ADVANCED BIO-BASED PRODUCTS ENGINEERED FOR BIG INDUSTRIES.

Developed by industrial engineers at Valmet, modified for environment by Power Wood, our pellet plant facilities pressurize and autohydrolyze waste stream wood with 230°C steam – before instant depressurization explodes it into energy-rich homogenous granules.

Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin are separated. Hemicellulose is degraded. Pentose sugars are refined into bio-chemical furfural. Glucose stays in the exploded granules. And energy-rich, glue-like lignin packs them out. 

An industrially fed loop, running 24/7, produces activated black biofuel grain for pelleting into bulk-dense, durable and waterproof biofuel for utilities and factories.

Market-leading industrial engineers Valmet developed BioTrac™’s continuous steam explosion process to produce best-in-class biofuel as a viable, utility-scale alternative to the fossil fuel.

Valmet’s pioneering system autohydrolizes fire-damaged deadwood with steam in a pressurized reactor, before instant depressurization shatters its bio-structure into lignin-rich biofuel grain and pelletization produces durable, waterproof, energy-dense pellets.

Power Wood has taken the opportunity to use BioTrac™ technology for upgrading low-value, low-cost natural waste stream wood into a premium advanced biofuel that supersedes coal.

The facility’s energy-efficient heat and power system is fuelled with residual wood and bark chippings. The system generates enough energy for the steam reactor, and surplus to sell to the grid.

BioTrac™ explodes aspen heart and sap wood from fire-damaged forests at cellular level. It removes lower calorie hemicellulose and refines cellulose carbohydrates into lignin-rich activated, premium biofuel. Pentose sugars are extracted to make furfural.

The end product is the market’s most advanced black pellet with comparable mechanical strength, water-resistance and energy release to coal. But with no local pollution and a 94 percent smaller carbon footprint.

Our Wilhelmina steam explosion facility in Malaysia produces advanced black pellets from agricultural waste that would otherwise decay and release methane or be incinerated and release carbon dioxide.

Empty fruit bunches, supplemented occasionally with coconut husks and oil palm trunks, are put through Valmet’s Biotrac™ refinery process in the port city of Kuantan – to assess offtake for energy density, hydrophobicity, durability, ash content, carbon content and consistency.

After assessment, biofuel is readied for markets in Japan and South Korea as standardized, leading-edge pellets or briquettes - and then transported to dockside for transfer across the South China Sea.