Coffee roast residues to make biofuels, power, chemicals

January 6, 2012 |

In North Dakota, the Energy & Environmental Research Center announced they are working with Wynntryst, of Vermont, to develop a gasification power system using the waste from the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters coffee-processing plant.

Nikhil Patel, Project Manager and Research Scientist, stated, “The first step of the project is to demonstrate that we can gasify the complex mixture of waste and produce clean synthetic gas, or syngas, by utilizing the EERC’s novel advanced fixed-bed gasifier system on the biomass-residue mixture.”

The syngas will then either be utilized for production of electricity and heat or be converted to biofuels or chemicals.

Category: Fuels

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