What makes EQTEC special
EQTEC is a leading licensor and innovator of syngas technology for clean conversion of the world’s waste into sustainable energy and biofuels.
Integrated.
EQTEC syngas technology works where others fail because EQTEC delivers a holistic waste-to-fuel process capability. More than simply equipment, EQTEC’s patented and proprietary capabilities include process modelling and control system technologies for real-time management of the end-to-end process and syngas tuning for the target energy application.
Versatile.
EQTEC designs for the real world. Its technologies accommodate a high degree of variability of waste quality and even permit mixed waste types. EQTEC’s process can be aimed at a wide range of energy applications, from electrical power to renewable natural gas (RNG), hydrogen, liquid fuels and other chemicals.
Efficient.
EQTEC’s process technology can convert over 60 types of waste into syngas for a clean input to a wide range of energy applications. Its longest-running installation efficiently converts mixed and complex biomass waste into electrical power and thermal energy at a ratio of 1.4 MWe and 2.0 MWth output per 1.0 tonne of waste input.
Decarbonised and circular.
The efficiency of EQTEC’s syngas, combined with the contained nature of the end-to-end process makes it well suited for carbon-neutral or carbon-negative applications. It is equally ideal for Industrial companies with waste they could convert into energy on or near their own premises as for Utility companies looking to decarbonise their legacy infrastructure.
Scalable.
The EQTEC difference is in its design and configuration of the end-to-end waste-to-energy process. With its modular approach and outsourced manufacturing, EQTEC can procure its equipment from any quality fabricators in the world and configure the build horizontally, vertically or a bit of both, to suit a range small-to-large scale requirements.
What is syngas?
Syngas is shorthand for synthesis gas, a blend of hydrogen, methane, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and other elements in trace amounts, derived through the chemical conversion of carbonaceous materials. The quality and relative quantities of these component gases in syngas is heavily dependent on the efficiency of the chemical conversion process that produces them, as well as on the input feedstock used as raw material for the process. Syngas itself may be used directly as a fuel or process gas, or its component gases may be separated and applied as sources of energy.
EQTEC technology
As one of the world’s most experienced thermochemical conversion technology and engineering companies, EQTEC designs, specifies and delivers solutions for clean energy from non-recyclable and other waste.
EQTEC R&D
EQTEC’s R&D programme is built on its long-standing relationship wiht the LERMAB facility at the Université de Lorraine in Épinal, France.
The ERBE (Équipe de Recherche sur la Biomasse Énergie) and LERMAB (Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur le Matériau Bois) team and laboratory form a research centre at the Université de Lorraine built around EQTEC syngas technologies.
For the past 20 years, ERBE has worked on thermochemical conversion of biomass and waste-to-energy. For the past 10 years, the team has worked with EQTEC to co-develop a gasification pilot plant based on EQTEC’s bubbling fluidized bed Advanced Gasification Technology and especially, EQTEC’s air-blown gasification capabilities for producing syngas for traditional, combined heat and electric power (CHP).
At the end of 2022, a wide range of new opportunities for both EQTEC and LERMAB was made possible with upgrade of the facility for steam-oxygen gasification, which supports advanced syngas applications. Now, beyond testing a wide range of waste feedstocks for combined heat and power (CHP) applications, we are able to also test for syngas that can support methanation for renewable natural gas (RNG), hydrogen separation, Fisher-Tropsch (FT) gas-to-liquid process for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other liquid fuels and even transformation into chemicals such as methanol or ethanol.
Because the EQTEC installation at LERMAB is an end-to-end industrial plant at small scale, rather than simply a test facility for part of the process, it is the ideal environment within which EQTEC can both test customer feedstocks and gasification processes as part of plant design and innovate its own technologies at speed.
Gasification:
Two types for different applications
Air-blown gasification supports electrical power and thermal energy applications, where the ratios of hydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide in the syngas is less critical for the offtake application. The LERMAB facility has had EQTEC air-blown gasification capabilities since its inception in 2015, and numerous trials are undertaken every year to validate and inform EQTEC’s and LERMAB’s capabilities and understanding.
Steam-oxygen gasification supports chemical applications such as hydrogen, renewable natural gas (RNG) and other advanced biofuel applications, where optimisation of the hydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide mix ratios is critical for efficiency and productivity of the offtake
EQTEC business model
EQTEC is a technology company providing new energy infrastructure and waste management capability through innovative design, equipment and expert services.
EQTEC deploys its unique, world-leading syngas technology through services, equipment and licensing. The four key areas of customer delivery are outlined below:
Design & Engineering Services
Equipment Supply
Contract manufacturing
Quality assurance
Logistics and on-site delivery
Commissioning & Operations Services
On-site inspection of EQTEC integration
Operations team training and support
On-site leadership of plant readiness and start-up
Performance testing
Licensing & Maintenance Support
Use of EQTEC process over plant lifetime
Data-based reporting, updates, alerts and analysis
Continuous improvement proposals and upgrades
Virtual and on-site maintenance support, as required
EQTEC syngas technology is scalable from 1 MWe to 30 MWe equivalent and EQTEC provides services and support across the lifecycle, working in concert with developers, contractors and EPCs, operators and owners.
Basic engineering (pre-FEED)
Front-end engineering design (FEED)
Estimations to support Financial Close/ FID
Final design & specification