BIOMASS GASIFICATION TECHNOLOGY FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY Ch. Aichernig
Company
Renewable Power Technologies
Umwelttechnik GmbH
• Small Austrian Company
• Engineering and Power Plant Construction
• Reached a Breakthrough in Biomass Gasification
• Built the Güssing Biomass CHP Plant in 2001
Thermal Energy Conversion
Combustion Heat Steam Turbine
Electricity 12%
Heat 55%
Gasification Producer Gas Gas Engine
Electricity 25%
Heat 55%
CHP-Plant Güssing
• Start of Construction September 2000
• Start up November 2001
• Fuel Wood Chips
• Fuel Power 8 MW
• Electrical Power 2 MW
• Thermal Power 4,5 MW
• Electrical Efficiency 25 %
• Total Efficiency 80 %
• Investment 9 Mill. EURO
• Optimisation 1 Mill. EURO
Gasifier Engine
ORC
Dryer
Single Cycle hel = 25 %; htot = 80 %;
fuel = 8 MW
w = 15 %
el = 2 MW
h = 4,5 MW
Combined Cycle hel = 30 %; htot = 75 %;
hel = 33 %; htot = 70 %; Integrated Dryer
fuel = 7,3 MW
w = 40 %
el = 2,4 MW
el = 0,4 MW
h = 3,6 MW
h = 2,7 MW
hel = 25 %; htot = 80 %;
hel = 30 %; htot = 75 %;
hel = 33 %; htot = 70 %;
Optimization of the CHP Process
Wood Gas CHP Plant Senden
meister.architekten, Ulm | repotec, Wien | ETI, Heidelberg | Eproplan, Stuttgart
Biomass
Gasification
Producer Gas (gas engine, gas turbine,
fuel cell)
Synthetic Natural
Gas (SNG)
FT-Fuels(FT-Diesel)
Methanol
Hydrogen
others
Biomass
The basic concept –
“Green Chemistry”
Bio-SNG: Inauguration Ceremony
Inauguration, May 2009; from left:
P. Vardasz, Major of Güssing
N. Berlakovich, Minister of Environment
H. Nissl, Governor of Burgenland
Cooperation with GDF SUEZ and COFELY GDF SUEZ
• 2002: First contact and visit of the Güssing plant
• 2007: First engineering contract. Project in La Rochette
• 2008: Second engineering contract.
• 2009: Project CeGaz II
• 2010: Signature of a framework cooperation agreement covering R&D
and industrial projects
Start of the joint R&D project GAYA (supported by ADEME)
2010-04-28:
Signature of the Framework Cooperation Agreement
from left:
Jerome Tolot
COFELY, CEO
Ch. Aichernig
REPOTEC
Marc Florette
GDF SUEZ, R&I
© GDF SUEZ / Hebert Amaud
GAYA R&D Project
• Ambitious R&D project to produce heat ,electricity and SNG from
biomass
• Production of Bio-SNG as a transportation fuel until 2015
• 11 partners
• Duration: 7 years
• Total project volume: 42,5 Mio. €
• Supported by ADEME
Office Güssing: Europastraße 1, A-7540 Güssing Office Vienna: Nordbahnstr. 36/3/2.5, A-1020 Vienna phone +43 (0)1 2161895 fax +43 (0)1 2161895 15 e-mail: [email protected] web: http://www.repotec.at
REPOTEC – Renewable Power Technologies Umwelttechnik GmbH
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