Biofuels and biobased raw materials for an energetic future

The world is changing rapidly. Changes are visible everywhere, especially climate changes. Energy production and consumption is no exception to this rule. According to BTG-BTL, it is an illusion to think the world will be predictable in the near future. Change is inevitable. For example, fossil fuels like oil and natural gas are finite and will slowly run out or become too expensive. In 300 years, humanity nearly finished the earth’s oil and natural gas reserves that took millions of years to build up. This usage is associated with various consequences such as pollution and negative effects on people, the environment and the climate.

BTG-BLT is a member of Green Business Club Twente. Finding a sustainable way of living for humanity, although not all problems may be solved at once, is BTG-BTL’s mission. They envision that multiple sustainable solutions must be developed simultaneously. BTG-BTL developed and optimized pyrolysis technology. With it, the company can produce pyrolysis oil, a dark brown liquid, from biomass. The process is similar to the process used in nature, but what took mother nature millions of years takes BTG-BTL only two seconds. 

Pyrolysis technology is mature as it can easily be spread throughout the world by building factories. The product, the pyrolysis oil, can be used in boilers to produce heat and electricity when customers so wish. The oil can be used flexibly since production and usage can be separated (the oil can be stored for years without any problem). Worldwide many parties are interested in cooperating to increase the quality of the pyrolysis oil and to use this oil as raw material for sustainable petrol or diesel. According to BTG-BTL, the future is promising and challenging, both to themselves as their partners.