Objective Electricity consumption is increasing in most countries within and outside the EU. Thus there is a demand to increase the efficiency in the electricity production. Electricity production by SOFC fuel cells is one road to obtain a high efficiency in electricity production. In order to meet this demand in a sustainable way, this project will develop a gasification technology that can produce gas for SOFC fuel cells. For gasification SOFC fuel cell conversion systems, based on biomass, the most cost-effective size is expected to be plants from 1 to 30 Mews. Electric efficiencies above 50% are expected. The main barriers are: Staged fixed-bed gasification producing a very clean gas cannot be up-scaled to more than 5 Math. The output gas from all other gasification systems without extensive and expensive gas cleaning systems is still to dirty to be fed into SOFC fuel cells, ·The price of SOFC fuel cells is still very high due to the technology's immature state and the lack of economies of scale. In order to overcome the first barrier, the objective of this project is to develop up scalable tar cleaning technologies based on char beds integrated into staged gasoliers. One char bed with bed material and one char bed with out bed material will be built and tested. The advantages of the two designs will be evaluated and compared. By implementing this technology gasoliers can produce a gas that can meet the requirements for fuel for SOFC fuel cells through reliable, up scalable and cost-effective staged gasification of biomass. The requirement of the gas quality for an SOFC fuel cell will be determined. Experiments with material from SOFC will be conducted to set up fuel cell specifications. Furthermore a long term testing of two complete integrated gasification-fuel cell stacks plants will be performed on woody biomass. Parallel to this, tar formation and decomposition as well as behaviour and removal of inorganic will be investigated. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energyengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energycoalengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectrical engineeringpower engineeringelectric power generationcombined heat and powerengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfuel cellsagricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomass Keywords Gas cleaning Gaseous biofuels Staged biomass gasification inorganics removal Programme(s) FP6-SUSTDEV - Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems: thematic priority 6 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SUSTDEV-1.1.1 - Cost-effective supply of renewable energies SUSTDEV-1.2.5 - New and advanced concepts in renewable energy technologies - Biomass Call for proposal FP6-2002-ENERGY-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator CENTRE DE COOPÉRATION INTERNATIONALE EN RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT EU contribution No data Address Cirad-forêt, 73 rue J.F. Breton TA 10/16 MONTPELLIER France See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all TK ENERGI A/S Denmark EU contribution No data Address Sognegraensen 2 GENTOFTE See on map Total cost No data ENERGY RESEARCH CENTRE OF THE NETHERLANDS Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Westerduinweg 3 PETTEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK Denmark EU contribution No data Address Anker Engelundsvej 1, Building 101A KGS. LYNGBY See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE France EU contribution No data Address 31-33 rue de la Fédération PARIS See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data FORCE TECHNOLOGY Denmark EU contribution No data Address Gladsaxe Moellevej 15 SOEBORG See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY, PRAGUE Czechia EU contribution No data Address Technicka Street No. 5. PRAGUE 6 See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data RISØ NATIONAL LABORATORY Denmark EU contribution No data Address Frederiksborgvej 399 ROSKILDE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data