Purdue researchers say up to 20 percent of US fuel from Fischer-Tropsh gasification of ag, forest, solid waste residues

Researchers at Purdue University have proposed a new gasification model to produce alternative fuels, hydrogen and electricity from municipal solid wastes, agricultural and forest residues. The “flexible carbon-to-liquids” process, according to the Purdue team, would target a wide variety of feedstocks and output a broad target of energies to minimize the price disruptions of producing commodity fuels from commodity feedstocks, and eliminate dependence of feedstocks that are also utilized for food supply. The research team found that a pre-processing of wastes and residues, followed by Fischer-Tropsch gasification, could replace as much as 20 percent of US fuel supply from 1.3 million tonnes of residues.

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