In-house research programs at the Product Development Centre have focused on fuel testing, process simulation modeling, direct firing syngas into boilers and lime kilns, testing new fuels such as biosolids, and syngas upgrading and tar removal for use in internal combustion engines. Future programs include syngas enhancement to produce bio-methane and other synthetic fuels.

The chart below illustrates the historic and planned progression of Nexterra product applications from simple thermal heating plants to displace natural gas to direct-firing retrofitted boilers and directly firing syngas into high efficiency gas engines and turbines.