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Chemrec is a Stockholm, Sweden corporation that develops technology for entrained flow gasification of black liquor and certain types brown liquor for production of biofuels from the resulting syngas.
Chemrec's technology for second generation biofuels has in the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme project Renew been shown to yield lower production cost than any other studied technology. EUCAR / Concawe / JRC's Well-to-Wheels analysis of future automotive fuels and powertrains in the European context shows that methanol and DME produced via black liquor gasification has extremely high well-to-wheels efficiency and very high greenhouse gas reduction.
The world's first BioDME plant was inaugurated in Piteå on Sept 9, 2010. On January 26, 2011, the European Union's Directorate-General for Competition approved the Swedish Energy Agency's award of 500 million Swedish kronor (approx. €56M as at January 2011) toward the construction of a 3 billion Swedish kronor (approx. €335M) industrial scale experimental development biofuels plant at the Domsjö Fabriker biorefinery complex in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, using Chemrec's black liquor gasification technology. This represents the largest public award ever to an EU second generation biofuels project.
Chemrec has for three consecutive years been ranked as one of the top 100 global greentech companies by the Cleantech Group and AlwaysOn (see Awards).