Objective
To demonstrate the technical and economic viability of advanced automated gasification, and its integration with CHP into a building. Using waste wood as a fuel. Use and long term effects of producer gas on modern high speed spark engines.
Demonstration of emissions from contaminated wood as being acceptable, or else finding acceptable treatments.
The project is to install a gasification process which will produce sufficient gas to generate 500kW of electricity from an engine and generator. The fuel to the gasification plant will be wood sourced from the local area and may be a combination of new material and recovered waste wood.
The plant will incorporate all the necessary processes to ensure that a cleaned gas is provided to the engine, to the engine fuel specification for contaminant loading and to meet required emission levels in the engine flue gas. Compliance with these limits will be demonstrated and confirmed by gas sampling and testing.
The plant will be designed to have a substantial amount of automation consistent with the long term needs to have a low manpower requirement. It is planned that the facility will be commissioned in essentially manual control initially and that the degree of automation will be increased as experience of the plant is gained.
1. Innovative technology
- Integrated skid mounted package
- Low fuel sensing
- Ceramic gas filters
- Engine maintenance and monitoring
- S.C.A.D.A.
- P.L.C. control of gasifier
- Automatic fuel grab and control
- Automatic rejection of incorrect fuel
- New engine induction system
- Multiple gasifier installation
- Lean burn engine technology on wood gas
- CHP scheme using gasifier and engine waste heat
2. Context in which technology is operating
The technology will be operating as a demonstration project in the industrial environment. It is intended to operate as near as possible to a commercial unit, whilst measuring inputs and outputs, both physical and monetary. The unit is operating on a factory site and will be required as far as possible to meet the demands of the end user.
3. Economic aspects of technology
There is no conventional equipment available which carries out the same function. Individual items of conventional equipment are available which carry out the separate functions, but no conventional equipment covers all areas. Economic comparison is therefore impossible.
4. Monitoring
Monitoring will be carried out to determinate the overall inputs and outputs of the system to determine the cycle efficiency, and also to determine the effect of the plant on the environment when compared with other renewable technologies.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electrical engineering power engineering electric power generation combined heat and power
- social sciences sociology industrial relations automation
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries forestry
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United Kingdom
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