TRI’s spent liquor and biomass gasification technology is the key to accessing multiple pathways to bio-based profitability through clean, green power and fuels from a wide variety of abundant and renewable organic feedstocks.

TRI’s technology, which processes any organic biomass, including spent liquors, bark, forest residuals, agricultural residuals and energy crops, converts organic carbon to a hydrogen and carbon monoxide synthesis gas (“syngas”) that can be used to displace natural gas, be burned in a combined cycle power generation system or be the fundamental building block for the production of biofuels and biochemicals. The TRI process is carbon neutral.

TRI’s biomass to syngas process can be used to displace or supplement existing chemical and energy recovery systems or integrate a biorefinery into a manufacturing process. The technology offers dramatic competitive advantages to industry in terms of energy efficiency, operating cost effectiveness, environmental compliance, new products, and new revenue streams. It is a key technology in moving the United States - and other nations – away from a dangerous and expensive dependence on dwindling and highly-polluting fossil fuel resources.

Much attention has been given recently to the emergence and implications of the rapidly increasing production of corn-based ethanol, and this product certainly has a place in our world’s energy policies. However, corn-based ethanol has many acknowledged limitations as compared to fuels derived from cellulosic biomass. In addition to the inferior energy balance and the attendant “food vs. fuel” crop competition, the production of corn-based ethanol requires massive amounts of water. TRI’s biomass-to-energy processes are not water-intensive and, in fact, our ongoing, large-scale work with Norampac in Canada is all done with the client remaining a “zero effluent discharge facility,” the highest standard for such a facility.

We are constantly striving to improve our technology, processes and practices; we utilize pilot plant facilities which allow for extensive pilot scale testing and process development on any biomass.