Reliance Industries has been working on HTL technology for algae conversion to biofuel for last 5 years and recently have started extending their work beyond algae to other feedstock. With its inherent technological advantages over other technologies for treating wet biomass, Reliance says that “HTL has a potential to become a platform technology to treat many such wet feedstock and recover value-added co-products, water and fertilizer besides converting organics to fuel. It has potential to address the problem of energy-climate-food nexus.”
At the recent Algae Biomass Summit, Ramesh.Bhujade gave this overview on the “Experience with Hydrothermal Processing to Convert Algae to Oil”.
