The benefits of an AET Cogeneration Plant includes:
Determining the optimal design for a biomass-fired combined heat and power plant involves in many parameters such as optimal operating conditions, fuel, boiler, turbine, steam/water cycle, heat requirements.
AET can assist you in optimising the plant parameters as our expert employees have many years of experience and extensive knowledge of steam cycles, boiler systems and steam turbines.
The AET combined heat and power (CHP) plants can be designed for all types of biomass. The high efficiency, very stable electricity production and extremely high availability ensure a good business case for you as the investor. The design parameters below form the basic platform for our plants:
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Fuel heat input |
25 – 170 MWth |
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Net electrical power output |
7 - 60 MWe |
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Net plant efficiency |
45 - 90% depending on steam requirements and process integration |
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Boiler design |
Water tube boiler with natural circulation |
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Operating time |
At least 8000 hours without shutdown for manual cleaning |
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Boiler efficiency |
91% - 94% depending on fuel moisture |
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Emission values |
Better than European requirements (large boiler or WID) |
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Fuel flexibility |
Fuel moisture content: 10 - 57% |
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Auxiliary burner |
Not necessary |
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In-house power consumption |
<2.5% of fuel heat input |
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Availability |
Better than 96%. |
18% of all district heating for Linz, the third-largest city of Austria, is served by a biomass-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant.
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma KG, Germany, a 70 MW CHP plant, uses waste wood as fuel.
Woodchips on the way to the boiler.
