Italian firm selects Envergent

Des Plaines-based Envergent Technologies LLC, a Honeywell company, announced Tuesday that Italian power company Industria e Innovazione has selected the Envergent RTP rapid thermal processing technology for the development of a facility to convert biomass into a type of oil for renewable power generation.

Industria e Innovazione and Envergent have signed an agreement to pursue development of an RTP facility to convert a mix of pine forest residues and clean demolition wood into pyrolysis oil, a liquid biofuel.