BTG-BTL sells its pyrolysis plant Empyro to Twence



Type of post: FLASH NEWS.

- Empyro, reference plant for BTG-BTL pyrolysis technology, will become part of Twence on 1 January 2019.
- The parties will continue working closely together to further develop the plant and explore new sustainable initiatives.
- The facility was opened in Hengelo (Netherlands) in May 2015 as part of the activities of the EMPYRO Project that was born to design, build and operate a 25 MW fast pyrolysis plant for simultaneous production of electricity, process steam, bio-oil and organic acids from woody biomass.
Press release: “BTG-BTL sells its first plant Empyro to Twence”, 12/12/2018.

Figure 1. The Empyro plant in Hengelo converts biomass into bio-oil, power and steam on a 24/7 basis (extracted from the press release)

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