UOP, Ensyn form Envergent Technologies joint venture to make pyrolysis oils from biomass for power gen, heat and transport fuel

In Illinois, UOP and Ensyn announced the formation of a new joint venture, dubbed Envergent Technologies, that will market technologies and equipment for generating power, transportation fuel and heating oil from biomass using pyrolysis.

The joint venture was initially announced in prospect last September, and will utilize forest and agriculture residues as feedstocks in a Rapid Thermal process, where feedstocks are heated in the absence of oxygen, to produce pyrolysis oils that can be utilized directly in heating oil or power gen.

Pyrolysis oils can be refined into transportation fuel. UOP also owns a Renewable Energy & Chemicals business that produced green diesel using its Ecofining process, a well as renewable jet fuel from biomass.

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