BTL (Biomass to Liquid) is a technology for synthesizing biomass into liquid fuel that has
been attracting attention as a method to produce clean and environmentally-friendly fuel. Through
this research and development, a partial oxidation-type entrained bed biomass gasifier suitable for
scaling up for future mass production was developed. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) also
implemented integration test of a biomass gasification and FT (Fischer-Tropsch) synthesis that
actually combined the developed biomass gasifier with a highly selective Anti-ASF-type FT
synthesis catalyst/process to verify the realizability of a system for producing bio jet fuel from
various types of woody biomass.
