BTG Biomass Technology Group BV is a private company (SME) of consultants, researchers and engineers specialised in the sustainable energy production from biomass and waste. The company has a staff of approx. 35 people. Started in 1979 as specialists on R&D, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of gasifiers systems, BTG's expertise covers a broad variety of thermal energy conversion technologies (pyrolysis, hydrotreating, gasification, supercritical gasification, torrefaction, combustion, liquefaction, carbonisation), and has extensive experience and a strong involvement in European bio-energy R&D programs, in particular related to biomass pyrolysis, oil hydrogenation and gasification RD&D. The BTG lab is well suited to undertake all necessary activities pertaining to thermal conversion of biomass. Among its facilities are:

• 0.5 kg/h and a 5 kg/h lab scale units, a 250 kg/h pilot scale pyrolysis equipment (for flash pyrolysis)
• Two bio-oil hydrotreating units (fixed beds, 100 ml and 2 L volume, respectively
• Two supercritical gasification units (tubular bed reactors, volume from 200 ml to 3 L)
• PDU scale bio-oil combustion and gasification equipment (flame tunnel, diesel engine) and
• Laboratory analysis equipment for biomass and pyrolysis oil characterisation.