UK consortium to develop waste to biofuel process
Mar 15th, 2010 | By Biofuel News | Category: Biofuel
A consortium of British businesses has been brought together by the Carbon Trust to develop a commercially viable process to turn municipal and wood waste into transport biofuel. The consortium, which will be led by Axion Energy, will work on the enhancement of the pyrolysis process to convert waste biomass into biofuel on a mass scale, to blend with fossil fuels.A key advantage of developing a process which will use existing organic waste, rather than plant crops, is that it overcomes many of the issues associated with some current biofuels, and can lead to even greater carbon savings by avoiding methane emissions from landfill. Carbon Trust analysis shows that the carbon footprint of this new pyrolysis biofuel could potentially achieve a carbon saving of 95% when compared to fossil fuels. This is a significantly higher carbon saving than some existing biofuels1 , which also do not currently factor in the impacts of land use change when calculating the carbon saving.