Gasification is not a new technology — the world has proven it for a century. Korea is now opening its first commercial-scale door, and ARK is the company opening it.
Unfamiliar in Korea, yet long a pillar of industry in world history.
Amid wartime fuel shortages, more than one million wood-gas vehicles ran across Europe. Turning wood into syngas to drive engines was already moving public transport.
Commercial plants across Europe and Asia — including the Danish B&W Vølund lineage — made biomass gasification a standard for district CHP.
Wuxi Powermax proved low-tar updraft fixed-bed gasification of the B&W Vølund two-stage lineage at commercial scale, building global references across Asia.
ARK launches Korea’s first commercial-scale biomass gasification power with four UFBG-4200 modules — a century-proven technology lands in Korea.
— Not a new gamble, but the overdue arrival of proven technology —
Not burned but gasified to drive engines — a class apart in energy-conversion efficiency.
Feedstock-to-syngas efficiency achieved by the UFBG-4200 — unmatched at commercial scale in Korea.
Total conversion with integrated use (power + heat + materials) — overwhelming versus direct combustion (~38%).
Weather-independent RE100 baseload — the power quality semiconductor fabs and AI data centers demand.
The official 3D film from gasifier supplier Powermax — the updraft gasifier, 2MW gensets (500kW×4) and tar-water treatment, shown as they actually work.
After reviewing global gasifier makers, ARK adopted the Powermax UFBG-4200 as its Korea-exclusive technology — four modules anchor SPC1 Nonsan, the core equipment for SPC2…N expansion.
Four modules instead of one large unit — availability by design, and the standard unit for SPC replication.
Low-tar design descending from the century-old Danish two-stage school — feeding engines gas cleaned to ≤5 mg/Nm³ tar.
First and exclusive in Korea at the ARK/SPC1 anchor — a technology moat extending to SPC 2…N.
Proven at Nonsan 10.2MW, replicated to Jincheon and Yongin — the physical base of the 1.4GW 2045 vision.
Cleaned syngas flows to 21×500kW SYN gas-engine gensets by ZZNE (Zibo Zichai New Energy) — a state-owned-lineage engine house with 64 export references across 25 countries, China’s only biomass-gasification power specialist — The other core machine completing the BE-CCUS power train alongside the gasifiers.