Room: King Willem Alexander
Date: Friday, 22 May 2026
Time: 11:30 - 12:45 CEST
Session code 4DO.4
Innovative biomass pretreatment technologies
Recent Progress in Development of a Novel Nested-Piston Pressurized Feeder
Short Introductive summary
In order to make biomass viable as a feedstock in the synthesis of fuels and chemicals, it is necessary to carry out thermochemical conversion processes at high pressure (i.e. 20-50 barg). Promising thermochemical technologies such as pressurized gasification and hydropyrolysis integrated with hydroconversion (IH2) are nearing the point of large-scale commercial deploy-ment (such the Beaver Lake project currently undergoing the execution of a Front-end Engineer-ing and Design (FEED) package by SunGas Renewables). That said, the primary obstacle to wide and rapid commercialization of these thermochemical technologies continues to be the capital cost of the facility whereby the project seldom makes it past the final investment decision (FID) milestone.
Presenter
Johan VAN DYK
GTI Energy, Technology Dpt., USA
Biographies and Short introductive summaries are supplied directly by presenters and are published here unedited
Co-authors:
Z. Zahab, GTI Energy, Des Plaines, USA
J. Van Dyk, GTI Energy, Des Plaines, USA
Session reference: 4DO.4.1