Clean energy solutions provider Rentech will construct the world’s first biomass Integrated gasification combined cycle (BIGCC) plant, for the production of electric power at it’s Port St Joe Renewable Energy Centre, in Florida, in the US.

The BIGCC plant will use the Rentech-manufactured SilvaGas biomass gasifier to provide synthesis gas (syngas) to an advanced high-efficiency combined-cycle power plant, to produce approximately 55 MW of renewable, low-carbon baseload electric power from about 930 t/d of woody biomass.

The company's SilvaGas and ClearFuels biomass gasification processes can convert multiple cellulosic biomass feedstocks into syngas for production of renewable fuels and power. Combining the gasification processes with the application of syngas conditioning and clean-up technology based on Fischer-Tropsch chemistry, cellulosic biomass is converted to synthetic fuels.

In addition, this process can also convert syngas from fossil resources into ultraclean synthetic jet and diesel fuels, specialty waxes and chemicals.

Rentech has selected construction company White Construction for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work that is intended to serve as a basis for a definitive lump-sum turnkey EPC contract.

The proposed project site in Northwest Florida has access to barge, rail and highways, and is in close proximity to the required feed stock.

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