Verification of the Performance of Future Energy Resources’ SilvaGas Biomass Gasifier -- Operating Experience in the Vermont Gasifier

The Burlington, Vermont gasifier is the first commercial scale demonstration of Future Energy Resources SilvaGas biomass gasification process. The gasification plant is the largest operation of its type in the United States. The Burlington plant is coupled to the McNeil station of the Burlington Electric Department and is being used to evaluate and demonstrate the gasification technology both as a producer of fuel gas and in a combined cycle with a gas turbine power generation system. The SilvaGas process was the first process to integrate a biomass gasifier with a gas turbine during pilot operations at Battelle’s Columbus, OH facilities.