Objective
The objective of this project aims at a significant improvement of the potential to use energy containing biomass waste for energy production. Better means to burn coal-waste and biomass-waste mixtures with low emissions of heavy metals, nitrogen oxides, SO2 and chlorine compounds in fluidized bed boilers will be sought and predictive tools assisting at boiler design and use will be developed.
Details in the industrial objectives are:
* To create a strong basis for further development of the next-generation of low-emission multifuel combustion systems based on fluidized beds
* To replace a significant amount of coal by SWS in a CFB CHP plant. All SWS produced by the local municipal sludge plant (21000 tonnes a year) can then be incinerated
* To widen the spectrum of fuels used by coal and straw-fired CFB CHP plant to include SWS and paper sludge. 13000 - 20000 tonnes coal can be replaced annually by SWS.
* To develop a new on-line analyser for Pb and Cd analysis of the flue gas
* To provide clear guidelines for the industrial-scale combustion of the fuel mixtures studied To reach this goal, a group of well-known companies, universities and a research centre forming a complete chain from boiler manufacturers through research organisations to end users would like to join their R & D efforts in a common industrial project. The partnership involved in this proposal provides a strong element of continuity with recent and presen work sponsored by the Commission.
Due to their greater stability and ease of emission control of fluidized bed boilers, FB-combustion was selected as the preferred process route for this investigation. Fluidized bed boilers are more stable than grate boilers. It is proposed to improve understanding with laboratory-scale-, bench-scale-, pilot-scale and industrial-scale experiments by burning mixtures of well-characterized coals, biomass and different types of waste. More advanced analytical methods will be used and developed both for fuel characterization and for flue gas analysis.
The main innovations of this project are:
* A sounder technical basis will be established to develop FB boilers and to maximize the amount of waste in the fuel mixture in BFB and CFB combustion
* Better prediction tools are provided for boiler design
* Critical process and fuel parameters affecting the formation of emissions are found
* The optimal mixing ratio is found for each fuel mixture
* The limits of process conditions for each fuel mixtures employed are found
* Good indicators for unsuitable fuel mixtures are found
* Useful synergetic effects and reasons for these observations will be investigated
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels fossil energy coal
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electrical engineering power engineering electric power generation combined heat and power
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry halogens
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40101 Jyväskylä
Finland
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