Diversified Energy earns new funding for biofuels gasification technology

In Arizona, Diversified Energy announced that the DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory has approved the second year of Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) funding for Diversified Energy’s OmniGas molten-metals based gasification technology.  OmniGas uses a 1300 degree C molten slag to gasify a wide range of hydrocarbon feedstocks (e.g., biomass, coal, petroleum coke, and wastes) for the production of an ultra-clean syngas.

This syngas can then be used for industrial process heating applications, converted into electricity, or synthesized into fuels or chemicals.  OmniGa has been demonstrated at bench-scale and is now on track for a one ton per day (tpd) prototype demonstration, using coal and biomass as the feedstock, in mid-2010.

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