| Project Owner... |
Licella
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| Project name |
Commercial Demonstration Facility CS1
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| Status |
operational
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| Startup |
2021
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| Country |
Australia
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| City |
Somersby
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| Type |
TRL 6-7 Demonstration
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| Technology |
Hydrothermal Liquefaction
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| Technology additional information |
Cat-HTR (TM) Technology
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| Raw Material |
organic residues and waste streams
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| Input 1 |
Biomass residues
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| Input 2 |
Plastics
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| Output 1 |
bio-oil (1,800 t/y
)
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| Output additional information |
The CS-1 facility is capable of producing up to 1000 barrels of sustainable oil per annum.
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| Partners |
Licella has progressively scaled up its Cat-HTR™ technology on-site in Somersby over the past 17 years to become the world’s leading HTL platform. Commercial Stage 1 (CS1), is the small-scale Cat-HTR™ commercial facility commissioned in 2020.
The facility is operated by Licella in short runs to support the commercial projects globally, the Cat-HTR™ technology’s development and continuous process improvement. Licella also operates a small pilot plant dedicated to trials and technology development of mixed waste and plastic.
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| Technology Brief |
Whilst older thermal upgrading technologies, such as pyrolysis and gasification, were developed in a less carbon-constrained world, the Cat-HTR™ has been developed to retain as much carbon in its products as possible. This results in a higher efficiency process which produces a high quality, stable and energy dense oil.
By using water to control the thermo-chemical reactions, the Cat-HTR™ process operates at lower temperatures, using less energy, and retains more carbon in its products, compared to pyrolysis and gasification. This makes the platform well suited to our carbon-constrained world. By comparison, pyrolysis and gasification are uncontrolled reactions, resulting in a significant percentage of carbon from the feedstock ending up as either solid char or gas (CO2).
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| Additional Information |
The Cat-HTR™ is a powerful decarbonisation platform that produces high value, low-carbon products, such as renewable transportation fuels and biochemicals.
The CS-1 facility represents a universal HTL platform that has the ability to process the widest range of post-consumer biomass residues and plastics in the world.
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Last Update: 2025-12-10 11:34:59