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.
Related post: “EMPYRO
Project – New commercial scale fast pyrolysis plant”, 19/6/2015.
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)