Cleaner, more efficient biomass gasification for renewable fuels and power

Bioleux Polska is the exclusive licensee of a process that it believes can cost effectively create a renewable form of CHP power and liquid fuels out of forestry industry waste and other inexpensive and plentiful organic feedstocks, including sorted municipal waste.

Bioleux claims its multi-patent protected filtration-free gasification process will enable it to produce its products in a CO2 neutral fashion, requiring little power input. It uses a corona-discharge electric process, breaking down complex organic compounds into residual CO2 and combustible CO and H2 (syngas). Chemically identical to fossil fuels and chemicals, its products are intended to be transportable in existing distribution channels.

Planning to develop and license equipment to others, Bioleux is also targeting becoming an independent electric power producer (IPP) itself, seeking funding for its own plants and selling power as a product into the grid. Its primary customers could be power utilities, which appear interested in purchasing its power—even if up to 25% more expensive than fossil-based natural gas—so as to make baseload renewable power without the more expensive proposition of building non-dispatchable wind or solar farms. There is enough available, accessible and renewable forestry biomass waste in the U.S., Asia and EU to displace a significant portion of these regions’ power demand, Bioleux says, especially in isolated areas currently experiencing very high fossil energy prices.

Configured as distributed, modular and infrastructure-independent power plants, Bioleux believes its equipment has the potential to improve quality of life through improved access to electricity and biofuels, using local feedstocks, with little fossil fuel-consuming transportation.