CNPC, China's largest oil firm, is not a newcomer to the bio-fuel field. It operates a 600,000-ton/year ethanol fuel project in Jilin and has also signed a framework agreement with Yunnan, Sichuan and Shandong provinces to develop bio-fuels.

Sinopec and CNOOC, the other two state-run oil firms, are also seeking opportunities to squeeze into the biofuel field.

Sinopec has built a bio-diesel production plant with capacity of 100,000 tons in Panzhihua city, Sichuan province. It has also invested 18 million yuan in building facilities with a production capacity of 2,000 tons of bio-diesel in Hebei province.

Last week [November 3] CNOOC announced that it will register an energy company in Tianjin Binhai New Area for investing 5 billion yuan in building 20 dynamic battery production lines.

Honeywell is a US-based company providing technologies on environmental protection.

Moreover, CNPC, one of the three largest oil and gas producers in China, will make evaluation on the installation of the demonstration UOP/Eni Ecofining process equipment in green diesel fuel production, and on the larger facilities in current or new refineries of CNPC.

Additionally, the two partners will team up in the design of an Ecofining device for the production of both green diesel and renewable jet fuel from Chinese biofeedstocks. The evaluation will also be made on the possibility of raising the energy efficiency of existing and new ethanol works in China.

Source: www.163.com (November 05, 2009)

Envergent will provide engineering for the facility which is projected for start-up in 2012.

"This project marks an important milestone for renewable power generation in Europe," said Mark Reno, managing director of Envergent Technologies. "A unit at Industria e Innovazione would represent a new energy option for the region that would utilize readily-available biomass residuals while offering a reduced carbon footprint."

"Compared to traditional biomass combustion technologies, RTP offers several advantages, including improved efficiency in power production, lower costs and a lower environmental impact," said Federico Caporale, CEO of Industria e Innovazione.

The RTP process works by rapidly heating biomass such as wood chips or straw at ambient pressure to generate high yields of pourable, liquid pyrolysis oil. This oil can then be burned for energy in industrial burners and furnaces for heat or used to generate electricity. Envergent Technologies is also focused on development and commercialization of technology to further refine pyrolysis oil into renewable transportation fuels like green gasoline, green diesel and green jet fuel, and plans to have the technology available for license by 2012.

Envergent Technologies is a joint venture of UOP and Ensyn Corp. It combines nearly 100 years of refining and process technology development from UOP, a Honeywell company, and more than 25 years of pyrolysis technology experience from Ensyn Corp. RTP is currently in use in seven commercial biomass processing plants in the U.S. and Canada.

Ensyn is a world leader for the production of pyrolysis oil from biomass and has more than 20 years of commercial experience with its RTP technology. It produces pyrolysis oil for various natural chemical and fuel products in seven commercial biomass plants in the US and Canada.

Honeywell's UOP is a leading international supplier and licensor of process technology, catalysts, adsorbents, process plants, and consulting services to the petroleum refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries. It has been active in the development and licensing of renewable fuel technologies since 2006 and currently offers technology for the production of green diesel fuel and green jet fuel.

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