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Biofuels and bioenergy at
VTT
Overview presentation
Marko Nokkala + entire research area
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
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Contents
Process offering at glance
Combustion CFB
Gasification
(Fast) pyrolysis
CFD modelling
Techno-economical assessments
Examples and references
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Process offering at
glance
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Process concepts expertise at VTT
Thermochemical energy conversion
technologies
Combined Heat, Power and Cooling
Carbon capture and storage
Biomass resources and production chain
Energy systems and integration
Energy policy and support schemes
Novel energy concepts, solar hybrid technologies
Bio-economy, micro and macro algae
Waste to energy, Fuel Cells applications
Case specific GHG emission evaluations
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Your comprehensive R&D partner
for 2nd generation biofuels
Pretreatment
and hydrolysis Fermentation Product
recovery
Ethanol and other
alcohols
Lipids Diesel, jet fuel
BIOTECHNOLOGY
Thermal or
catalytic fast
Pyrolysis Product upgrading
Gasoline
Diesel, jet fuel
FAST PYROLYSIS
Gasification Gas cleaning
to syngas
Liquid fuel
synthesis
Methanol Gasoline
Diesel
Gasoline
DME
Hydrogen
SNG Methanation
PSA
GASIFICATION
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Combustion CFB
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bench scale pilot scale utility scale
phenomenon sub-models design & simulation
Combustor
Primary gas air, N2, O2, CO2, SO2 etc.
Secondary gas
Grid
Continuous fuel and additive feed
Batch fuel and additive feed
Filter
Cyclone
Flue gas
Primary gas heater
Electric
heaters
Cooling
BENCH SCALE COMBUSTOR BFB/CFB
Fuel and additive feed
Bottom ash
Flue gas recirculation
Riser Solids circulation sample
Gas tanks (air, N2, CO2, O2)
Loop seal material sample
Temperature, pressure and profile sampling along the combustor height
Primary cyclone
Secondary cyclone
Deposit probes
Gas cooler Bag house filter
Flue gas to stack
Secondary and tertiary airs
Primary air and grid
PILOT SCALE CFB COMBUSTOR
ŁAGISZA 460 MWe supercritical OTU CFB
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Primary airSecondary air
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Experimental and modeling work combined
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Typical R&D topics in fluidised bed combustion
Understanding in-furnace phenomena under
fully controlled conditions
Combustion profiles
Gas, solids, temperature
Heat transfer inside combustor
Emission formation
Ash behaviour characteristics
Aerosol sampling inside furnace
Formation and analysis of deposition
Combustion control studies
Worlds first successful oxyfuel-CFB test was
carried out in 2006 at 0.1 MW unit
For more detailed information on our
experimental capabilities click the following link
and select “Test Facilities”
Fuel and additive feed
Bottom ash
Flue gas recirculation
Riser Solids circulation sample
Gas tanks (air, N2, CO2, O2)
Loop seal material sample
Temperature, pressure and profile sampling along the combustor height
Primary cyclone
Secondary cyclone
Deposit probes
Gas cooler Bag house filter
Flue gas to stack
Secondary and tertiary airs
Primary air and grid
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Piloting facilities
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Fuel characterization tests in pilot scale
Combustion
Combustion profile (heat release), fuel
reactivity
Unburned carbon (UBC)
Emissions
Main components such as CO2, O2,
CO, H2O, SOx and NOx
Trace elements e.g. HCl, HF, N2O,
NH3, CxHy, Hg
Ash
Ash composition and split: bottom ash vs. fly ash
Agglomeration, fouling and
corrosion tendency
Limestone
Reactivity compared to
reference one
Estimate limestone dosage to reach
the emission limits
• optimal combustion conditions (temperature, air staging)
• furnace dimensioning
• type and location of heat transfer surfaces
• material selections
• emission control system
• ash removal systems and utilization
Data to design and optimize high
performance boiler with low emissions and high availability
in terms of
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Power plants are facing growing demands to reduce emissions and to fire fuels of lower quality. In process design, detailed modelling using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) can be utilized to meet these demands
VTT offers a wide range of expertise in modelling and numerical simulation of combustion and its emissions of fluidized beds and pulverized fuel furnaces including innovative combination of different modelling approaches with CFD
NOx, SO2, CO and UBC abatement analyses
Influence of new fuels and co-firing on combustion, heat fluxes and emissions
Prediction of fouling and conditions favoring corrosion and erosion
Numerical simulation tools for combustion
analysis
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12 Anthracite Bituminous coal Brown coal/lignite Pet coke/Coal waste Peat Oil shale Biomass
(wood, bark etc) Agro biomass
(straw, rapeseed etc) Waste
(SRF etc) Limestone
Worldwide references of the fuels tested at VTT
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Gasification
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Lahti Energia KYVO2
gasification based WtE plant (160 MWfuel)
(commissioning 2012)
Gasification based Waste-to-Energy
– another example of VTT R&D-technology
Lahti Energia KYVO2
gasification based WtE plant (160 MWfuel)
(commissioning 2012)
Laboratory characterisation
& preliminary development
in bench scale
Further development
and optimisation in
pilot scale
Corenso, plastic reject
gasifier (50 MWfuel)
(commissioning 2001)
Lahti Energia KYVO2
gasification based WtE
plant (160 MWfuel)
(commissioning 2012)
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R & D on Hot Gas
Filtration and
Catalytic Gas
Cleaning
IGCC development
SYNGAS R&D AT VTT • Concept development for biofuels
• Gasification process development
• Support to industrial demonstrations
• Improved process concepts
in 2G Biofuels project 2012->
INDUSTRIAL
PILOT • VARKAUS
• CHICAGO
NEW APPLICATIONS
• Fuel cells, 2nd gen. IGCC
• Hydrogen, synthetic methane,
Chemicals
• Hybrid Renewable Systems
• Material Recovery from Waste
BIOMASS/WASTE
GASIFICATION FOR POWER PIONONEERING DEMO’S: LAHTI,
CORENSO,VÄRNAMO
Gasification tests
In USA and Germany +
Supporting R&D
at VTT for Oulu
1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 1985 2025 2030
BIOREFINERIES AT PULP AND PAPER
MILLS AND AT LARGE CHP PLANTS • Bio-Diesel production100-200 ktons/plant
• NER300 financial support to first plants?
• Gasoline, SNG, H2 in next phase
BIOMASS AND WASTE GASIFICATION FROM R&D TO INDUSTRIAL SUCCESS
PEAT
AMMONIA
PLANT OULU/FINLAND
1980 5 p-years
1990 15 p-years
2000 20 p-years
2010 25 p-years
WASTE-TO-ENERGY PLANTS AND
CO-FIRING IN COAL BOILERS • Corenso 2001, Lahti II 2012, Vaasa 2013
• High electric efficiency, material recovery
• Replacement of coal by biomass-derived gas
as part of fuel conversion
activities of 60 p-years
(gasification, synthesis, pyrolysis, fuel cells)
BIOMASS-TO-POWER PLANTS • Small-scale CHP by gas engines 0.1-5 MW
• IGCC plants 30-150 MW
Bioneer Gasifier
for Small-scale
VTT
resources
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High-Efficiency Power from Biomass
• IGCC based on pressurised fluidised-bed gasification and hot filtration
•new interests due to increasing need for green power
• Gasification coupled to engines for small-scale plants 0.1-5 MWe
•Support to SME companies in “farm-scale” power
•New gasification reactor invention for small scale biomass CHP
•Patenting on-going
•TUTLI funding applied from Tekes
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New gasification and pyrolysis bench- and pilot-scale
test hall VTT will move it’s Gasification and Pyrolysis test equipment
from Otaniemi to an industrial area in Kivenlahti, Espoo
New pilot facilities will also be constructed
Start-up at new site in January 2015, testing is continued in
Otaniemi using present facilities until summer 2014
2G Biofuels R&D&Piloting poject 7.2 M€: 2012-14, 2nd phase planned for 2015-16
VTT RES-Infra
Investment
Funding for
equipment
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VTT Gasification - Summary
Leading global technology suppliers of biomass gasification systems are
located in Finland – synergy with fluidised-bed boiler technologies
VTT is supporting industrial development by Carrying out innovative R&D for new applications and solutions
Licensing it’s gasification and reforming IPR
Creating new fundamental know-how together with universities
Supporting industrial plants with special analytics and monitoring services
VTT gasification in brief 20 person years annually – ca. 4 M€/a
3 principal scientist + 4 PhD students and 6 researchers with good industrial
capabilities (total of 10 researchers)
Experienced technical and laboratory personnel (10 engineers & technicians)
Patents on fluidised-bed gasification and catalytic reforming (ca. 10 key patents)
Scientific publications especially on fuel reactivity and catalytic reforming
Excellent test facilities from laboratory to pilot scale:
(5 lab scale, 6 bench-scale and 2 pilot scale test facilities)
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Fast pyrolysis
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VTT thermochemical platform for biofuels
and chemicals – fast pyrolysis
Feedstock suitability evaluation
Techno-
economic
evaluations
Bench-scale research and process modeling
Fast pyrolysis process
• Thermal or catalytic fast pyrolysis
process development
• Bio-oil chemical analytics
• Final upgrading to higher value
products
Bio-oil, transportation fuels and chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass
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Approach
At VTT we have
• Unique 20 kg/h Process Development Unit suitable
both for thermal and catalytic fast pyrolysis process
development
• World class bio-oil chemistry know-how
• Cutting-edge tools for techno-economic
evaluations and process modeling (CFD,
ASPEN)
• Track record on industrial development and
demonstrations
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CFD modelling
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CFD Modelling team activities
CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and molecular modelling
A team of 15 competent researchers
Applied research
Investigation of practical application cases
Utilize simulation to understand process behaviour and as a design tool
Cooperation with companies and universities and with other teams of VTT
Model development and testing
Model physical and chemical subprocesses
Combine CFD and other computational methods:
Multiblock modelling, Cellular automata, Chemistry solver,…
Strong competence especially in
Combustion and emissions
Various multi phase flow processes
Molecular modelling of surface phenomena
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RESEARCH AND APPLICATION TOPICS Combustion and thermal conversion
CFD applied to combustion at VTT
since 1984
Combustion and reduction of
emissions:
Pulverised fuel combustion
(boilers and burners)
Grate fired combustion
BFB Bubbling fluidised beds
CFB Circulating fluidised beds
Recovery boilers and lime kilns
Gas flames
Gasification
Fast pyrolysis to produce bio oils
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RESEARCH AND APPLICATION TOPICS Industrial multi phase flow processes
Multiphase flows Fluidised beds
Trickle bed reactors
Flotation (mineral separation)
Rotating machinery Mixers, stirred reactors
Pumps
Molecular modelling Fouling on heat transfer surfaces
Multiscale CFD + Molecular modelling
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Techno-economical
assessments
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Techno-economical assessments
Example: ForPower concept
ForPower is an expert driven research scheme that covers:
• Biomass availability estimation
• Optimization of fuel procurement technology
• Economical plant feasibility analysis.
The aim is to enhance the business possibilities of renewable energy
production with biomass ranging from small to large scale heat and
power production.
• This is achieved by carefully studying the economic foundations of
biomass procurement and wood heat and power generation
ForPower feasibility study type projects have been successfully
executed e.g. in Poland, Czech Republic, France, Uruguay, Namibia,
Vietnam and Ukraine.
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Result examples of VTT’s research
Bialystok power plant, Bialystok, Poland
Research activities, conducted in 2005
The study evaluated:
Spatial availability of forest fuel
The potential and economy of modern
forest fuel harvesting in polish conditions
Economy of heat and power production
with forest fuels
Site location
Forest fuel transport distances
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Result examples of VTT’s research
ForPower concept in use
Bialystok power plant, Bialystok,
Poland
Sufficient forest fuel availability
Total accumulation 631 000 m3 of forest
fuels/year, demand 320 000m3/a, agrobiomass
also available
Roadside chipping method most economic supply chain for forest fuels
Forest fuels can be utilized in heat and power
production within reasonable cost levels: Bio 16,8
€/MWh, Coal 10,8€/MWh (2005 cost levels)
Average transport distance for plant’s fuel supply
is 127 km and mean production cost 11,2 €/MWh
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Breakdown of energy production costs with biomass and with coal
Transport distance to Bialystok, km
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Existing BNRs NR3, New OFA NR3-B, New OFA
NOx [ppm] (dry, 6 % O2)
h [m]
EXISTING BNRs
(old OFA)
• SRtot = 1.23
NOx emission:
• CFD 131 mg/MJ
• Meas. 125 mg/MJ
Coal: Polish, N (ds): 1.22 w-%
BURNER - A
(new OFA)
• SRtot = 1.23
NOx emission:
• CFD 102 mg/MJ
BURNER - B
(new OFA)
• SRtot = 1.23
NOx emission:
• CFD 106 mg/MJ
NO [ppm] (dry)
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