TITAN and ASMARA: Two Carbon Platforms, Two Different Duties
Publish date: 27 April 2026
(Polska wersja poniżej.)
TITAN and ASMARA are sister platforms, but they do not perform the same industrial duty.
This distinction is extremely important.
Both systems are built around Hydrogen Producer Gas and carbon recycling. Both convert difficult carbon streams into useful industrial outputs. Both are designed to support Europe’s transition away from fossil carbon extraction.
But the feedstocks are fundamentally different.
And that changes everything.
TITAN is designed primarily around controlled renewable biomass, especially forest residues and other biogenic carbon streams. The feedstock is cleaner, more stable and more predictable. This allows TITAN to support advanced fermentation pathways including Renewable Natural Gas, ethanol, future SAF intermediates and wider industrial molecule production.
ASMARA is different.
ASMARA is designed around RDF and sorted municipal carbon streams.
That creates opportunity.
But it also creates risk.
Modern cities contain enormous quantities of recoverable carbon. Even after conventional recycling, large amounts of carbon-rich material remain inside municipal waste streams. If these streams can be processed safely, they represent an important industrial resource.
ASMARA is designed to recover value from this urban carbon.
At industrial scale, ASMARA can process approximately 70 MW of RDF feedstock to produce around 40,000 Nm³/hr of synthesis gas when RDF composition remains sufficiently consistent.
That is a very significant urban carbon recovery platform.
However, municipal carbon is not the same as controlled biomass.
Municipal waste streams contain uncertainty.
Even in highly disciplined waste economies such as Sweden and Japan, random disposal events still occur. Consumer products, household chemicals, solvents, oils, silicones, heavy metals and hidden contaminants can enter the waste stream unexpectedly.