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%

Gasification Concept

Steam Air

Biomass

Gasification Combustion

Producer Gas Flue gas

Charcoal

Heat

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

Bio-SNG:

1 MW Demo Unit

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

GAYA R&D Platform

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: c.aichernig@repotec.at web: http://www.repotec.at

REPOTEC – Renewable Power Technologies Umwelttechnik GmbH

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