Biomass gasification processes are more commonly integrated to gas turbine based combined heat and power (CHP) generation systems. However, efficiency can be greatly enhanced by the use of more advanced power generation technology such as solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC). The key objective of this work is to develop systematic site-wide process integration strategies, based on detailed process sim...

7 The UK whole-wheat bioethanol and straw and DDGS based combined heat and power 8 (CHP) generation systems were assessed for environmental sustainability using a range of 9 impact categories or characterisations (IC): cumulative primary fossil energy (CPE), land use, 10 life cycle global warming potential over 100 years (GWP100), acidification potential (AP), 11 eutrophication potential (EP) a...

Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is widely recognised as an important dioxide removal technology. Nevertheless, BECCS has mostly failed to move beyond small-scale demonstration units. One main factor the energy penalty incurred on power plants. In previous studies, this been determined be 37.2 %–48.6 % for amine The aim of study quantify adding hot potassium carbonate (HPC) te...

In March 2008, Keppel Seghers started the engineering, supply, construction and commissioning of a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plant in Åmotfors (Sweden). When completed in 2010 the plant will process close to 74,000 tons per year of household waste (average LHV = 10.5 MJ/kg) and limited quantities of (demolition) wood resulting in a yearly production of about 108,700 MW...

The Plant The Altbach/Deizisau CHP plant ensures reliable, economical and environmentally-friendly power supply. EnBW operates several plants at the site with a total output of around 1,200 MW, including the 476 MW coal-fired block HKW 1. The district heating generated supplies a considerable proportion of the industrial enterprises in Esslingen and Stuttgart, as well as private households in t...

The state-of-the-art solar power system technologies are presented. Various methods of capturing solar energy using solar collectors such as parabolic trough collectors and dish collectors are reviewed. Combined heat and power (CHP) systems driven by concentrating solar absorbers and supplemented by biomass boilers are proving to be the most promising methods of domestic power generation. μCHP ...

In developing countries like Pakistan, the capacity shortage (CS) of electricity is a critical problem. The frequent natural gas (NG) outages compel consumers to use electricity to fulfill the thermal loads, which ends up as an increase in electrical load. In this scenario, the authors have proposed the concept of a combined heat & power (CHP) plant to be a better option for supplying both elec...

In Sweden, district heating (DH) is quite well developed and is already mainly based on non-fossil fuels. Increased use of DH is therefore considered as a way of phasing out fossil energy for heating purposes. Furthermore, increased use of DH provides an increased basis for combined heat and power production (CHP). Considering that coal condensing is the marginal production of electricity in Eu...