil, natural resins, syngas, thermal heat, electricity With

J.V. Partner UOP renewable transportation fuels - green
hydrocarbons
wood
BioOil, natural resins, syngas, thermal heat, electricity
wood
WI
Ottawa, ON
ENSYN Renewables Inc.(High North BioResources Limited

Partnership)
Wilmington, DL
BioOil, natural resins, syngas, thermal heat, electricity
wood
High Level, Alberta

Enterprise RAUD
Wilmington, DL
France
BioOil, thermal heat

wood
charcoal, wood, waste wood
La Pass, Manitoba
France

agricultural waste, MSW

dedicated cellulosic energy crops
Porto Torres, Itlay

Enniskillen, UK
Novamont
Rural Generation Ltd.
1992
Feb., 2001
23 kta
Red Arrow Products Company, Inc., UOP LLC,

Envergent Technologies LLC
UOP LLC, Envergent Technologies LLC
High North BioResources Ltd. Partnership,
UOP LLC, Envergent Technologies LLC, Tolko
UOP LLC, Envergent Technologies LLC.
Mantoba Hydro, Tolko
Martezo
1983
Entimos Ltd.
Erin Consulting
high temperture dual gasifier

Pyromex Ultra-High Temperature Anaerobic Gasification
Tervola, Finland
Regina, SK

snyngas, thermal energy, electricity,
Eqtec Iberia
Etablissements Briolet
Integrated Biomass Gasification CHP

Barcelona, Spain
France
snyngas, thermal energy, electricity,

Etek Etanolteknik AB
two step dilute acid hydrolysis and enzyme fermentation
ethanol
EthanolPiloten i Sverige AB
Ethxx International
2 step diluted acid & enzyme hydrolysis

steam reforming gasification and Fisher-Tropsch catalytic conversion
Aurora, ON
ethanol
syngas, thermal energy, ethanol
wood chips, waste wood, municipal

solid waste, non-food grains
municipal waste
Regina, SK
pellets, wood chips, demolition wood,
fruit pits
charcoal, wood, waste wood
France
softwood residues, energy crops,
canary grass
wood, bagasse, wheat straw, corn
stover
wood
Europlasma
plasma arc gasification
France
syngas, electricity
wood
Township of Chapleau,
Ontario
Evonik New Energies UK Ltd.
biomass CHP
Kent, England
electricity, thermal energy
waste wood
Kent, England
SynDiesel, SynJet
natural gas, low value hydrocarbons,

petcoke, asphaltenes, bitumen
residuals, waste wood, residual
wood, MSW
Edmonton, AB
Norcross, GA
wood, dedicated energy crops,

demolition debris, sawdust, waste
wood, wood chips, bark, charcoal,
agricultural residues, rice husks

ethanol
ethanol
clean wood; clean wood, biomass

Neumarkt, Austria
Blairstown, Iowa
Lawrencevill, Virgina
2008
Catonsville, MD
Catonsville, MD
Gssing, Austria
2002
Oberwart, Austria
2008
Villach, Austria
electricity, thermal energy
mountain pine beetle salvage, waste John W. Murray Biomass

wood/residues
Plant, Glenevis, Alberta
Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation Reserve #133

American Process Inc., NewPage Corp.;
ThermoChem Recovery International Inc, EfT,
Earthtech AECOM, Miron Construction,
Laurentian Engineering
Expander Energy Inc.
FERCO
Fernwrme Neumarkt Biowrme ko Strom Ges.m.b.H.
& Co.KG
Fiberight LLC
Fiberight LLC
Syn-gas generator with proprietary Enhanced Fisher-Tropsch catalysis
? gasification
FICFB Villach
downdraft gasifier 0.24 MWe 0.58 MWth

FICFB steam gasification: fluidised bed into two zones, a gasification zone and a
combustion zone. 2 MWe 4.5 MWth
combustion zone combined with ORC system. 2.7 MWe 1-6 MWth
combustion zone. 3.7 MWe 15 MWth
Firebox Energy Systems Ltd.
Air Boiler
FICFB Gssing
FICFB Oberwart
Edmonton, AB
Calgary, Alberta
Flambeau River Bioerefinery, LLC
gasification & Fisher-Tropsch catalysis
Park Falls, Wisconsin
syngas, syndiesel, waxes
kraft alcohol sulfite black liquor,

forest residues, wood waste
Flex Energies, Inc.

Florida Biomass Energy
Flex-Microturbine modular power plant demonstration

circulating fluidized bed boiler
Mission Viejo, CA

electricity
waste wood, industrial waste, oilfield

waste, municipal solid waste
Santa Barbara, CA
wood chips
Bradenton, Florida
ethanol, electricity
wood pellets
wood waste, bagasse

waste wood, demolition debris
charcoal
waste wood
Florida Crystals Corp.
FLS milj a/s

Fluidyne Gasification
Foothills Forest Products
atmoshpheric circulating fluidized bed gasification

small scale Pioneer Class charcoal gasifier
wood pelletization
West Palm Beach,

Florida
Copenhagen, Denmark
New Zealand
Grande Cache, AB
Park Falls, WI
Kustas & Timo Saares
1987
Martezo
University of Umea; Technical University of
Lulea
University of Umea, Technical University of
Lulea, SEKAB E-technology AB
Pearson Technologies of Mississipi Inc.
2004
2011
160 kta
Sunbay Energy Corp., PRM Energy Systems

Inc., M&L Waste Management Ltd.
HES Biopower Ltd., Biomass Power Plant
Ridham Ltd.
WorleyParsons
2012
Urbas Stahl&Anlagenbau, Vlkermarkt;

25 kta
Austrian Energy
Ortner Anlagenbau
350 kta
Okeelanta, Florida
Innovation Technologies (Ireland) Ltd.
Foster Wheeler Energia Oy
updraft pressurized circulating fluidized bed (Pyroflow) gasification
Friedrich Wahl GmbH & Co. KG
downdraft gasifier
Varkaus, Finland
2009
waste wood, biomass
Varkaus, Finland
Sulzbach-Laufen,
Germany
Lahden Lampovoima OY, Varnamo, Portocel

Tejo S.A., Lid, Vilhemena, Norrsundet Bruk
AB, Karlsborg, Kannkaapa Kaukolampo Oy,
Kempeleen Lampolaitos, Neste Oil / Neste
Jacobs, Stora Enso, Foster Wheeler, VTT,
Kauhajoen Lampohuolto Oy, Bioneer Oy,
Parkanon Lampo Oy, Kiteen Lampo Oy,
Jalasjarven Lampo Oy, Ilomantsin Lampo Oy,
Wisa Forest, Varkaus
2009
McCarran, Nevada
2013

wood, wood chips, bark
Frontline BioEnergy, LLC

Fuel Cell Energy
Fulcrum Bioenergy Inc.
fluidized bed gasification

gasification & catalytic conversion
InEnTecs Plasma Enhanced Melter (PEM) Gasification
Ames, Iowa
Lakewood, CO
Bend, Oregon
thermal enrgy, ethanol

syngas, thermal energy, ethanol
syngas, thermal energy, cellulosic ethanol, electricity
corn stalks, wood chips, forestry

residues, wheat straw, grasses, rice
husks
wood
municpal waste
Future Energy Resources Corporation

Future Energy,GmbH
FVB Energy Inc.
FVB Energy Inc.
FVB Energy Inc.
FERCO Silvagas Process

? gasification
wood waste-fueled district heating
Norcross, GA
Freiburg, Germany
Edmonton, Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
syngas, thernal energy, electricity

thermal energy
thermal energy
thermal energy
forest residue, municipal solid waste,

agricultural waste, energy crops
?
waste wood
waste wood
waste wood
FVB Energy Inc.

FVB Energy Vsters
Edmonton, Alberta
thermal energy
waste wood & municipal solid waste
Charlottetown, PEI
Bubbling Fluidized Bed, wood waste-fueled district heating
Vsters, Sweden
thermal energy
waste wood, peat, coal

corn cobs, corn stover, bagasse,
sorghum, wood chips
Sweden
G2BioChem
hydrolysis, fermentation
G4 Insights Inc.
hydropyrolysis
ethanol, lignin
Burnaby, British Columbia methane
Gainesville Renewable Energy Center

Gasek Ltd
Gestion Cyclofor Inc.
Gazogen, Inc.
Genecor
Genomatica, Inc.
biomass bioenergy, bubbling fluidized bed boiler

small scale gasification
harvest ,transport, compact forest residues
rotary hearth downdraft gasifier
Spezyme Robust Starch Liquefaction enzyme
fermentation of cellulosic sugars or syngas
Gainesville, Florida
Reisjrvi, Finland
La Sarre, Quebec
East Calais, VT
San Diego, California
syngas, electricity
ethanol
1,4 -butanediol (BDO)
Genotypes, Inc.
Gevo
cyanobacteria stabilized as organelles in yeast

biomass fermentation
Pacifica, CA
Dever, Colorado
ethanol, photosynthetic organisms

isobutanol
Global Clean Energy Inc.

GNS - Halle
Gorman Paper Mill
Gteborg Energi AB
Grsted Fjernvarme
Grande Prairie Ecopower Center
Granules de la Mauricie
Granules
Graphic Packaging International Inc
steam reforming gasification

Catalytic reforming of complex molecules
Repotec indirect gasification
staged open core gasifier 0.090 MWe; 0.200 MWth
combined heat & power (combustion), central public heat
wood pelletization
wood pelletization
biomass boiler
electricity
syngas, thermal energy, electricity - small scale
90 kta
Burlington, Vermont
McNeil Generation Station
Prince George, B.C.

Beauval. Saskatchewan
Ouje-Bougoumou, QC
Chatham, Ontario
65 kta
GreenField Ethanol, Novozymes, Andritz and

Harvest Technologies
TSS Consultants, California Energy
Commission
demo
forest biomass
harvest residues, precommercial

thinnings
wood chips & biomass waste
wood residues
biomass
cellulosic feedstock
cellulosic sugars, syngas
light,CO2, H2O, trace minerals,
andglycolytic pond production
Gainesville, Florida
Rayonier, American Renewables, Fagen Inc.,

Zachry Engineering Corp., Wolf Material
Handling Systems, Wood Resources
Recovery, Bioresource Management Inc.
2013
M&G (Gruppo Mossi & Ghisolfi),
Lanxess
Denver, Colorado
Saale-Lochau, Germany thermal energy, syngas, electricity
ethanol
Gteborg, Sweden
bio-syngas, bio-methane
Grande Prairie, AB
Shawinigan Sud, QC
wood pellets
Saint Felicien, QC
wood pellets
Macon, Georgia
electricity
Municipal Soilid Waste

wood chips, demolition debris
paper sludge
wood residues
waste wood
waste wood
waste wood
harvest residues
Salaberry-De-Valleyfield,
Quebec
Saale-Lochau, Germany
Gothenburg, Sweden
Grsted, Denmark
Grande Prairie, AB
2000
AHY Pyrogas
2012
May, 2006
Macon Georgia
Greenwood Fuels LLC
pelletizing waste paper
Green Bay, Wisconsin
paper pellets
Goteborg Energi AB
gasification & catalytic synthesis & combined heat and power
Goteborg, Sweden
syngas, methanol, thermal energy, electricity
forestry residues
Rya, Sweden
2012
75 kta
GTI Gas Technology Institute
Carbona gasification, Velocys Fisher-Tropsch catalysis
synfuels
2010
8.4 kta
co-generation, gasification
gasification
wood
rice husks, olive cake from olive
pressing, wood chips
sawdust, waste sawlog
Des Plaines, IL
Guascor North America

Gulf Coast Energy, Inc.
synga, electricity
syngas, ethanol, syndiesel
Mossy Head, Alabama
Canfor, Canadian Hydro, Aquatera
400 kta
waste paper, paper mill sludge, nonrecyclable corrugated containers,

poly-laminated films, process trim
waste
Vitora, Spain
Livingston, Alabama
Sierra Biofuels
Aug., 2008
Libra Holdings
GoBiGas - Gothenburg Biomass Gasification
Plant
Carbona, VTT, Velocys Fisher Tropsch
Technology, UPM
Gulf Ethanol Corp.

GV Energy Inc.
H2Herten GmbH
Harmac
HEH Holzenergie
Herning Vaerket
vortex implosion disintegrator technology

oxygen blown gasification
Staged reforming gasification; separate gravity driven moving bed reactors; allotherm;
ceramic balls as heat carrier; steam blown power generation (gas engine) and H2
production (up to 150m3/h); ORC plant for waste heat utilization
fixed bed downdraft gasifier, air blown
cofiring
Houston, TX
Calgary, Alberta
ethanol
Dimethyl Ether (DME)

Nanimo, Brtish Columbia ethanol, methanol
thermal energy
Heuristic Enginering Inc.

HFTA University of California Forest Products Lab
HM3 Energy
downdraft co-current fixed bed and updraft counter-current fixed bed gasification
dilute nitric acid hydrolysis
torrefaction
Vancouver, BC
Livermore, CA
Gresham, Oergon
Holzstrom GmbH
downdraft gasification 0.3 MWe 0.62 MWth
Holzstrom aus Nidwalden
2-zone downdraft Pyroforce gasifier 1.38 MWe 1.2 MWth
HoSt Engineering
circulating fluidized bed gasification, Biogas, CHP, Boilers
HS Energieanlagen GmbH
heat pipe reformer, FB; allotherm, steam blown CHP 0.11 MWe 0.25 MWth
Iberdrola Renewables
IBUS (Integrated Biomass Utilization System)
cogneration CHP
mechanical dewatering, enzymatic liquefaction of cellulose and lignin
Hengelo, Netherlands

sugars, lignin
torrified biomass briquettes, TorrB Biomass Pellets
syngas, thermal energy, electricity, methane

Portland, Oregon
Denmark

ethanol, lignin
powdered cellulose
forest residue
lignocellulosics
black liquor
lignocellulosics;
wood chips & natural gas
Microbac Laboratories, Meridian Biorefining

Terrace, BC
Herten, Germany
demo
Blue Tower GmbH, Dresden
Pfalzfeld, Germany
Herning, Denmark
demo
Mothermik CHP Technology GmbH
wood waste
lignocellulosics; waste wood, clean
wood, biomass
lignocellulosics; dried chips from
demolition wood
Prineville, Oregon
2013
waste or biomass, chicken manure

lignocellulosics; Waste Wood, Clean
Wood
FireWise thinnings, harvest and mill
wood wastes
Tzum, Netherlands
Neufahrn bei Freising,
Germany

wood, wood chips, bark, rice husks,
Neunkirchen, Austria
2011
Stans, Switzerland
2007
Pyroforce
Lakeview, Oregon
ICM Inc.
separate air zones and gas bypass duct oxygen-blown gasifer
Colwich, Kansas
Inbicon
hydrothermal pretreatment, high gravity enzymatic hydrolysis, IBUS process
Fredericia, Denmark
ethanol, electricity, C5 molasses, lignin pellets
Straw
Inbicon
Fredericia, Denmark
Inbicon
Fredericia, Denmark
InEnTec, LLC (Integrated Environmental Technologies)
Plasma Enhanced Melter (PEM) - plasma gasification

two stage oxygen-blown gasification and syngas Clostrium ljungdahlii fermentation 6
MWe
Innovative Energy Incorporated
updraft pressurized gasification
Innovation Technologies (Ireland) Ltd.
ITI-fluidyne Waste Wood Gasification
Fredericia, Denmark
2003 Pilot 1
0.8 kta
Copenhagen University, Ris DTU National

Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Dong
Energy
Straw
Fredericia, Denmark
2005 Pilot 2
8.4 kta

Energy
Straw
Kalundborg, Denmark
2009
30 kta

Energy
Bend, Oregon
Reno, Nevada
League City, Texas
cellulosic ethanol, electricity
MSW
municipal waste, straw, wood
residues
syngas, electricity, biochar
wood, municipal solid waste, ag

residue, energy crops, plastics,
tires, shingles and paper
wood waste
municipal waste
Bend, Oregon
Fenton, Missouri
Ballycarry, Northern
Ireland
Vero Beach, Florida
Idaho
Portland, Oergon
Iogen Biorefinery Partners & LLC
steam explosion/dilute acid hydrolysis, multi-stage enzymatic saccharification and

Trichoderma reesei fermentation
Arlington, VA
ethanol, lignin
wheat straw, barley straw, corn

stover, switchgrass, and rice straw
Shelley, ID
ethanol, lignin
corn stover, switch grass, elephant

grass, wheat/oat/barley straw,
bagasse, hardwood chips
Ottawa, ON
ethanol, lignin
corn stover, switch grass, elephant

grass, wheat/oat/barley straw,
bagasse, hardwood chips
Birch Hills, Saskatchewan
Iogen Corporation

Iowa State University

JF Ventures
Julio Berkes SA
Kara Energy Systems B.V.
biochemical, thermochemical and bioprocessing research

charcoal pyrolysis plant
? gasification
fixed bed gasification & steam turbine
Ottawa, ON
Ottawa, ON
Ottawa, ON
Boone, Iowa
Victoria, BC
Montevidio, Uruguay
Almelo, Netherlands
ethanol, F-T liquids, biodiesel, pyrolysis oils

charcoal, syngas, bio-oil, thermal energy
cereal straw
lignocellulose, grains, oilseeds,
glycerine
sawdust
?
wood
87.5 kta
2012
105 kta
Waste Management Inc., S4 Energy Solutions

INEOS Bio, New Planet Energy, EPC firm
AMEC
Fluidyne Gasification
plasma enhanced melter (PEM) - gasification

pellets, pellet boilers and silos
Iogen Corporation
2011
70 kta
Integrated Environmental Technologies LLC (InEnTech)

International WoodFuels LLC

Hartl KG
2009
syngas, ethanol, methanol, electricity, hydrogen, glass,

metal
thermal energy
Iogen Corporation
Alstom Power, University of Stuttgart, TU Delft

and the Royal Technology Insitut of Sweden
2006 demo
Inbicon
stover, straw, bran, wood chips, bark,
Newton, Kansas
municipal waste
INEOS New Planet BioEnergy LLC
45 kta
Lakeside Energy, Zeus Development Corp.,

Dow Corning, Sierra Biofuels, Fulcrum
BioEnergy Inc., Kawasaki Heavy Industry
245 kta
Iogen Energy Corporation; Iogen Corporation; Goldman

DOE Sachs; and The Roy
2004 demo
10.5 kta
Royal Dutch Shell Group, Petro-Canada,

Goldman Sachs.
http://www.iogen.ca/
2011
460 kta
Royal Dutch Shell Group, Petro-Canada,

Goldman Sachs.
SDTC
2009
1.75 kta
Prince Albert, Saskatchew

Boone, Iowa
Coal Harbour, BC
Domtar, Royal Dutch Shell
Shell Renewables
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Kemestrie's Inc. - BIOSYN
Kibk CHP
Fast pyrolysis, high pressure entrained flow gasification, hot gas cleaning, DME- and
gasoline-synthesis
atmospheric bubbling fluidized bed gasification
3 MWe 6 MWth
Karlsruhe, Germany
Sherbrooke, QC
KiOR
fast pyrolysis, Fluid Catalytic Cracking
Pasadena, Texas
KiOR
fast pyrolysis, Fluid Catalytic Cracking
KL Energy Corporation
KL Energy Corporation
Klagenfurt
lignocellulosics
waste wood
waste wood; wood chips
Karlsruhe, Germany
Sherbrooke, QC
Kibk, Denmark
waste wood, wood chips
Columbus, Mississippi
175 kta
Pasadena, Texas
DME, diesel, gasoline

thermal energy
Re-Crude bio-oil; bio-gasoline, renewable diesel,
naphtha, kerosene, distillate, fuel oil
Re-Crude bio-oil; bio-gasoline, renewable diesel,
naphtha, kerosene, distillate, fuel oil
525 kta
enzyme fermentation
Rapid City, WY
ethanol, thermal energy
waste wood
Newton, Mississippi
Hudson Bay,
Saskatchewan
enzyme fermentation
FICFB CHP 5.5 MWe
Rapid City, WY
ethanol, thermal energy

waste wood, cardboard, paper

lignocellulosics
Upton, WY
Klagenfurt, Austria
2007
KMW Energy Inc.

Kokemki
Kvaerner Pulping AB Power Division
KWE GmbH Cement Plant
complete combustion
forced flow fixed bed gasifier 1.8 MWe 3.1 MWth
atmospheric circulating fluidized bed gasification
circulating fluidized bed gasifier
London, Ontario
Kokemki, Finland
2004
Gothenburg, Sweden
Rudersdorf, Germany
thermal energy
Rudersdorf, Germany
1995
Kwikpower International
La Crete Sawmills Lltd.
downdraft gasifier
wood fuel (combustion)
Toronto, ON
La Crete, AB

wood pellets
Lahden Lampovoima Oy
circulating fluidized bed gasifier
Lahti Energia Oy
Lakewood Industries
Langs Dehy
LanzaTech NZ Ltd.
Lauzon Recycled Wood Energy
Lauzon Recycled Wood Energy #2
atmospheric circulating fluidized bed Foster Wheeler gasifier 40-90 MWth
Licella Pty Ltd
LignoBoost AB
wood pelletization
wood pelletization
syngas fermentation
wood pelletization
wood pelletization
Catalytic Hydro Thermal Reactor (Cat-HTR)
lignin extraction from black liquor

Ear Falls, ON
wood pellets
Palmerston, ON
wood pellets
Glenbrook, New Zealand ethanol
Papineauville, QC
wood pellets
St Jean-Sur-Richelieu, QC wood pellets
Melbourne, Australia
Stockholm, Sweden
bio-crude oil, aviation biofuel
biomass fuel, agricultural waste,

wood waste, sludge, municipal solid
waste
waste wood, clean wood, msw
bark
biomass
wood chips, peat, municipal solid
waste
hog fuel
sawdust, waste wood, municipal
waste
lignocellulosics; wood chips, wood
waste, plastic waste
waste wood
waste wood
syngas, industrial effluents
waste wood
waste wood
wood
lignin fuel, thermal energy, electricity
black liquor
Aaen Consulting Engineers

Khosla Ventures, KBR, Bioecon, Catchlight,
Hunt Refining
Khosla Ventures, KBR, Bioecon, Catchlight,
Hunt Refining
Prairie Green Renewable Energy
33.5 kta
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Condens Oy, VTT
January, 2003 35 kta
Lahti, Finland
Lahti, Finland
1998
Foster Wheeler, Kymijrvi power station
BlueScope Steel
Gosford, New South

Wales, Australia
Backhammer, Sweden
Lignol Energy Corporation
organosolvent based hydrolysis, enzymatic saccharification and fermentation
Vancouver, BC
ethanol, high purity lignin, acetic acid, furfural, xylose
Lignol Innovations Inc.
organosolvent based hydrolysis, enzymatic saccharification and fermentation
ethanol, high purity lignin, acetic acid, furfural, xylose
alder, aspen, poplar and cottonwood Ferndale, WA
Liquid Lignin Company, LLC (LLC).

Lockheed Martin
Sequential Liquid-Lignin Recovery & Purification (SLRP)

wood fired boilers
Berwyn, PA
Charleston, South
Carolina
lignin
Losunoco, Inc.
two-stage dilute acid hydrolysis and fermentation & CO2 capture
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Ethanol, CO2,lignin, electricty
black liquor
sawdust, wood chips, bark
straw, bagasse, corn stover, waste
Lurgi Energi & Umwelt GmbH ; Lurgi/Essent
atmospheric circulating fluidized bed gasification, Lurgi Reformer, Geminox Process

30 MWe
Memphis, TN
hydrogen, syngas (MegaSyn), butanediol, gas-to-chemicals,

gas-to-synfuels, syngas production and purification, thermal
energy, electricity
lignocellulosics; demolition wood
Maine BioProducts
Biofine levulinic acid technology
levulinate fuels - esters using ethanol, methanol. butanol,

or mixed alcohols, formic acid, furfural, lignin char;
biochemicals
lignocellulose
Mantria Industries LLC

Manufacturing and Technology Conversion International,
Inc.(MTCI)
Martezo Renewable Energy
Marubeni Sustainable Energy, Inc.,
Marwood
reactor carbonization (pyrolysis)
biochar soil additive
treee waste
electricity, syngas, thermal energy

wood pellets
black liquor, paper mill sludge

wood
waste wood
Baltimore, Maryland
Poitiors, France
San Diego, California
Tracyville, NB
4.2 kta
UTEK
La Crete, AB
hardwood or softwood residues, and

Burnaby, B.C.
pulse enhanced steam-reformer gasification

countercurrent gasifier
wood combustion
wood pelletization
2012
1995
Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe eV;

Ministerium fr Ernhrung und lndlichen
Raum Baden-Wrttemberg (MLR);
Chemieanalgenbau Chemnitz GmbH; Lurgi
Gmbh, Mut GmbH
Pilot 2008
Ignite Energy Resources Pty Ltd, Norske Skog

Australasia, Applimex Pty. Ltd., Zymotech
Consulting Pty. Ltd., Martin Place Securities,
Virgin Australia
Dec., 2006
STFI-Packforsk, Chalmers, Sodra, Storan

Enso, Fortum, Nordic Paper, Swedish Energy
Agency, Weyerhaeuser, Metso Power - new
owner
2010 pilot
GE, Repap, Suncor Energy Products Inc., Oak

Ridge National Lab, UBC, Forintek, Suncor
Energy, Weyerhaeuser, HA International, PPG
Industries, Huntsman
http://www.lignol.ca/
0.35 kta
35 kta
Owega, New York
Geertruidenberg,
Netherlands
2005
150 kta
Amer Power Station, Lurgi Pilot CFB,

Zudersdorf Zement
Sequatchie County,
Tennessee
Carbon Diversion Inc.
Big Island, VA
ThermoChem Inc., StonChem, Georgia-Pacific
Springfield, NH
Masada (Oxynol) Resource Group, LLC
concentrated sulphuric acid hydrolysis and fermentation - CES OxyNol Process
Birmingham, AL
ethanol, gypsum, lignin and fly ash
acetone-phosphoric acid hydrolysis, thermophilic simultaneous saccharification and

fermentation - Consolidated BioProcessing - Cellulolytic Thermophile Clostridium
thermocellum DSM1313
Mascoma Corporation
Mascoma Corporation - Frontier Renewable Resources
Mascoma Corporation
Mascoma Corporation
Maverick Biofuels Inc.
McTara Lumber
MegaKone Oy
Menag Group (formerly Xylowatt)
Lebanon, NH

acetone-phosphoric
acid hydrolysis, thermophilic simultaneous saccharification and
ethanol
Lebanon, NH
ethanol
Lebanon, NH
ethanol
Lebanon, NH
gasification, Fisher-Tropsch catalysis

wood pelletization
30 kw to 500 kw heating stations
ethanol
Chapel Hill, North Carolina ethanol, propanol and butanol
Sheet Harbour, NS
wood pellets
Hellanmaa, Finland
thermal energy
Mercurius Biofuels
Meridian Biorefining Corporation
Messersmith Manufacturing Inc.
acid hydrolysis levulinic acid, formic acid, and the C5 sugars are converted to an aromatic
aldehyde
Ferndale, Washington
hydrolysis and fermentation

industrial combustion systems
Bark River, MI
Metso Power
bubbling fluidized bed, circulating bed and recovery boilers
thermal energy
Metso Power
circulating fluidized bed gasification; syngas in coal boiler
syngas, electricity
furfural, renewable diesel, bio-jet, bio-chemicals

ethanol, biodiesel, electricity
thermal energy
MondoVerde Biofuels
Expert services for business model improvement for bioenergy supply chains,
information technology services; data management, supply chain management from
Mikkeli, Finland
stump or field to boiler/biofuel refinery, forest work and terminal process management (Headquarters)
United Fuels Conversion Process: proprietary vacuum pyrolitic gasification and
liquefaction process
Raleigh, NC
Bioenergy ERP; MHG Power, MHG Forest, MHG SMS,

MHG Mobile, MHG Terminal, MHG Invoicing
hydrocarbon liquid fuels, methane synthetic gas, ash
fertilizer
Mossi & Ghisolf - Chemex Italia
enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation
cellulosic ethanol
enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation
cellulosic ethanol
enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation - PROESA process
cellulosic ethanol, lignin, power, bio-BDO
M-real Hallein AG
fermentation of evaporated sulfite spent liquor
ethanol
Mustus Energy Ltd.
bubbling fluidized bed combustion/gasification + low and high temp. steam turbine
Myriant Technologies
sugar fermentation
thermal energy, steam, 30 MW electricity

high-value biobased chemicals, including succinic acid and
D-lactic acid.
Nakkila Konnepaja Oy
1-10 MW Heating Plants
thermal energy
MHG Systems Ltd
LaCrete, AB
municipal waste, waste paper
wood waste, paper sludge, switch

grass, corn stover
Middletown, NY
Orange Recycling and Ethanol Production

Facility
Rome, NY
1.75 kta
Royal Nedaco, Tamarack Energy Inc., General

Motors Inc., Marathon Oil, Koshla Ventures,
Genecor, Frontier Renewable Resources, J.M.
Longyear; integrated with SunOpta BioProcess
Inc.
http://www.mascoma.com/we
245 kta
Michigan State University, Michigan Tech.,

General Motors Inc., Marathon Oil, Koshla
Ventures, Frontier Renewable Resources, J.M.
Longyear, Chevron Technology Ventures, Atlas
Venture, Flagship Ventures, General Catalyst
Partners, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins
Caufield & Byers, Pinnacle Financial Partners,
and Vantage Point Venture Partners;
integrated with SunOpta BioProcess Inc.,
Valero Energy
http://www.mascoma.com/we

grass, corn stover
Kinrose Plant 1:
Kinchelo, MI
deciduous wood
grass, corn stover

Monroe
County,Tennessee
biomass, MSW
waste wood
wood pellets
pilot
2003
2013
General Motors Inc., Marathon Oil, Koshla

Ventures
Cancelled
sawdust
http://www.mascoma.com/
PNNL, Whole Energy Fuels

Gulf Ethanol, Corp.; Dedini SA
wood chips, sawdust, bark, peat

wood chips, sawdust, bark, peat,
demolition wood, sludge, wood
residues, agricultural residues
wood residues; syngas co-fired with
coal
industrial wood, forest residues,

chips, pellets, agricultural residues,
waste
carbon based biomass
fibre sorghum, lignocellulose, corn
stover, straw, wood
stover, straw, wood
stover, straw, wood
sulfite black liquor from spruce wood
pulping
200 + projects
Vaasa, Finland
wood residues, peat, bark, sawdust
Energy companies: Vattenfall Kaukolmp Oy,

Kotkan Energia Oy,Savon Energia Oy Forest
Associations: It-Hme and Kanta-Hme +
Pirkka, Jrvi-Savo, Roine Chipping and
transport contractors: Factor Verde Ltd,
Hakevelhot, Hakeyhtym Kankaanmki Oy,
Kotimaiset Energiat Oy, Hakevuori Oy, Forest
Service companies: the biggest one in Finland;
Suomen Metspalvelu Oy + Matti Kukkola Oy,
A.Tiikkainen Oy, Metsenergia Meter Oy, BioEsme Oy Energy Cooperatives: Eno Energia
Oy, Metsenergia Oy, Municipalities: Mikkeli,
Loppi
http://www.mhgsystems.com
Many commercial
customers in various
European countries
Tortona, Piedmont, Italy
2009
0.2 kta
Novozymes
Piedmont, Italy
2011
160 kta
Novozymes
Crescentino, Italy
2012
Hallein, Austria
2016
600 kta
Nov., 2009
320 kta
wood waste, hog fuel,salvage, aspen

roundwood
LaCrete, AB
sugars
Vaskiluodon Voima Oy; EPV Energia Oy;

Pohjolan Voima Oy.
Dec. 2012
Lake Providence, La.
Novozymes, Genomatica
Precision Lumber Inc., Ridgeview Mills Ltd.,

Chiptec Wood Energy Systems, Recycled
Energy Development, Fuel Supply Co. Ltd.
PTT Chemical
Nations Energy Corporation

N.A.W.W.T. & Marketing
wood densification
wood pelletization
Netpro Renewable Energy

NewGen Fuel
Netpro IISc Gasifier

ethanol blending & distribution
New Green Technologies Inc.
catalytic activated vacuum distillation pyrolisis gasification, plasma enhanced

melter
Sainte-Foy, QC
wood pellets
wood pellets
India
Tampa, Florida
syngas
Cedarhurst Forestry Products Inc., Biosource

Power Ltd.
Kamloops, B.C.
waste wood
Chatel St Denis, DesiPower Orchha (P) Ltd, IIT

Delhi, Dewan Estate, DesiPower Mahanadi,
Dev Power Corporation, G.B. Engg Enterprises
(P) Ltd, DesiPower Baharbari, MVIT, . WSD,
G.B Food Oils, V.I.T., Asembo Bay Project,
Xylowatt, PSG College of Technology,
Poet, ICM, Crescent Oil
pallets, railway ties, demolition wood,
municipal waste, tires, algae
Enoch Reserve
Green Energy Solutions, Inc., Enoch First

Nation Band, Hatlar Group
New Page Corp.
spent liquor pulse-enhanced steam reforming gasification; Fisher-Tropsch GTL
Wisconsin Rapids, WI

black liquor, wood
2012
174 kta
Nexant Inc.
Nexterra Energy Corp.
deoxygenation of ethanol & biomass co-firing & gasification

Fixed bed, Updraft, Atmospheric Gasification
Washington, DC
Vancouver, BC
electricity, syngas, thermal energy

thermal energy
agricultural & forestry residues

wood fuel
?
Kamloops, BC
?
May, 2006
?
48 kta


Vancouver, BC
Vancouver, BC
Vancouver, BC
thermal energy
thermal energy and electricity
wood fuel
wood fuel
wood fuel
Victoria, BC
Columbia, SC
New Westminster, BC
June 2009
mid 2007
9 kta
90 kta

CHP: Fixed bed, Updraft, Atmospheric Gasification & Jenbacher Engines

Vancouver, BC
Vancouver, BC

thermal energy
Vancouver, B.C.
Missoula, Montana
NextStep Biofuels
Gretna, Nebraska
cellulosic ethanol
wood fuel
wood fuel
woodchips, bark, pulpwood, wood
waste
Nipawin Biomass Ethanol New Generation Co-operative Ltd.

Norampac
gasification and catalysts

bubling fluidized bed steam reformation gasification
Nipiwan, SK
ethanol
Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC) & Novi Energy
bioenergy
combined heat and power - Organic Rankine Cycle
acid hydrolysis and Gaian Starch Process
South Boston, Virginia

Ft. McMurray, AB
Vancouver, BC
electricity
cellulosic ethanol, lignin
steam reformation gasification, catalytic sysnthesis

Tigney application of Mason steam explosion, Thermal Shockwave System (TTS)
Process, Biomass Ethanol Separation Technology (BEST)
Cogen Combined Heat and Power
bioheat
Fresno, CA
ethanol, methanol, syngas, thermal energy, electricity
Nova Green Inc.

Npower Cogen
NRG Energy Inc.
Sherwood Park, AB
West Midlands, UK
Princeton, New Jersey
NSE Biofuels Oy
fluid bed gasification, tar reformer, Fisher-Tropsch Catalysis
NSE Biofuels Oy
Omnifuel Technologies
fluid bed gasification, tar reformer, Fisher-Tropsch Catalysis

? gasification
Otoka Energy Inc.

Pacific BioEnergy Corporation
Pacific Ethanol Inc.
Northlands Forest Products

Northwind Ethanol Inc.
Nova Fuels
agricultural & forestry residues;

black liquor
Alabama/Arkansas
?
Trenton, Ontario
500 kta
?
Sept., 2003
150 kta
waste wood
waste wood, hog fuel
cellulosic material
agricultural & forestry residues,
municipal waste
South Boston, Virginia

Ft. McMurray, AB
Prince George, BC
ethanol, xylitol, lignin

straw
biomass
switchgrass
syngas, electricity, biofuels, F-T liquids
lignocellulosics; forest residues
Varkaus, Finland
2009
210 kta
syngas, electricity, biofuels, F-T liquids

lignocellulosics; forest residues
Porvoo or Imatra, Finland
2016
100 kta
Citrus Heights, CA
fluidized bed gasification, methanogen reactor, acetogen, fermentation of acetate,

lignin gasification and hydrogenolysis of ethanol
pelletized wood
Eden River, Minnesota

Prince George, BC
thermal energy, syngas, electricity, green natural gas, liquid

transportation fuels
wood pellets
concurrent saccharification and fermentation of pretreated biomass
Fresno, CA
ethanol, wet distilled grain, biogas, lignin
Paracell Inc., ParaCell Systems

Paszner Technologies ACOS
Pearson Bioenergy Technologies
Tigney steam explosion technology

acid catalyzed organsolv saccharification, acidified aqueous acetone process
steam reforming gasification & proprietary Fisher-Tropsch catalysts
Peat Resources Limited

Peregrine Energy Corp.
pelletized peat
biomass fuelled cogeneration
Edmonton, Alberta
Surrey, BC
Aberdeen, MS
xylitol, sorbitol, glucose, fructose, arabinose, manose,

xylose, furfffural, lignin, cellulose
cellulosic ethanol, xylitol, lignin
peat pellets

waste wood
wheat straw, wood chips, corn
stover, poplar residues
250-550 kta
50 kta
Killam, AB
Louisiana
Cancelled
Medical lake, WA
Boardman, OR
The Price Companies Inc.

AGB Technologies Inc, SaskEnergy and the
Saskatchewan Research Council, Fulcrum
Bioenergy, Taho-Industrial Center- Sierra
Biofuels
Georgia pacific, TRI
Bios Bioenergiesysteme GmbH
Therma-Flite
2009
48.7 kta
1999
11kta
fall 2012
Neste Oil & Stora Enso JV, Foster Wheeler,

VTT
Neste Oil / Neste Jacobs, Stora Enso, Foster
Wheeler, VTT
Energy Products of Idaho, ZeaChem, ADI
Systems Inc., U.S. Energy Services,
Weyerhaeuser, Caris & Co.,
2011 Phase I
Aspen, wheat and barley straw,

sugar cane bagasse, tobacco stalks,
hardwoods
bagasse, waste wood
rice straw
Aberdeen, MS
Stephenville,
peat
Newfoundland
thinnings, harvest residues
Hartsville, SC
TRI - ThermoChemical Recovery International,

Inc.; Emerging Fuels Technology inc. FisherTropsch; Clean Tech Partners; AMEC
Western Kentucky Energy and Primenergy,
LLC
Tolko
Dockside Green, Vancity. Terasen Gas, Corix,
BC Hydro
University of South Carolina, Johnson Controls
Kruger Products Ltd.
General Electric Power & Water, University of
BC, FPInnovations
BioGasol ApS, Joint BioEnergy Institute
Sonoco
Perfect Fusion Energy Corp.

Petrobas
PHG Energy
Phoenix Energy
Pinnacle Pellet
Pinnacle Pellet #2
Pinnacle Pellet #3
Pinnacle Pellet #?
organosolv hydrolysis and fermentation

acid hydrolysis
downdraft sequential, co-current flow, gravity-assisted, thermo-chemical phase
change reactor gasification
pressurized downdraft gasification
pelletized wood
pelletized wood
pelletized wood
pelletized wood
Rossland, BC
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
lignin, xylose, ethanol

ethanol
hardwood biomass
castor bean cake, bagasse
LaVergne, Tenessee
San Francisco, CA
Quesnel, BC
Williams Lake, BC
Houston, BC
Prince George, BC
syngas
wood pellets
wood pellets
wood pellets
wood pellets
bioamss and coal

waste wood
Piroliza & Eco Energetica
biomass steam turbine
wood chips
wastes
MSW
lignocellulose, corn fibre, corn cobs,
corn stalks
lignocellulose, corn fibre, corn cobs,
corn stalks
Plasco Energy Group

Plasma2Energy
plasma arc gasification

microwave induced plasma gasification
POET
enzymatic hydrolysis
ethanol, biogas, lignin, DDG
POET
enzymatic hydrolysis
ethanol, biogas, lignin, DDG
Ottawa, On
Edinburg, Texas
thermal heat, electricity, syngas, cementious alternatives

syngas, synthetic oil
waste wood
waste wood
3.5kta
Pure Power Global Limmited, Community

Futures Development Corporation of North
Okanagan, Regional District of North
Okanagan
Gleason, Tennessee
Prince George
Motnica Kamnik,
Slovenia
Dunkley Lumber
Ottawa, ON
Monterrey, Mexico
Feb., 2007
Scotland, South Dakota
2008 pilot
Emmetsburg, Iowa
66 kta
51 kta
2011
NRC, HERA Holding of Spain

Plasma Gasification Corporation
State of Iowa, Iowa Power Fund, U.S. DOE
POET & DuPont
mild alkaline enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation
Sioux Falls, SD
ethanol
corn stover, corn cob
Emmetsburg, Iowa
Deere and Company, Diversa Corporation,

Michigan State University, Pioneer Hi-Bred
International, National Renewable Energy
Laboratory
Potlatch Corp.
? Gasification and Fisher Tropsch catalysis
Spokane, WA
wood residues, agricultural residues
Cypress Bend, Arkansas
Winrock International, University of Arkansas
Power Ecalene Fuels, Inc.

Powerhearth
Powers Energy One
downdraft gasifier with proprietary catalyst

fixed bed linear hearth downdraft gasification
gasification and fermentation
Lakewood, CO
Australia?
Indiana
syngas, electricity, biofuels, biochemicals

Ecalene (ethanol, methanol, butanol, propanol, hexanol,
alcohol mix)
ethanol
Lake County, Indiana
PowerEnerCat, Esatman Kodak

3i Alternative Power
INEOS Bio
Prairie BioGas Ltd.

Praj Industries
Premimium Pellets Sales
kiln gasifier
gasification and enzyme hydrolysis
wood pelletization
Regina, Saskatchewan
Maharashtra, India
Vanderhooof, BC
wood waste, algae

biomass
sewage waste, municipal solid
waste, tires, waste wood
Price Biostock
Sustainable Biostock Services
Powell River, BC
Primenergy LLC
Prince George Interior Waste to Energy
Princeton Cogeneration
PRM Energy Systems Inc.
atmospheric updraft gasifier & thermal oxidization

pyrolysis
wood pelletization
open core fixed bed gasification
Tulsa, OK
Princeton, BC
Hot Springs, AK
thermal energy, syngas, electricity, ethanol

bio-oil, bio-char
wood pellets
thermal heat, electricity, syngas, cementious alternatives
Procede Group BV
bio-chemical engineering
Ensched, Netherlands
glycerine - T butyl ether (GTBE fine particle diesel

emissions reductions), vitrosol (H2S removal), biogas
upgrading, styrene, solvent (CO2 capture)
PROCETHL 2G
mechanical, chemical, enzymatic, or thermal treatment research & development
Pomacle, France
ethanol
Proton Power, Inc.

Puhdas Energia Oy
Lenoir City, Tennesse

Tampare, Finland
syngas, hydrogen, thermal energy, electricity

Pure Energy Corp.

Pure Lignin Environmental Technology
CHyP gasification
Biocatalysis, metabolic engineering, bioreactor design and operation, purification of
biological molecules, biomolecular engineering
PEC technology, two stage hydrolysis and fermentation and catalytic thermochemical
conversion
Novel Catalytic Reactor Processs (NCRP)
Pure Vision Technology Inc.

Pyroforce Swiss Energy Technology
Pyrogenesis Canada Inc.
Pyromex AG
dilute acid and alkali/dissolved oxygen and enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation
high temperature moving bed downdraft gasifier & Jenbachers
plasma gasifier
high temp gasification, portable
Fort Lupton, CO
Switzerland
Quebec
Switzerland
PYTEC Thermochemische Analagen GmbH

Pytrade Canada inc.
Fast Ablative Pyrolysis

pyrolysis, thermal energy
Hamburg, Germany
Purdue University
thermal heat, syngas, electricity

syngas, ethanol
wood pellets
biomass sourcing, harvesting, drying, cutting, chipping,
shredding, blending
Stettler, Alberta
waste wood
wood chips, bagasse, straw
wood waste, rice hulls, sewage
sludge
harvest residues
waste wood
lignocellulose
woody waste, agricultural byproducts, and paper waste
wood
Georgia-Pacific, NewPage, Weyerhaeuser,

Range Fuels, Rayonier
Little Falls, MN
Prince George, BC
Pomacle, France
ARD, IFP, INRA, LeSaffre, Champagne

Cereales, TEREOS, TOTAL, ONF, CREDIT
Agricole Du Nord Est, Unigrains, CGB
2016
West Lafayette, IN
Paramus, NJ
Kelowna, BC
thermal energy, lignin, electricity, organic acids, furans,

aldehydes, esters
lignin, cellulose, sweet liquor
ethanol, xylitol or furfural or a purified xylose, cellulose,
lignin, electricity
syngas, electricity, slag
syngas
agricultural wastes, municipal waste,

wood waste
wood
Durango, Mexico
bio-oil, biochar, syngas

bio-oil, electricity
wood
wood wste
wood, wheat straw, corn stover

Municipal Solid Waste
waste biomass
Fort Lupton, Co
Nidwalden, Switzerland
Hurlburt Field, Florida
Germany
Dec, 2008
2005 pilot
Kitimat, British Columbia
0.2kta
Auburn University
Institute for Wood Chemistry of the Federal

Research Centre for Forestry and Forest
Products (BFH), CUTEC, TEC
Qteros (formerly SunEthanol)
hydrolysis and fermentation - Clostridium Phytofermentans
Hadley, MA
ethanol
corn stalks, bagasses, woody

biomass
Queensland University of Technology
soda pulping and ionic liquid based pretreatments, lignin reccovery, saccharification
with enzymes, fermentation of hexoses: research
Mackay, Queensland,
Australia
ethanol
lignocellulose, bagasse
Radhe Renewable Energy Development Associate
downdraft co-current fixed bed & open top updraft co-current fixed bed gasification
Rajkot, India
Radian Bioenergy
Integrated Atmospheric Novus-G Gasification Combined Cycle; torrifed wood
Salt Lake City, UT
Radian Corp.
Range Fuels, Inc.
atmospheric and pressurized integrated and combined cycle gasification
Austin, TX
Broomfield, CO
thermal energy, syngas, electricity, pellets

thermal energy, syngas, fuel cells, hydrogen, methane,
syndiesel, ethanol, methanol
syngas, ethanol, mixed alcohols, electricity
high temperture+high pressure anaerobic H20 shift gasification and catalytic synthesis
high temperture+high pressure anaerobic H20 shift gasification and catalytic synthesis
Broomfield, CO
syngas, ethanol, methanol, electricity
Rasmussen Mechanical Services

Raven Biofuels International Corporation
Solid Fuel Fired Boiler Plants

2 stage dilute sulphuric acid hydrolysis, C5 to furfural and C6 to ethanol
Sioux City, Indianna

Paramus, New Jersey
thermal energy
ethanol, electricity, furfural, lignin
waste wood
wood, pellets, hog fuel, bio-oil, biogas
Beetle killed wood

biocoal
wood chips and sawdust, crop

residues such as corn stover rice
hulls, energy crops, forestry logging
and thinning residues, coal fines,
harvest waste
bio-oil, electricity
wood residues and green waste
Recovered Energy Resources Inc.

Renewable Fuel Technologies
Gat-Cycle updraft gasification

mobile torrefaction
Renewable Oil Corporation

Renewable Oil International LLC
fast pyrolysis
fast pyrolysis
San Mateo, California

Surrey Hills, Victoria,
Australia
Florence AL
Renmatix (formerly Sriya Innovations).
Plantrose Process
Kennesa, Georgia
C5 & C6 sugars & lignin; xylose monomers and glucose

monomers
Rentech Inc.
Rentech Inc.
Rentech Inc.
Rentech Inc.
SilvaGas Corp. gasification, wax slurry-iron catalyst Fisher Tropsch

Los Angeles, California

Repotec Renewable Power Technologies
gasification
Umwelttechnik GmbH
Resource Optimization Technologies

Resource Recovery Corp.
Resource Recovery Technologies, LLC
Rimbey, Town of
RITE/Honda R&D Co.
Royal DSM N.V.
Rob Walt
RSE Pulp & Chemical, LLC
ORVERTER - high temperature incineration

thermal anaerobic gasification
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Mackay, Queensland,
Australia
wood, waste wood, demolition

debris, dedicated energy crops, bark,
charcoal, agricultural residues
wood chips, refuse, agricultural
waste
biomass, municipal waste, industrial
waste, tires
waste wood
Denver, Colorado
Range Fuels, Inc.
ICM Investors, VeraSun, Battery Ventures,

Camros Capital, LonRiver Venturees
2009
Soperton, GA
syngas, thermal energy, syndiesel, electricity

syngas, thermal energy, jet fuels, electricity
syngas, thermal energy, jet fuels, electricity
syngas, thermal energy, jet fuels, naphtha, electricity
cellulosic biomass
woody green waste and processed
sewage sludge
woody biomass
woody biomass
woody biomass
Rialto, California
Port St. Joe, Florida
Natchez, Mississippi
White River, Ontario
syngas
forest residues
Gothenburg, Sweden
wood blocks, sawdust, various

plastics, flax shive, hog offal, beef
offal, fish offal, beef spines, whole
chicken carcasses, cardboard,
rendering plant cracklings, whole
infant hog mortalities, various
fabrics, fiberglass and composite
parts, asphalt shingles, tires, railway
ties, waste oil and greases, old
clothing and sports equipment, oil
and cereal grain seeds, diapers,
latex paint, coated electrical wire,
household garbage, confidential
office documents, landscape
clippings, sludge
2010 pilot
0.17 kta
2008
2010
(closed
December
2011)
Smart State Sugarcane Biorefinery, Mackay

sugar Limited, Sugar Research Limited,
Viridian pty Ltd., Hexion
K2A Optimization Plant
396 kta
Merrick and Company; PRAJ Industries Ltd.;

Western Research Institute; Georgia Forestry
Commission; Yeomans Wood and Timber;
Truetlen County Development Authority;
BioConversion Technology; Khosla Ventures;
CH2MHill; Gillis Ag and Timber, The Price
Companies
175 kta
Kamloops Indian Band, Spectrum Energy
65 kta
Enecon Pty Ltd., Dynamotive
2013
Rialto Renewable Energy Center
2015
Goteborg Energi, CTU - Conzepte Technik
Umwelt, M+W Zander FE GmbH Repotec
Mesh Technologies Inc.

Environeta Solutions Inc
Eden Prairie, MN
bubbling fluidized-bed gasification (air blown and oxygen-enriched) & catalytic
synthesis
enzymatic saccharification and cornybacterium fermentation
yeast based fermentation
Rimbey, AB
Kyoto, Japan
Littleton, CO
syngas, thernal energy, electricity, ethanol, hydrogen

ethanol
succinic acid
fluidized bed gasification of hemicellulose extracts
Old Town, ME
ethanol
straw, municipal waste, wood waste

soft biomass
starch or cellulose
wood chips
hemicellulose from woody biomass,
mill residues
Rimbey, AB
2008
92 kta
Aspen Bioenergy Corp., Enerkem

Technologies
Cassano Spinola, Italy
Roquette Freres, Verdezyne, BP
Old Town, ME
University of Maine, American Process Inc.
DOE
http://www.ran
RTI International
Rugged Biochar Innovations
Savannah River Site
dual fluidized bed gasification, Fisher-Tropsch liquids research

pyrolysis
boiler, steam
Schwarze Pumpe Power Methanol Plant

SEKAB Industrial Development AB
SEKAB Group (formerly Svensk Etanolkemi AB)
SEKAB Group (formerly Svensk Etanolkemi AB)
Sermet Oy
Shaw Resources
SilvaGas Corporation
Silvana Trading
Slough Heat & Power
Sdra Cell Vr Pulp Mill
Solar Turbines Incorporated
Solena Group Inc.
Southern Research Institute
Spectrum Energy
SRI Consulting
Stadwarme Lienz Produktions und VertriebsGmbH
Synfining gasification & Syntroleum Fisher-Tropsch

dilute sulphuric acid and enzymatic hydrolysis of pulp liquor
Research Triangle Park,

North Carolina
Twin Falls, Idaho
Ormskoldsvik, Sweden
Finland
Shubenacadie, NS
Atlanta, GA
Standard Alcohol Company of America, Inc.

Steeper Energy Aps
Stora Enso Fors Ltd.
SuGanit Systems, Inc.
Sumitomo Joint Electric Power Co., Ltd.
Summo Steel Corporation
Sundrop Fuels Inc.
SunEthanol (now Qteros)
district heating, process heat and steam, combined heat and power (combustion)
pelletized wood
indirect gasification
small scale pelleting systems
Gas Turbines, Gas Boilers, Steam Turbines, Fluidized Bed Boilers
Metso circultaing fluidized bed gasifier 35 MWth
mid-range industrial 1 to 15 MW gas turbines
San Diego, CA
gasification & Rentech F-T
Washington, D.C.
Fisher Tropsch & water-gas shift catalysts, syngas cleaning, carbon to liquids research Birmingham, AL
B.C.
Green Chemistry, Renewable Fuels, Biotechnology Consultant
Menlo Park, CA
flue gas condenstation Organic Rankine Cycle CHP
fixed bed downdraft gasifier, air blown 0.27 MWe 0.41 MWth
downdraft gasifier 0.15 MWe 0.3 MWth
FICFB; allotherm; steam blown; gas engine 4 MWe and ORC 0.6 MWe
? gasification & fixed-bed methanization reactor
Durango, CO
hydrofaction reactor (super critical water process)
Copenhagen, Denmark
circulating fluidized bed
ionic liquid enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation with catalysts
Reston, Virginia
Kawasaki biomass power station
gasification
Burlington, Ontario
radiant partical reactor gasification
Louisville, Colorado
Q microbe for C3 process for simultaneous hydrolysis and fermentation
Marlborough, MA
SunOpta BioProcess Group

Sunpine AB
SunTechnics Energy Systems (Pvt) Ltd
Sur-Lite Corporation
Sustainable Power Corp. (SSTP)
SVG GmbH
Swan Biomass Company
Syncarb Energy Systems Inc.
SynGas Technology, LLC
SynGest Inc.
enzymatic hydrolysis & xylose + pentose yeast fermentation (Stake Process)

crude tall oil refinery and catalytic conversion to diesel
? gasification
proprietary catalytic process
fixed--bed or Endrainet flow or British Gas-Lurgi gasification
acid enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation
thermal anaerobic gasification
high pressure gasifier
oxygen blown expanding bed fluidized mode gasifier & syngas catalysis
Norval, ON
Norval, ON
Norval, ON
Pitea, Sweden
Bangalore, India
Santa-Fe Springs, CA
Baytown, TX
Spreetal, Germany
Glen Ellen, IL
Syntec Biofuel Inc.

Synthesis Scanarc Plasma Technologies AB
gasifcation & catalytic synthesis, steam-methane reforming

plasma gasification
Vancouver, BC
Stadtwerke Duesseldorf
Stadtwerke Konstanz GmbH

Stadtwerke Ulm/Neu-Ulm
syngas, synfuels
biochar
electricity
methanol, electricity
ethanol, electricity, lignin, thermal energy, chemicals
thermal energy, steam, electricity
wood pellets
thermal energy
electricity, combined cycle or separate thermal energy
synthetic jet fuel, naptha, electricity
syngas, liquid fuels
ethanol, furfural
Consulting Reports: Biochemicals,Technologies, Biofuels
Envirolene (mixed alcohol)
syncrude oil
ethanol
electricty
syngas, thermal energy, 30-150 KW electricity
syngas, cellulosic gasoline
ethanol
ethanol, butanol, xylitol and dietary fiber

ethanol
ethanol
tal oil, syndiesel
?
biocrude (Vertroleum)
syngas, electricity, methanol
ethanol, hydrogen , methane
electricty,
thermal
energy, carbon
black
syngas, thermal
energy,
electricity,
fertilizer,
heating fuel,
Minnesota
and renewable transportation fuels
San Francisco, California ammonia
lignocellulose
Research Triangle Park,

North Carolina
2016
wood chips, tree residues
wood chips, black liquor, bagasse

wood chips, sawdust, bark, peat
waste residue,
wood municipal solid waste, Belledune, NB
forest
agricultural waste and energy crops Burlington, Vermont
sawdust, shavings
waste wood
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Vr , Sweden
lignocellulosics; bark
biomass syngas
biomass non-food based
UK
waste products,
biomass, wood
Durham, NorthCarolina
mountain pine beetle salvage
Tyrol, Austria
Arnsberg-Wildhausen,
Germany
Konstanz, Germany
Neu-Ulm, Germany
Edmonton, AB
Fors, Sweden
ethanol, methanol, n-butanol, n-propanol

rice husks
non-food biomass
municipal
solid waste, waste wood,
coal
agricultural wastes, wood, biogasse
wood waste, plastics, rubber, MSW
cellulosic biomass
corn cobs, railway ties
biogas, wood waste and agricultural
residues
Municipal Solid Waste
System Johansson Gasproducer (SJG)
CCE-SJ Gasproducer
Johannesburg, South
Africa
Woodblocks, or Bio-Mass in hard

compacted briquettes, sourced from
forestry- and sawmill waste, agricultural
Bio-Mass, invader bush and alien trees
and plants
Tahtsa Pellets Ltd.
wood pellets
Burns Lake, B.C.
wood pellets, animal bedding
wood
75 kta
Battelles Columbus Laboratories
1987
2012
2003
2011
2011 demo
C5 & C6 yeast fermentation (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)
Lund, Sweden
Taylor Biomass Energy LLC

Tech V
Taylor Gasifier and steam reformation of syngas

organic methanogen reactors
New York, NY
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Tembec Chemical Group
separate hydrolysis / fermentation and anaerobic digestion research

fermentation of spent sulphuric black liquor
Lyngby, Copenhagen,
Denmark
Temiscaming, Quebec
ethanol
thermal energy, water gas shift equilibrium syngas,
electricity
green natural gas / methane
ethanol, biogas, lignin, hydrogen, methane
ethanol
52 kta
180 kta
2009
ZhaoDong, China
Varennes, QC
Little Falls, Minnesota
fall 2007
March, 2007
Cancelled
Biomass Engeneering Ltd., UK; Biomass

Energiesyteme, Dortmund
Repotec GmbH, Gssing
New Energies LLC
?
?
University of Toledo
JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
Spanner
RE2NG
GmbH
Chesapeake
Ventures Corp., Oak
Investment
Partners
ICM
Investors,
VeraSun, Battery Ventures,
Camros Capital, LonRiver Venturees
China Resources Alcohol Corporation;
integrated
Mascoma
Corporation
Greenfield with
Ethanol;
integrated
with Mascoma
Corporation
integrated with Mascoma Corporation
Chemrec, BioXylan, BioLime
Sustec Group
Imperial Valley Biorefining LC
Menlo, Iowa
Hofors, Sweden
2013
130 kta
The Weitz Company
1987 pilot
100 kta
ScanArc Plasma Technologies AB
CARBO CONSULT & ENGINEERING (Pty) Ltd
Burns Lake, B.C.
80 kta
agriculture and forestry waste
Ornskoldsvik, Sweden.
waste wood, municipal solid waste

syngas
Montgomery, NY
Sept. 2009
Lyngby, Copenhagen,
Denmark
Temiscaming, Quebec
2006
2003 demo
lignocellulose, straw, corn fibre

sulphite black liquor
500 kta
7 kta
Metso Power Oy, Juhani Isaksson

Caterpillar
Rentech Inc. F-T process
Raven Biofuels International Corporation, Pure
Energy Corporation
2010
Tall Oil Canada

Taurus Energy AB
Sustec industries Inc. and Syntroleum

Corporation
IDU
Democombine
commercial plant
3i Findland Oy
2011
2014 Demo 1
2016 Demo 2
Kanagawa Prefecture
bagasse, wood chips, recycled paper
wheat straw, corn stover, grasses,

oat hulls and wood chips
corn
corn
black liquor
North Carolina State University, University of

Utah
22 kta
Germany
bark, wood chips, sawdust

lignocellulosics
waste wood, biomass
lignocellulosics,
waste wood, clean
wood
agricultural waste
biomass,
lignite,
bark, wood
chips,peat
wood pellets,
sludge
biomass
wood
wood
biomass
corn stover, switchgrass, sugar cane
4.2 kta
Tahtsa Timber Ltd., Burns Lake Community Forest
Pioneer Family Timber Partnership and

Pinnacle Pellet
Sekab Group, Lund University, Chalmers
Technical University
Abengo Bioenergy, Sud Chemie, O'Neil Inc.,
Sanders Brothers
BioSystems, Cambi A/S, Novozymes
http://www.sunopta.com/biop
http://www.sunopta.com/biop
Thermochem Recovery International, Inc. (TRI) MTCI

Thermo Conversions
Thermogenics Inc.
MixAlco technology: lime & oxygen pretreatment, acid from microganisms converted
to carboxylate salts
combined heat and power solutions, Stirling engines, microturbines
FLU-ACE and DRY-REX waste heat recovery technology
atmospheric bubbling fluidized bed PulseEnhanced steam reforming gasification &
catalytic conversion
steam reforming gasification & catalysts
updraft air-blown co-current fixed bed gasification
Thermoselect SA
fixed bed oxygen blown high temperature gasification
Locarno, Switzerland
Thermoselect SA
Thermoselect SA
Thermoselect SA
Thermya
Three Dimensional Timberlands LLC
Titan Clean Energy Projects Corporation

TORSPYD torrefaction
pyrolysis
Firefly slow pyrolysis
Terrabon
Tez Enerji
Thermal Energy International Inc.
TK Energi AS
Topell Energy BV
Torftech (Canada) Inc.
Torftech Inc.
Torftech Inc.
Torftech Inc.
TPS Termiska Processer AB
Tsa Keh Dene first Nation
3 stage downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification

Wood Torrefaction with TORBED compact or expanded bed reactor
Drying & combustion in TORBED compact or expanded or transport bed reactor
gasification, TORBED compact or expanded or transport bed reactor
atmospheric circulating fluidized bed gasification
Bryan, Texas
Ottawa, Ontario
Baltimore, MD
Denver, CO
Albuqurque, NM
Saskatchewan
Gadstrup, Denmark
The Hague, Netherlands
Oakville, Ontario
Newbury UK
Newbury UK
Newbury UK
Nykoping, Sweden
ethanol, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, ethers,

aldehydes, mixed alchols, aromatics, cyclic, olefins,
gasoline, jet fuel, diesel
thermal energy
thermal energy, syngas, electricity, ethanol. methanol.
syndiesel, acetic acid
syngas, thermal energy, electricity, ethanol
thermal energy, syngas, mixed alcohols
thermal energy, syngas, electricity, hydrogen, methanol,
ammonia
ammonia
ammonia
ammonia
biocoal
biochar, biooil
biochar, biooil, bioenergy
lignocellulose, municipal solid waste,

sewage sludge, manure, agricultural
residues, energy crops
Bryan, Texas
pulp sludge
Uniforet Mill, Quebec
wood chips
Durham, NC
Port of Toledo, OH
wood
municipal solid waste, biomass
waste
waste
waste
waste
forestry residues
woody biomass
agriculture and forestry residues

torrefied wood
syngas, electricity, thermal energy
wood, wood chips, waste wood,

demolition debris, dedicated energy
crops
wood
biomass
biomass
wood
wood, straw
wood
wood waste
Karlsruhe, Germany
2009
February, 1999 225 kta
Tokyo-Chiba, Japan
Sept., 1999
Mutsu, Japan
April, 2003
Ansbach, Germany
Spain & France
Oregons Curry County
1.75 kta
2003
100 kta
Texas A&M University

DTE Energy Technoogies, Menag Group
ForEverGreen Enrgy Inc.
Southern Research Institute's Carbon 2 Liquids
Wiley Engineering, Pacific Renewable Fuels
ESP gas cleanning, Power Energy Fuels Inc.
Thermoselect Sudwest GmbH, Energie BadenWurttmnburg AG
Kawasaki Steel
Mitsubishi
75 kta
Grupo Lantecs subsidiary Idema; LMK Energy
Ag-West Bio Inc.
Netherlands
Mississauga, Ontario
Wroclaw, Poland
Netherlands
Wroclaw, Poland
2011
Pilot
Pilot
2007
2010
60 kta
samples
samples
8 kta
12 kta
Torftech Ltd.
Process Research ORTECH
Mostosal
Polow Energy Systems
Mostosal
Process Demo Unit Durham, NC
1.4 kta
Southern Research Institutes Carbon to

Liquids (C2L) Research Facility; Emerging
Fuels Technology Fisher-Tropsch
TRI - ThermoChemical Recovery International, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
thermal energy, syngas, electricity, transportation fuels
various spent liquors (kraft, sulfite, soda

and straw spent liquors; distillery spent
wash) and solid biomass and
carbonaceous matter, including paper
mill sludge, wood chips, rice hulls, saw
dust, grape plant prunings, pistachio nut
shells, municipal solid waste, refuse
derived fuel , sewage sludge, lignite and
sub-bituminous coals, low-level mixed
waste surrogates, wood wastes,
switchgrass pellets, poultry litter, swine
waste and olive pits
Baltimore, MD
thermal energy, syngas, electricity, transportation fuels
spent liquors, bark, forest residuals,

agricultural residuals and energy crops
Park Falls, WI
350 kta
Flambeau River Biofuels Project; Emerging

Fuels Technology Fisher-Tropsch

Trillium FiberFuels, Inc.

xylose utilization technology, iosmerization
Baltimore, MD
Corvallis, OR
thermal energy, syngas, transportation fuels

ethanol
spent liquors, bark, forest residuals,

agricultural residuals and energy crops
175 kta
New Page Corporation: Project Independence;

Emerging Fuels Technology Fisher-Tropsch
TBTAK MRC - ENERGY INSTITUTE - TURKEY
Down draft fixed bed and circulating fluidized bed gasifier and pressurized fluidized bed gasifier research
West Palm Beach,
COD Balanced Low Rate Anaerobic Digestion, biomethanisation reactors
Florida
UEM Group, Inc.
Umwelt & Energietechnik GmbH

University of Toledo
UOP, LLC
cellulosic feedstocks
syngas, F-T liquids
biomass /biomass coal blends; Lignite &

Biomass
Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey
2013
methane, electricity
pulpmill sludge & waste water
Whitecourt, Alberta
2012
Frieburg, Germany
Toledo, Ohio
Des Plaines, IL
2007
Des Plaines, IL

thermal energy, syngas, renewable diesel
syndiesel, green jet fuel, green gasoline

wood, wood chips, bark, charcoal,
waste wood
biofeedstocks
Helsinki, Finland
syngas, biofuels
UPM
? gasification
air/oxygen free gasification with noncatalytic steam second stage research
UOP/ENI Ecorefining Process
Carbona's gasification, biomass gasification and synthetic gas purification, Fisher
Tropsch catalysis
Frieburg, Germany
urbas Energietechnik
downdraft gasifier 0.150 MWe; 0.3 MWth
wood
lignocellulosics; waste wood, clean
wood, biomass
Valero Energy Corp.

Vanderwell Contractors
Ventec Waste to Energy Ltd.
APIs proprietary biorefinery

wood fuel (combustion)
cellulosic fuels and chemicals

wood pellets
pulpmill lignocellulose
Tomaston, Georgia
hog fuel
Slave Lake, AB
wood, demolition wood, waste wood
Slave Lake, AB
Suffolk, UK
TUBITAK MAM, ITU, MU, HABAS,UMDE As

Customer Institutions: TKI, EIE
ECO NRG Systems LP, Millar Western Forest
Products Ltd.
8.75 kta
Chicago, Illinois
Ruden , Austria
Red Lion Bioenergy

Gas Technology Institute
2001

Diamond Alternative Energy and American
Process Inc.
?
Verenium Biofuels Corp.(now BP)
dilute acid hydrolysis, steam explosion and separate fermentation
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA

VIDIR Biomass Inc.
Vider Machine Inc.
Vienna University of Technology
Vinking gasifier

updraft, atmospheric pressure gasification
? gasification
gasification, syngas steam reformation, Fisher-Tropsch catalysis research
two stage downdraft fixed bed gasifier
Cambridge, MA
Arborg, MB
Arborg, MN
Gussing, Austria
Vikinge Forest & Bioenergy AB
Wood Fuel Supply
Rimforsa,. SWEDEN
ethanol
pulp mill hemicellulose; agricultural

residues, forestry waste, municipal
solid waste, waste wood, dedicated
crops, bagasse
Jennings, Louisiana
2007 pilot
1.4 mgy
merger of Diversa Corp. and Celunol Corp., BP

Amoco PLC
ethanol

crops, bagasse
Jennings, Louisiana
2009 demo
1.4 mgy
merger of Diversa Corp. and Celunol Corp., BP

Amoco PLC
ethanol
thermal nergy, syngas, electricity
thermal energy
syngas, Fisher-Tropsch liquids

crops, bagasse
straw, wood
agricultural residues, straw
lignocelulose, syngas
wood chips, waste wood, straw
Highlands County,
Florida.
Arborg, MN
Gussing, Austria
North Bay, ON
VKW Kaufmann Reuthe

W2 Energy Inc.
Waermeversorgung Grossenhain /POW AG
Waste to Energy
dilute acid hydrolysis; pyrolysis steam reformation; or gasification and catalysis
Paso Robles, CA
Watertown Renewable Power LLC

Weiss A/S
Wellons Canada
two step gasification 0.5 MWe 1 MWth

wood-fired thermal oil
Surrey, B.C.
electricity
thermal energy
Wellons FEI Corp.
kilns and cogeneration step grate energy systems
Sainte-Julie, QC
West Biofuels
high heat, oxygen and steam at low pressure dualfluidized bed gasifier
Western Biomass Energy
enzymatic saccharification and fermentation
Rapid City, WY
ethanol
Western Biomass Energy
enzymatic saccharification and fermentation
Rapid City, WY
ethanol
Madison, WI
Toronto, Ontario
Repotec, Biomassekraftwerk Gussing

Technical University of Denmark
www.vikingeforest.se
Bio-heat, Combined Heat and Power, Pellets

moving grate and muffle burners, heat exchanger, counter pressure turbine,
cogeneration
transportable plasma assisted gasification, syngas catalysis
gasification 6 MWe 21 MWth
Vision Power Canada Inc.
aqueous phase reformation gasification & catalytic bioforming or dilute sulphuric acid
pre-treatment and enzymatic hydrolysis
2005
Consultant services aiming at solutions which optimize the

use of wood biomass, enable high degree of utilisation, lead Wood waste from logging and
to security in supply and low system costs of wood fuel.
sawmills
liquid transportation fuels, syngas, bio-gasoline,
monoxygenates such as alcohols, aldehydes, and ketones,
plus the reforming products of hydrogen and carbon dioxide,
paraxylene (PX)
cellulose, corn stover, pine residuals Houston, Texas
wood, wood chips, wood pellets,
thermal energy, electricity, pellets
shavings, agriculture residues
Reuthe Vorarlberg,
Austria
waste wood
thermal energy, syngas, electricity, liquid fuels
biomass, waste residues
lignocellulosics
Groenhain, Germany
municipal waste, agriculture waste,
ethanol, electricity, lignin, yeast, gypsum, furfural
demolition wood
Virent Energy Systems Inc.
Lykes Bros. Inc., BP Amoco PLC
Western Bioenergy Inc.
electricity
Western Bioenergy Inc.
electricity
West Fraser Mills Ltd.
electricity
West Fraser Mills Ltd.
electricity
wood pellets
tree branches, stumps, wood pallets

wood residues
35%-60% MC wood residues, bark,
shaviings, sawdust
clean wood; waste wood, clean
wood, biomass
corn stover, wood residues,sugar
beets, switchgrass
corn stover, wood residues,sugar
beets, switchgrass
sawmill waste, logging debris, fibre
from standing timber
waste wood
thermal energy, syngas, F-T liquids
2012
Shell Hydrogen LLC, Catchlight

Biomaxx
VER Verfahrensingenieure GmbH, Dresden

Bioenergy Development
Tamarack Energy,
DTU Copenhagen
Interfor
Hadsund, Denmark
Adams Lake, BC
Woodland, California
Upton, WY
2007
1.75 kta
KL Process Design Group, Baker Timber

Products
March, 2007
KL Energy Corp.
Hill City, WY
Fort Saint James, B.C.
Merritt, B.C.
Chetwynd, B.C.
Fraser Lake, B.C.
Westwood Energy Systems Inc.
wood pelletization
Kelowna, BC
Weyerhaeuser
Weyerhaeuser
high temperature atmospheric pressure combined cycle gasification

Organic Rankin Cycle
New Bern, NC
electricity, thermal energy, syngas

electricity
black liquor, waste wood

waste heat
New Bern, NC
October, 2003 ?
Greenville, North Carolina
Weyland AS
Woodland Biofuels Inc. (formerly Woodland Chemical
Systems Inc.)
strong acid hydrolysis, fermentation
Blomsterdalen, Norway
ethanol
Mississauga, ON
syngas, ethanol, electricty
WoodPower
downdraft Woodpower gasifier 0.35 MWe 0.425 MWth
thermal energy, synggas, electricity
lignocellulose, sawdust
wood & agricultural residues, pulp
sludge
lignocellulosics; dried chips from
waste wood
Blomsterdalen, Norway
gasification, catalytic synthesis, distillation - catalyzed pressure reduction (CPRTM)
Windhager Zentralheizung
WoodRoll
wood gasification (biomass) boilers and log gasification

gasification, membrane purification of syngas
thermal energy
wood pellets, split logwood

biomass
Chippenham, Wiltshire,
UK
Kista, Sweden
University of California
2010
Halifax,NS
Wila, Switzerland
0.63 kta
Chevron, Chemrec AB, US Black Liquor

Consortium
KGRA Energy
Norwegian Research Council, Fana Stein &
Gjenvinning AS, Sarsia Seed, Statoil
Thermo Design Engineering (TDE)
2007
EKZ
SDTC
UTEK, DDS Technologies, Aventine, Harris

Group, The Facility Group, ABGT Advanced
Biomass Gasification Technologies, Virginia
Tech process, Renewable Sirits LLC
http://www.xethanol.com/
Mascoma, Xylitol USA (Emerald Forest Sugar,
Inc.)
Xethanol Corporation
phosphoric acid/acetone hydrolysis & fermentation
New York, NY
ethanol, biodiesel, lignin, acetic acid
biomass waste, citis peels
Xylitol Canada Inc
steam and ion exchange extraction
Toronto, Ontario
xylitol
hardwood
XYLOWATT sa
open top downdraft co-current fixed bed gasification (0.3 MWe)
Charleroi, Belgium

wood, wood chips, bark, charcoal
Regal, Belgium
2002

Gazel, Belgium
2000
Charleroi, Belgium

Luik, Belgium
Lysaker, Norway
syndiesel
woody biomass
XYLOWATT sa
XYLOWATT sa
Xynergo
Charleroi, Belgium
Augusta, GA
Norske Skog, Viken Skog, Allskog, Mjsen

Skog and Statskog
Yamagata Green Power
Babcock & Wilcox Vlund A/S updraft gasifcation , Jenbacher engines
Murayama-shi, Yamagata
Prefecture, Japan
syngas, electricity
Cherry wood
ZeaChem Inc.
sulphuric acid hydrolysis, acetogen, fermentation of acetate, lignin gasification and

hydrogenolysis production of ethanol
Lakewood, CO
hydrogen, ethanol
poplar wood
Ze-gen Inc.
liquid metal (copper) gasification
Boston, Massachusetts
syngas,thermal energy, electricity
biomass, plastic carpet fibre
Boardman, Oregon
New Bedford,
Massachusetts
Ze-gen Inc.
Zelezniki
Zia Metallurgical Processes (ZMP), Inc.
zuChem Inc.
liquid metal (copper) gasification

biomass cogeneration
Thermal Reduction Gasification (TRG) Process - rotary gasifcation
fermentation
Boston, Massachusetts
syngas,thermal energy, electricity

thermal energy, syngas, electricity, syndiesel
xylitol
biomass, plastic carpet fibre

waste wood
Attlebro, Massachusetts
Zelezniki, Slovenia
Los Angeles, CA
Enzymes for cellulosic conversion

C5 & C6 Yeast
Enzymes for cellulosic conversion, Organisms for pentose fermentation
Jupiter FL
enzymes
Cambridge MA
enzymes
Rochester, NY
enzymes
Australia
yeast
Copenhagen, Denmark enzymes
Bergen op Zoom, the Nethenzymes, microorganisms
Dallas, TX
Murayama-shi, Yamagata
Prefecture, Japan
GE Energy
2011 pilot
Greenwood Resources, Firelake Capital,

CH2M HILL, Proctor & Gamble, Chrysler
Group LLC
2007 pilot
New Bedford Waste Services
2011
Attlebro Corporate Campus

154 kta
Supporting Industries:
Dyadic
Diversa (now merged with Celunol - Verenium)
Genencor
Microbiogen
Novozymes
Royal Nedalco
UOP, LLC
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Novel Cellulosic BioIndustrial Technologies and Products

March 27, 2012

Prepared by: Dave Pattterson

Abengoa Bioenergy, Biocarburantes Castilla y Leon, Ebro

steam explosion, enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation

ethanol, lignin, electricity

Abengoa Bioenergy Biomass

steam explosion, enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation; gasification

ethanol, lignin, electricity

Abengoa Bioenergy Biomass of Kansas, LLC

steam explosion, enzymatic hydrolysis & fermentation; gasification

ethanol, lignin, electricity

gasification and catalytic process

Agni Energy Services (P) Ltd.

updraft gasifier with indexing rotary grate 1.2 MWth

thermal enrgy, syngas

Agnion Energy Inc.

Heatpipe-Reformer indirect (or allothermal) gasification

syngas, thermal energy, electricity

Agnion Technologies GmbH

Heatpipe-Reformer indirect (or allothermal) gasification 32.5 MWth; 6.1 Mwe

syngas, thermal energy, electricity

lignocellulosics; waste wood

high temp. gasification & anaerobic bacteria fermentation

syngas, ethanol, electricity

corn stover, wheat straw,

Partners and Affiliations:

CIEMAT, University of Lund

LLC, Antares Corp., Taylor Engineering

LLC, Antares Corp., Taylor Engineering

WIT, EECA, Norwagian AgderBiocom

Waste Management Inc., Kleiner Perkins

waste wood, urban wastes

municipal solid waste/ agricultural

Bioengineering Resources Inc., Washington

syngas, thermal energy. electricity

ethanol, wet distillers dried grain

Alter NRG Corp.

Mihama Mikata, Japan

Westinghouse Plasma Corporation, Air

Alter NRG Corp.

Westinghouse Plasma Corporation, Air

Alter NRG Corp.

Westinghouse Plasma Corporation, Air

Alter NRG Corp.

Fox Creek, Alberta

Westinghouse Plasma Corporation, Air

American Energy Enterprises

dilute acid hydrolysis

New Milford, Connecticut

AEE Distilleries Inc.

ethanol, thermal energy, electricity

sulphite black liquor

thermal energy, syngas, electricity

waste wood, agriculture waste,

Alpha - Omega Environmental Inc.

American Process Inc.

Flambeau River Biorefinery, LLC

Arkenol Fuels, LLC (now BlueFire Ethanol, Inc.)

concentrated sulphuric acid hydrolysis with mild acid pre-treatment,

downdraft Kuntschar gasifier 0.13 MWe 0.26 MWth

Tamil Nadu, India

catalytic production of furfurans

gas turbines cogeneration