A new EU enquiry project will design a novel humble - musical scale cogeneration engine using biomass to farm heat and electricity , which could mainstream renewables in the warming and cooling sector . The projection , called SmartCHP , has been launched in Brussels by ten partners let in European industrial ship’s company , Universities and creation expert , under the coordination of BTG Biomass Technology Group .
Bert van de Beld , Chief Technology Officer at BTG , said “ Currently , the vast bulk of cogeneration plants use natural gas and fogey fuels as their primary source . The SmartCHP organisation will provide a pocket-sized - scale solution for hospitals , universities , municipal building and countless industrial users that would care to apply an efficient alternative to fossil sources . With a marketplace potential of € 4 billion , and an reckon 85 to 95 % less Greenhouse Gas emission compared to fossil fuels , the installation of the SmartCHP technology in Europe can bring novel jobs , more renewables and mitigate climate modification . ”
The chief knickknack is the use of truehearted pyrolysis bio - oil from woody and non - arboraceous biomass in a converted diesel locomotive engine , which has been chosen for its high electrical efficiency ( more than 40 % ) . The engine will be plan to have high tractableness , imply that it can well operate with different loads and make more electricity or more heating as requirement change . This will be made possible thanks to the integration of a boiler and the use of bio - oil rather than solid biomass . As the SmartCHP system is hybrid , it can also be integrated with variable renewables , such as wind and solar . When the electricity provided by wind and sun is unavailable , the engine starts working on biomass , procure the supplying of renewables .
Fast pyrolysis has the vantage of being able-bodied to transform difficult - to - handle biomass of different nature – such as verge Gunter Grass , bark and husks – into a clear and consistent bio - oil , which is sluttish to store and use for bioenergy . Besides , the new Renewable Energy Directive introduced sustainability criteria concerning biodiversity , emissions and low collateral land use variety that will use to all pyrolysis bio - vegetable oil with no exclusion . This gain sure its production and its use in the project is sustainable .
One of the main challenge of the undertaking is that pyrolysis bio - oil is more erosive and thick than Rudolf Diesel , contains more weewee and is therefore more hard to ignite . Partners of the SmartCHP labor will work on limiting to the engine and the ignition organization of the bio - oil colour to overpower this issue . At the destruction of the project , married person will ramp up a demonstration cogeneration unit capable of running continuously for up to 500 hour in naturalistic precondition .
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