Linde Engineering Licenses 'Carbo-V' Biomass Gasification Technology to Forest BtL Oy

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Germany-based Linde Engineering Dresden GmbH, a subsidiary of The Linde Group, announced January 24 that it signed an agreement to license its "Carbo-V" biomass-gasification technology to Forest BtL Oy, a Finnish biofuel developer, which will be deployed in a proposed biomass-to-liquid (BTL) facility in Kemi, North Finland. According to a statement issued by Linde Engineering Dresden, the BTL plant will have a gasification capacity of 480 megawatts and an annual output of about 130,000 tons of biodiesel and naphtha, using about 1.5 million tons of wood, a second-generation feedstock not competing with food production.