Abstract
The EU Horizon 2020 project HiEff-BioPower (grant agreement No 727330, duration: 10/2016 – 09/2020) aims at the development of a new, innovative, fuel flexible and highly efficient medium-scale biomass CHP technology for a capacity range of 1 to 10 MW total energy output. It consists of (i) a fuel-flexible fixed-bed updraft gasifier, (ii) a novel compact gas cleaning system, (iii) a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and (iv) a heat recovery system. The technology shall be applicable for a wide fuel spectrum (wood pellets, wood chips, SRC, selected agricultural fuels like agro-pellets, fruit stones/shells) and achieve high gross electric (40%) and overall (90%) efficiencies as well as equal-zero gaseous and particulate matter (PM) emissions. After the initial technical system design has been developed during the first project phase until 2018 (presented at EUBCE 2018), new preliminary experimental data has become available, as well as preliminary techno-economic analyses and market studies. Based on this new data, for the EUBCE 2019 conference this paper presents consecutive results from the first stage environmental impact assessment.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 1586-1594 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2019 |
| Event | 27th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, EUBCE 2019 - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 27 May 2019 → 30 May 2019 |
Conference
| Conference | 27th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, EUBCE 2019 |
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| Country/Territory | Portugal |
| City | Lisbon |
| Period | 27/05/19 → 30/05/19 |
Funding
Thomas Götz1*, Mathieu Saurat1, Jan Kaselofsky1, Ingwald Obernberger2, Thomas Brunner2, Gerhard Weiss2, Blanca Corona Bellostas3, Christian Moretti3 1)Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Doeppersberg 19, 42103 Wuppertal, Germany 2)BIOS BIOENERGIESYSTEME GmbH, Graz, Austria 3)Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands *Tel: +49 202 2492-213; email: [email protected] ABSTRACT: The EU Horizon 2020 project HiEff-BioPower (grant agreement No 727330, duration: 10/2016 – 09/2020) aims at the development of a new, innovative, fuel flexible and highly efficient medium-scale biomass CHP technology for a capacity range of 1 to 10 MW total energy output. It consists of (i) a fuel-flexible fixed-bed updraft gasifier, (ii) a novel compact gas cleaning system, (iii) a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and (iv) a heat recovery system. The technology shall be applicable for a wide fuel spectrum (wood pellets, wood chips, SRC, selected agricultural fuels like agro-pellets, fruit stones/shells) and achieve high gross electric (40%) and overall (90%) efficiencies as well as equal-zero gaseous and particulate matter (PM) emissions. After the initial technical system design has been developed during the first project phase until 2018 (presented at EUBCE 2018), new preliminary experimental data has become available, as well as preliminary techno-economic analyses and market studies. Based on this new data, for the EUBCE 2019 conference this paper presents consecutive results from the first stage environmental impact assessment. Keywords: combined heat and power generation (CHP), gasification, biomass, fuel cell, environmental impact assessment. This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 727330 – HiEff-BioPower. The funding is gratefully acknowledged.
Keywords
- Biomass
- Combined heat and power generation (CHP)
- Environmental impact assessment
- Fuel cell
- Gasification
