Pyrolysis & waste wood
CHP for sites that need both kilowatts and process or district heat.
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Recent work
From workshop to working plant.
Selected programmes, applications and customer success stories — research consortia, greenhouse-gas removal and industrial delivery.
Recent work
Projects in development and operation
Horizon 2020
CAPTure / ASTERIx-CAESar
Modular concentrated-solar towers without the cooling and water burden of steam CSP. Grant 640905.
Open projectDESNZ
BIOCCUS
Community-scale greenhouse-gas removal with Ricardo and Woodtek — highlighted at COP27.
Open projectDelivery 2025
Taylors Farm
Bean-roasting plant with BB-80: installed and completing commissioning before 24/7 operation.
Open projectApplications
High quality heat even after generating electricity
Bluebox fits where the process still needs high quality heat afterwards.
Process heat
Biomass demonstrator was a malthouse
Grain, baking and malthouses. First demonstrator: 125 kg/s at 70 °C, 330 kWe, 15% ROI.
Open caseHorizon Europe
Concentrated solar power and compressed air energy storage
Modular towers, no steam cooling and storage that decouples the solar day from electricity demand.
Open caseEfficiency
Combined cycles
Hot air turbine then ORC. Up to 27.5% TBC in the 2 MWe class.
Open caseAlso typical
Where we are usually asked in
Industrial furnaces
Heat sources above ~760 °C where steam or ORC would throw the heat away.
Research & demo plants
Consortia and first-of-a-kind plants that need modelling, controls and commissioning as well as hardware.
Customer success
Stories from the floor
Bean roasting with BB-80
Woodtek, McArthurs and Bluebox at Taylors Farm — power plus ~800 kW air at 210 °C.
First patent with Ricardo
Pyrolysis waste heat driving CO₂ capture and feedstock drying.
Waste-wood CHP with AFS
Hot air turbines for UK businesses needing heat and power from waste wood.
BB-80 with integrated control
In-house Siemens S7 controls — first unit in Korea for a green-steel project.