Biomass to liquid (BTL) is a (multi step) process to produce liquid fuels out of biomass: Fuel is a material with one type of energy which can be transformed into another usable energy. ... Switchgrass, a hardy plant used in the biofuel industry in the United States In energy production and industry, biomass refers to living and recently living biological material which can be used as fuel pickle or for industrial production. ...

It mainly aims at using the whole plant to improve the CO₂ balance and the costs.

• Fischer Tropsch process is used to produce synfuels out of gasified biomass. While biodiesel and bio-ethanol production so far only use parts of a plant, i.e. oil, sugar or starch, BTL production uses the whole plant which is gasified by gasification. The result is that for BTL, less land area is required per unit of energy produced compared with biodiesel or bio-ethanol.
• Hydrogenation of plant oils (fatty acid esters) into alkanes, to produce diesel, first commercialized by Neste Oil as NExBTL.
• Flash Pyrolysis - producing sour oil, charcoals and gas at 450°C (also called anhydrous pyrolysis).

See also: Gas to liquid gasification Fischer-Tropsch Process for Synthetic Diesel Fuel The Fischer-Tropsch process is a catalyzed chemical reaction in which carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane are converted into liquid hydrocarbons of various forms. ... Synfuel is any liquid fuel obtained from coal. ... Gasification is a process that converts carbonaceous materials, such as coal, petroleum, petroleum coke or biomass, into carbon monoxide and hydrogen. ... This article is about transesterified plant and animal oils. ... The use of ethanol as a fuel for internal combustion engines, either alone or in combination with other fuels, has been given much attention mostly because of its possible environmental and long-term economical advantages over fossil fuel. ... Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants... Natural olive oil Synthetic motor oil Oil, in a general sense, is a chemical compound that is not miscible with water, and is in a liquid state at ambient temperatures. ... Magnified crystals of refined sugar Magnification of typical sugar In general use, non-scientists take sugar to mean sucrose, also called table sugar or saccharose, a white crystalline solid disaccharide. ... Starch is a complex carbohydrate which is insoluble in water, it is used by plants as a way to store excess glucose. ... For the water carbonator, see Gasogene. ... This article is about transesterified plant and animal oils. ... Petrol station logo Neste Oil is an independent Finnish oil refining and marketing company producing mainly traffic fuels and other petroleum products. ... NExBTL is a renewable diesel production process commercialized by Neste Oil. ... Simple sketch of pyrolysis chemistry Pyrolysis usually means the chemical decomposition of organic materials by heating in the absence of oxygen or any other reagents, except possibly steam. ... Gas to liquid or GTL is a refinery process to convert natural gas or other gaseous hydro-carbons into longer-chain hydro-carbons. ... For the water carbonator, see Gasogene. ...

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External links

• "Synthetic Diesel May Play a Significant Role as Renewable Fuel in Germany" at USDA FAS website
• Enzymatic Hydrolysis at DOE EERE website