Logical Innovations, Siemens install new controls for USDA’s fast pyrolysis test system in Pennsylvania

In Pennsylvania, Siemens Energy & Automation and the USDA Agricultural Research Service announced a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to development improvements in a fast pyrolysis process used to convert perennial grasses, animal wastes and agricultural residues such as corn stover into bio-oil. Under the agreement, Virginia’s Logical Innovations will install a Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Box-based control system on the fluidized bed fast pyrolysis system at the ARS Eastern Regional Research Center in Wyndmoor, currently operating at bench scale. Fast pyrolysis produces bio-oil, char, and synthetic gas from biomass. The project will commence before the end of this calendar year.

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