TIGAS - producing fuel from waste wood

Topsoe’s TIGAS (Topsoe Integrated Gasoline Synthesis) technology can convert waste wood into synthetic gasoline. The TIGAS fuel is fully compatible with existing engines and fuelling stations.

 

TIGAS and the environment

This climate-friendly gasoline has the same fuel properties as gasoline based on oil - at comparable production prices. TIGAS fuel is produced from waste wood such as forest industry residue, urban wood waste and residue from paper production. About 60% of the energy in the wood is converted into fuel – a very high efficiency for production of bio fuels.

Case: TIGAS

Together with partners, Topsoe will demonstrate the TIGAS technology at the Gas Technology Institute in Des Plaines, USA, where a wood gasifier is already running. The TIGAS Wood-to-Gasoline project will convert 25 tons of waste wood into synthetic gasoline daily.

UPM-Kymmene will supply waste wood for the demonstration, and the oil company ConocoPhillips will show that the TIGAS fuel can be used within the existing infrastructure.

The American Department of Energy (DOE) has supported the project with 25 million USD under the US Recovery Act.

The demonstration is the last step before the technology will be made commercially available. In industrial plants more than 1,000 tons of wood will be converted into fuel daily, and the technology is expected to be commercialised as soon as the technology has been demonstrated.