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BIOMASS ENERGY.
THE CLEAN ANSWER
TO THE BURNING
QUESTION
POLYTECHNIK BIOMASS ENERGY
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POLYTECHNIK BIOMASS ENERGY
About us
Family business
Headquarters in Austria
Honoured with Austria’s coat of Arms
Export rate: >95%
Only European biomass boiler supplier with an established office in Australasia
Around 250 employees
First boiler in 1965
Installing 150 to 200 MW every year
30 to 50 boilers per annum ($70 to $80 million)
>3,000 reference plants
Polytechnik owns and operates wood waste and biomass fuelled energy plants
Head office in Weissenbach/Austria
Secretary of State Dr. Harald Mahrer with Polytechnik’s business owners Lukas Schirnhofer und CEO Leo Schirnhofer
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POLYTECHNIK BIOMASS ENERGY
Technologies
Tailored wood waste and biomass combustion and gasification solutions
8 different combustion solutions
Over 100 different furnace designs
Boilers from 300 kW to 30 MWth per unit
Heat transfer medium hot water | steam | thermal oil | air | flue gas
Energy plants up to 60 MWth
Power plants from 200 kWe to 20 MWe
both, organic and steam rankine cycle
Emission control systems
Fuel storage and handling systems
Ash handling equipment
Fans
Energy and heat recovery systems
FOSSILS VS. BIOMASS
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FOSSIL FUELS
Health related cost due to air
pollution
Water and land pollution
Health related cost in New Zealand:
$4.28 billion annually
…kills 5 million – costs $1.2 trillion USD
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FOSSIL FUELS
Renewables reduce the dependence on fossil fuels
Cost of protecting fuel supplies Wars, terrorism,…
Macro economic costs Financial crisis, oil shocks, recessions,…
It’s estimated that world’s coal power plants emit more
than 15 billion tons of green house gases and the energy
of to 4.5 billion tons of coal is dumped via condensers
and cooling towers - every year!
Thermal pollution
Centralised fossil
fuelled
power plants:
∼ 60% of the energy
is wasted!
Heat of around 50 million railway
wagons dumped every year!
…around 20 times around the world
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FOSSIL FUELS
Global Warming
Rising sea levels
Droughts
Server weather events
Starvation
Etc.
New Zealand’s Climate Realists:
“We are sheep and beef farmers farming off the East Coast of the North Island of NZ.
…we have to conclude that if any global warming is being caused by man,
the net effect is very small, and will not have any harmful effect on the planet.” - ???
NZ drought
2013 - cost:
$2 billion
IMF says global subsidies to fossil fuels
amount to $1.9 trillion a year
… and that’s probably an underestimate
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RENEWABLE WOOD ENERGY
only controlled
=
Clean
WOOD FUELS
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Woody Biomass Fuels
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$4 to $7 / GJ wood boiler fuel
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$4 to $7 / GJ wood boiler fuel
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$4 to $7 / GJ wood boiler fuel
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$10 to $14 / GJ wood boiler fuel
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Fuel yard
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Fuel yard
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Fuel yard
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Fuel yard
• Biomass | Fuel Flexibility
Uncontrolled
Uncontrolled
Biomass landfill site
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Wood / Biomass in New Zealand
Example: Clearing of 88 ha
∼ 200t/ha = 400 MWh/ha
= 35,200 MWh
…dumped into river banks
NZ: Erosions due to deforestation
NZ: 1.7 million barrels of oil equivalents rots to nothing (along with the GST and income tax potential)
each year on the flat forests of the Central North Island (Source Russell Judd / NZCEC).
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Wood / Biomass in Austria
Sustainability by law since 1862
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Wood fuel
Austria New Zealand %
• Population (million): 8.4 4.41 52
• Area (km2): 83,870 268,700 320
• GDP (billion USD) 418.5 142.5 34
• Land area covered
by forests (%) 47 31 211
• Total round wood
removals (m3) 26.9 26.6
Biomass Boiler Systems
• Number of households in Austria: 3,594,604
- amount of biomass boiler systems: 738,666 (20%)
• Other big groups are: district heating 23%, Gas 26%,
LPG and diesel 21% (goal is to replace those by 2050)
• Total thermal capacity of installed biomass boiler systems
in Austria: between 700 and 1,150 MW thermal per annum!
• Boiler plants >1 MW (large boilers) between 30 and 90 a year
(peak was between 2005 and 2007)
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Wood fuel
Austria’s timber industry at a glance
• 11.9 billion NZD turn-over (1 NZD=64 Eurocents)
• 1,489 companies in the wood and timber industry
(of them 1,200 saw mills) - nearly all of them privately owned!
• 28,606 employees in the timber industry
• Exports about 70% (8.3 billion NZD) - Imports 5.8 billion NZD
Solid Biomass in 2011
• Total sales of 2.3 billion NZD were generated by the use of solid biomass
• Bioenergy industry (solid biomass) employed around 14,200
NZ in 2008 – 5,800 were employed in mining
• 23 million cubic meter of biomass per annum for energy generation
• Biomass boiler, ovens and stoves market employs about 4,700 people (turnover of 1.6 billion
NZD).
• With more than 54% of the renewable energy sources, biomass is the most important energy
source.
• By using solid biofuels 9.2 million tons less CO2
• 24 domestic pellet producers manufactured 940,000 tons of pellets a year
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Wood fuel
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Wood fuel
Austria’s Province of Upper Austria
• Population: 1.38 million (3.3 x Waikato)
• Area: 12,000 km2 (48% of the Waikato)
• Economic activities: industry, service sector, tourism,
• 25% of the Austrian industrial exports
Renewable energy sources in Upper Austria
• Share of renewable energy: 34 % of total primary energy demand
(14 % hydro, 15 % biomass, 5 % solar & other renewables)
• Share of renewable heating: 50 % of total heating demand
• Avoided imports of fossil fuels: >1 billion Euro per year
By 2030, 100 % electricity & space heating will come
from renewables!
• reduction of heat demand by 39 %
• reduction of electricity demand by 0.5 %/year
• minus 65 % CO2 emissions
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Wood fuel
Employment and investments in biomass heating
• Biomass boiler industry in Upper Austria: annual revenue 530 million Euro
• Total employment in biomass heating: 4,500 jobs
• Annual investment in new biomass heating installations: 110 million Euro
• Annual sales of biomass heating fuels, incl. CHP plants: 90 million Euro
• Farming/forestry sector: 4,700+ farmers-forest owners deliver wood chips
CO Emissions
Efficiency
EMISSION CONTROL
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Emission Control
New Zealand 2012
Air pollution from fires, vehicles and industry
kills 1,170 people
prematurely each year
and causes
$4.28 billion
in social costs,
researchers have estimated
Problem
Inefficient boiler plants
Lack of air emission standards
for
PM10, PM2.5, CO, NOx, HC
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Renewables reduce the dependence on fossil fuels
Heat of over
55 million railway wagons
dumped every year!
Coal fired boilers inefficient coal boilers
open burning,
inefficient boilers,
and domestic fires
Asthma is the reality for
15% of adults and
20% of children
living in New Zealand.
One in six New Zealanders,
or 600,000 in total,
are diagnosed asthmatics.
2 to 3 times as many as
e.g. in Germany or Austria!
Emission Control
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Emission Control
Renewables reduce the dependence on fossil fuels
Health related cost in New Zealand:
$4.28 billion annually
Air pollution from fires, vehicles and
industry kills 1170 people prematurely
each year
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Emission Control
Renewables reduce the dependence on fossil fuels
PM10 WHO Limit Renewables reduce the dependence on fossil fuels
Dunedin
Nelson
Christchurch
Masterton
Auckland Northland
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• - 3 Mio. litre of diesel
• and 7 Mio tons of CO2 every year!
•CO: – 50%
•SO2: – 80 %
•CO2: – 90%
•2001: 100 buildings
•2004: 180 buildings
•2010: 375 buildings connected
•Start April 2000
•Commissioning December 2000
Program
District Heating for 2,400 people
Environ-ment
Emissions
2004
2010
PM10: – 95%
2001
Emission Control
REFERENCE PLANTS
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Small District Heating
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400 kW hot water boiler
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Horticulture
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Wood fuelled Energy Plant
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Nursery near Christchurch
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900 kW hot water boiler
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900 kW hot water boiler
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900 kW hot water boiler
K&L Nurseries now enjoys
energy costs of only $6
per gigajoule (GJ) –
sometimes even dropping
as low as $4 per GJ – less
than half the cost of coal.
Around 3,500 tones of
CO2 emissions avoided
every year.
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900 kW hot water boiler
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900 kW hot water boiler
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Greenhouse – Victoria / AUS
…old system
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1.6 MW HW – Victoria / AUS
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1.6 MW HW – Victoria / AUS
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2.0 MW HW – Victoria / AUS
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District Heating – Finland
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2.0 MW HW – Finland
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Health Industry
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Hospital - France
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3 MW hot water boiler
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3 MW hot water boiler
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Nursery - Christchurch
Average emissions: > 500 mg/m3
Resource Consent: < 230 mg/m3
Europe Limit: < 10 to 20 mg/m3
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Nursery - Christchurch
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Nursery with new boiler
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Burwood Hospital - old coal boiler plant
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Steam boiler 6 MW
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Dairy Industry
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Dairy Plant and District Heating
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Fuel Storage
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Steam boiler 6.5 MW
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Steam boiler 6.5 MW
Load changes between 50 and 100%
within 15 minutes without dumping steam
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AIRBUS Industries
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Renewable Energy - France
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Steam boiler 13.5 MW
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Steam boiler 13.5 MW
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Steam boiler 13.5 MW
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Steam boiler 13.5 MW
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Steam boiler 13.5 MW
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Cogeneration
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Power Generation - ORC
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L’ORÉAL - Spain
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ORC – 4.81 MW – 620 kWe
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ORC – 4.81 MW – 620 kWe
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ORC – 4.81 MW – 620 kWe
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Sawmill - Germany
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Sawmill - Germany
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ORC – 4.8 MW – 900 kWe
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Cogeneration - Austria
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ORC – 6.5 MW – 1,100 kWe + 4 MW HW
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ORC – 6.5 MW – 1,100 kWe + 4 MW HW
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ORC – 6.5 MW – 1,100 kWe + 4 MW HW
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ORC – 6.5 MW – 1,100 kWe + 4 MW HW
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Cogeneration - Germany
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Steam CHP – 12 MW – 3 MWe
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Steam CHP – 12 MW – 3 MWe
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Steam CHP – 12 MW – 3 MWe
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District Heating France 42 MW / 7.5 MWe
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