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BIOMASS ENERGY.

THE CLEAN ANSWER

TO THE BURNING

QUESTION

POLYTECHNIK BIOMASS ENERGY

© Copyright 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



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


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


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


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


RENEWABLE WOOD ENERGY

only controlled

=

Clean

WOOD FUELS


Woody Biomass Fuels


$4 to $7 / GJ wood boiler fuel


$10 to $14 / GJ wood boiler fuel


Fuel yard


Fuel yard

• Biomass | Fuel Flexibility

Uncontrolled

Uncontrolled

Biomass landfill site


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).


Wood / Biomass in Austria

Sustainability by law since 1862


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)


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


Wood fuel


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


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


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



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


Emission Control


Health related cost in New Zealand:

$4.28 billion annually

Air pollution from fires, vehicles and

industry kills 1170 people prematurely

each year


Emission Control


PM10 WHO Limit Renewables reduce the dependence on fossil fuels

Dunedin

Nelson

Christchurch

Masterton

Auckland Northland


• - 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


Small District Heating


400 kW hot water boiler


Horticulture


Wood fuelled Energy Plant


Nursery near Christchurch



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.


Greenhouse – Victoria / AUS

…old system


1.6 MW HW – Victoria / AUS


2.0 MW HW – Victoria / AUS


District Heating – Finland


2.0 MW HW – Finland


Health Industry


Hospital - France


3 MW hot water boiler


Nursery - Christchurch

Average emissions: > 500 mg/m3

Resource Consent: < 230 mg/m3

Europe Limit: < 10 to 20 mg/m3


Nursery - Christchurch


Nursery with new boiler


Burwood Hospital - old coal boiler plant


Steam boiler 6 MW


Dairy Industry


Dairy Plant and District Heating


Fuel Storage


Steam boiler 6.5 MW


Steam boiler 6.5 MW

Load changes between 50 and 100%

within 15 minutes without dumping steam


AIRBUS Industries


Renewable Energy - France


Steam boiler 13.5 MW


Cogeneration


Power Generation - ORC


L’ORÉAL - Spain


ORC – 4.81 MW – 620 kWe


Sawmill - Germany


ORC – 4.8 MW – 900 kWe


Cogeneration - Austria


ORC – 6.5 MW – 1,100 kWe + 4 MW HW


Cogeneration - Germany


Steam CHP – 12 MW – 3 MWe


District Heating France 42 MW / 7.5 MWe

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