Airex Energy's $10 million facility, in Bécancour, Que., will produce biocoal and biochar, materials that can be used for combustible energy, water purification, soil remediation and metallurgy ...

Is wood the new coal? Some researchers now think so, and they working to turn woodchips into a substitute for coal by using a process called torrefaction that is greener, cleaner and more efficient ...

Construction begins soon in eastern Oregon for the first commercial-scale "torrefaction" facility in the country. If you don't know what that word means, you're in good company. But the process itself ...

Briquettes created through torrefaction, produced by NextFuel, can be used in a similar infrastructure to coal. In Joensuu, a city in Eastern Finland often described as the “Forest Capital of Europe,” ...

NORCROSS, GA--(Marketwired - Sep 3, 2014) - , VEGA BIOFUELS, INC. (PINKSHEETS: VGPR) announced today that its Joint Venture (JV) partner, Agri-Tech Producers, LLC (ATP) has developed a new and ...

Researchers have published a comprehensive review showing how a little-known thermal treatment called biomass torrefaction could transform ...

More biomass could be burned in coal-fired power stations if it was delivered pre-roasted to power stations, according to researchers from Leeds University. Many UK power stations are now burning ...