A PROMISING POWER OPTION - THE FERCO SILVAGAS BIOMASS GASIFICATION PROCESS - OPERATING EXPERIENCE AT THE BURLINGTON GASIFIER

摘要

The Burlington Vermont gasifier is the first commercial scale demonstration of the FERCO indirectly heated biomass gasification process. The gasification plant is the largest operation of its type in the US and was the first process to integrate a biomass gasifier with a gas turbine during pilot operations at Battelle's Columbus, OH facilities. The Burlington plant is coupled to the McNeil station of the Burlington Electric Department and is being used to evaluate and demonstrate the gasification technology both as a producer of fuel gas and in a combined cycle with a gas turbine power generation system This paper discusses operating results at the Burlington site including gas cleanup/conditioning observations. Future Energy Resources, the owner of the gasification technology, is developing projects worldwide.