Sentences with word «torrefaction»

While still in experimental phases, torrefaction produces a substance similar to coal, and is also energy intensive to produce.

Our renewable energy team has extensive knowledge in biomass power facilities, including woody biomass boiler - fired and gasification plants, municipal waste - to - energy plants, biofuels plants, anaerobic digestion plants, biomass pelletization or torrefaction plants, and coal - to - biomass conversion facilities.

PGE is said to be considering if it can replace all of the millions of tons of coal it burns every year at Boardman with plant based material that has been pre-treated through a process called torrefaction.

I'm stymied in my search for elegance - coming up with a way to utilize the syngas precursor that the woody feedstock to charcoal torrefaction process produces that's practical at the technology level of charcoal used for cooking, space heating, and «craft style» metal working and also operates well over a dispersed area with many small charcoal production operations.

Someone in your column comments mentioned torrefaction.

What emerged from their research is a version of a process called «torrefaction.»

Critics on the other hand cite that no commercial size torrefaction facilities exist and it is still not clear how much carbon will be used in the process of torrefaction.

Of very high interest to me are biofuels, photovoltaics, concentrated solar thermal technologies, biomass conversion, cogeneration, coal gasification, biomass densification, biomass gasification, torrefaction, and pelletization.