Vancouver: Nexterra Systems Corp. and the University of British Columbia announced September 22 that they had signed an agreement to develop an advanced method of conditioning synthetic gas based on Nexterra’s proprietary biomass gasification technology.
Under the agreement, Nexterra and UBC will work together on a project to assess the potential for a new, lower cost catalytic process for removing tars from the synthetic gas produced by Nexterra’s gasification technology. Work on the project will be conducted both at UBC and at Nexterra’s Product Development Centre in Kamloops, British Columbia.
This project is the first formal research agreement between Nexterra and UBC under an overarching Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Project (BRDP). The BRDP is a joint Nexterra and UBC initiative announced in February 2010 that includes installation of a new biomass Combined Heat and Power plant on UBC’s Point Grey campus, as well as a range of teaching, learning and research initiatives.