Title:
Cogeneration and Biofuels Production:a Combination of Innovative Technologies in Only One Industrial Site
Author(s):
Moriconi, A., Moriconi, E.
Document(s):
Paper
Abstract:
Tecnofin Group in the past decade identified and developed a “combination” of technologies based on slow pyrolysis process, that have been applied to virgin biomass for electric energy production (4 MWe) through a combined cycle and, at demonstrative scale of 200 kg/hr, to a wide range of organic raw materials: urban and industrial wastes, plastics, car fluff, tires, animal flour, polylaminates, etc. Recently, Tecnofin spa, as investor, and Risorse Nuove srl, as architect engineer, provided to develop an industrial integrated investment: cogeneration and biofuels production, through a combination of innovative technologies in only one industrial site, in Terni (Italy). The combination of technologies, based on pyrolysis and gasification process, is efficient, reliable for cogeneration and so profitable under economic aspects and allows recover residual biomasses and wastes as biofuels. The use, in only one industrial site, of solid residual wet biomass, sunflowers vegetable oil and residual plastics for electric energy production, of heat for drying purposes and district heating, of gasoline (from plastic material), of pellets and of pulverised dry biomass for burners, with an average project IRR of about 25%, is a truly satisfactory result. The relevance of the project is the applicability to many different contests of raw materials, at small and large scale, and to different scenarios of energy prices.
Keywords:
agroindustrial residues, catalytic conversion, pyrolysis, vegetable oil, biofuels
Topic:
Technology Deployment and Industrial Demonstration
Subtopic:
Bio-processes and bio-based systems
Event:
19th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
OB12.3
Pages:
2232 - 2237
ISBN-13:
978-88-89407-55-4
ISBN-10:
88-89407-55-7
Paper DOI:
10.5071/19thEUBCE2011-OB12.3
Price:
FREE
