Carbon Trust issues £5m 'second generation' biofuel challenge
Fri 14 March 2008
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The Carbon Trust is calling for expressions of interest from potential partners within the scientific community to collaborate in the development of a world-class commercially viable pyrolysis oil upgrading process. The Carbon Trust says it will potentially invest £5m to one or more commercially-focussed research projects in this area of advanced biofuels over the next 3-5 years.
The Carbon Trust has identified pyrolysis oil from sustainable sources of biomass as having the potential to produce low-cost fuels with low system greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions - if it can be integrated into a conventional refinery. However, the properties of the oil produced from current fast pyrolysis processes are far from suitable for direct integration. The Pyrolysis Challenge aims to produce oil with the properties required for integration either by modifying the pyrolysis process to produce better quality oil directly; or upgrading the oil before or at the refinery.
The Carbon Trust is seeking a potentially wide range of working partners, who will commit some matching support to help deliver a breakthrough in this area. Partners may include refinery technology developers, catalyst developers and research organisations involved in the study of pyrolysis processes, bioenergy and relevant related disciplines.
Full details are available on The Carbon Trust website - see associated links.
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