Alchemy*

The Hillsborough Township Planning Board approved the application of Primus Green Energy for a pilot plant in connection with its biomass conversion process.

According to the June 2nd agenda, the applicant proposed to build a "...structure to contain processing equipment for a pilot plant in conjunction with the biomass conversion process...".

The pilot plant is a steel based structure (158' long by 26'4" wide) with a metal roof, approximately 4,160-square-feet and will be located on a 5+-acre lot on Homestead Road which also contains a 34,500-square foot building.

The Primus Green Energy conversion system is designed for developing a process to convert bio-mass (wood pellets) to a bio-gasoline by heating at high temperature. The wood pellets are commercially available bio-mass material composed of natural wood waste (i.e., bark and wood trimmings from a lumber yard).
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Primus Green Energy's website is here.

For more information, Biofuels Digest published a news brief April 22 2011 headlinedPrimus Green Energy plans biogasoline plant in New Jersey.

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*This post is called "Alchemy" because the HNJJ staff is scientifically challenged, particularly in the chemistry field, and all of this discussion of biomass may as well be alchemy:

"any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value."

- Dictionary.com

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From the HTPB agenda of June 2nd:

Primus Green Energy, Inc. – File # 11-PB-10-MSR - Block 200.04, Lot 6 – 219 Hillsborough Road. Applicant seeking Minor Site Plan approval with parking spaces ( 5 required, 17 to be provided) to construct a new 4,067 sf. structure to contain processing equipment for a pilot plant in conjunction with the biomass conversion process on property located in the LI District. (EC Review 05-23-11)