Looking for a more sustainable way to heat your home? A new study has found that fast pyrolysis bio-oil causes up to 95% less greenhouse gas emissions compared to fossil fuels.
MEPs have adopted tighter rules on crop-based biofuels as they look to increase the sustainable use of biomass in the EU.
The transition towards a ‘bioeconomy’ is key to combating climate change. Making products and energy from renewable, natural (and local) resources will help reduce our dependency on imported, fossil raw materials. Read More
BTG Biomass Technology Group BV (BTG) is an SME of engineers, researchers and consultants, which for the past 30 years has specialised in the process of converting biomass into useful fuels and energy. They are based in Enschede in the Netherlands.
BTG Biomass Technology Group has spent over 20 years perfecting the fast pyrolysis process, which transforms biomass into oil. And they’ve got pretty good at it. Since 2015, over 20 million litres of fast pyrolysis bio oil have been produced at the commercial Empyro plant in the Netherlands. Currently this liquid is used as a fuel, but a new process will enable further processing of the liquid to make more valuable bio-based products.
Bio4Products was presented at the 2017 EU Process Industry Conference in Brussels on 19 September, organised by the SPIRE contractual Public-Private Partnership.
The European Commission announced a new series of actions on Circular Economy, including a strategy on plastics and measures to improve the production of renewable biological resources and their conversion into bio-based products and bio-energy.
BTG Biomass Technology Group, coordinator of Bio4Products, has helped develop a database of bio-based products, as part of its involvement in the research project InnProBio (www.innprobio.eu).
The European Commission has launched the Bioeconomy Knowledge Centre with the aim of collecting, structuring and making available a wide range of scientific evidence related to the sector.
This week is Green Week – the EU’s biggest annual event on environment policy – which focuses this year on ‘Green Jobs for a Greener Future’.