Installation of an Energeo biomass power plant at a lumber company. Technical report, 27--29 June 1995

Conference · Thu Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995

OSTI ID:673754

Sanders, C F; Purvis, C R

Energeo, Inc. is engaged in a demonstration test program of its AGRIPOWER 200 unit fueled with biomass at Sutton Lumber Company in Tennga, Georgia. The objective of the program is to evaluate the operating and performance characteristics of the system using lumber wastes for fuel. The program is scheduled to accumulate 800 hours of operation over a period of 1 to 2 years. The program became a reality due to initial funding from the US Department of Defense`s (DoD`s) Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and the US Environmental Protection Agency`s (EPA`s) Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory (now referred to as National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL), Research Triangle Park). The AGRIPOWER unit operates with an open Brayton cycle using a fluid bed combustor and several heat exchangers to heat compressed air which in turn drives a turbine/generator (T/G) set. The T/G set, which includes the compressor and a recuperator, is a Solar Spartan unit packaged for this application by Alturdyne, Inc. The combustor utilizes both in-bed and freeboard combustion zones, and the above-bed zone is well mixed to provide uniform temperatures.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Sciences Research Lab., Research Triangle Park, NC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 673754
• Report Number(s): AD-A--350702/XAB; CONF-9506112--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

09 BIOMASS FUELS
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
DEMONSTRATION PLANTS
FLUIDIZED-BED COMBUSTION
GEORGIA
ON-SITE POWER GENERATION
PERFORMANCE
WASTE PRODUCT UTILIZATION
WOOD PRODUCTS INDUSTRY
WOOD WASTES
WOOD-FUEL POWER PLANTS