F. Promitzer LandesEnergieVerein Steiermark / Austria [email protected]

Folie 1 Quality Management in local biomass district heating plants and grids

The Austrian “klima:aktiv”-Programme

qm heizwerke

Quality Management in local biomass district heating plants and grids

Biomass energy for heating and hot water supply in Belarus23. April 2008, Minsk

F. PromitzerLandesEnergieVerein Steiermark / [email protected]


Contents

Energy Agency “LandesEnergieVerein” The Austrian “klima:aktiv”-ProgramQuality assurance wood combustionqm heizwerke - the Austrian way


LandesEnergieVerein SteiermarkStyrian Energy Agency

Founded in 1981 - one of the oldest regional Energy Agencies (Staff: 18 FTE)

Vision: Empower the use of renewable energies and energy efficiency in the province of Styria

Styria:Area: ~ 14.000 km2

R&D: 3,5% / GDP25% of the end energy consumption is from RES

RES: 250 SMEs, 3000 jobs, 250 researchers


LEV - Activities

NetworkingNOEST - R&D-Cluster (providing

R&D funds and innovation transfer)

ECO&CO - SME-ClusterWIN

CENCEEU-Projects

Local energy agencies

ProjectsEnergy Efficiency

BiomassQuality Management RES

SolarWindWater

InformationInternet

PublicationsLibrary

TrainingEnergy ConsultantsFurther training for

expertsE-Learning

Styrian provincial government

Regional Energy PlanResidencial-building-fund

Environmental fund


www.lev.at


Forest enrichment - Division percentages in Austria

Source: Statistik Austria

agriculture

forests

alps

water surface areas

other (building land, gardens,

wine yards etc.)


Forests enrichment

In Austria a cubic meter of wood grows every second. That is yearly 31,000000 solid cubic meters.

At the moment only 20,000000 solid cubic meters are used yearly.


Map of Austrian biomass district heating plants and grids


Map of Styrian biomass district heating plants and grids


klima:aktiv

Active climate protection initiativeLaunched in 2004 by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water ManagementEmissions must be reduced from 78.9 million tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent (base year: 1990) to 68.7 million tonnes by the period of 2008-2012All klima:aktiv - programmes are managed by the Austrian Energy Agency


klima:aktiv goals

Lower carbon dioxide emissions through higher energy efficiencyIncreased use of renewable energy sources in all climate relevant areas of lifeMeeting the Kyoto targetsStimulating the climate protection marketsCreating a strong home marketNew jobs are created and secured in the climate relevant industriesStrengthening Austria’s position as a business location in the long term


klima:aktiv Strategy

Broad cooperation with the federal provinces and partners from the industry

23 programmes focus on four general areasrenewable energiesbuilding an energy efficiencymunicipalitiesmobility

and have been launched specifically in areas wherethe economic framework conditions are favourablemarket players are willing to cooperateadditional stimuli can yield results

“This enables us to help climate-friendly technologies, services and products to attain larger market shares in a faster and more cost-effective way.” BM Pröll


klima:aktiv ProgrammeKategorien: Energieeffizienz, Gebäude und Kommunen


klima:aktiv ProgrammeKategorien: Mobilität, Erneuerbare Energie

qm heizwerke


Quality assurance wood combustion

Originated in SwitzerlandAdvanced by experts from Germany, Switzerland and AustriaModel and basis for qm heizwerke in Austria

QM Holzheizwerke = QA Wood Combustion


Main technical deficiencies

The heat demand of the consumers is over estimatedOver estimated reserve capacity stored in the heating plantThe pipeline grid system is over dimensionedSize of the fuel silo is bigger than required


Main technical deficiencies (2)

Low utilisation ratio of the wood boilerFuel quality does not meet the quality requirements for the installed firingFaults in the hydraulic and in the control system lead to high operation costs


The objective of the tool „QA Wood Combustion“ is to ensure, that plants are built with

High technical and operational performanceHigh utilisation ratioLow emissionLow investment costsLow operation costs


Assurance of the Technical QualityQ-Guideline (Q-Leitfaden)

Quality Guidelines45 single requirements are defined in the quality guidelines


The requirements define the best available technology in the areas

Analysis of initial situationHeat productionHeat supplyDocumentationAcceptance procedureOptimisation of the plant operationFinal verification


“Q-Plan” - Quality Control Plan

The “Q-Plan” is a tool to stipulate the quality for each specific plant.After commissioning the functionality the recorded operation data must be verified by analysis.


Quality Manager

Responsible for the execution of QA wood combustionMaking sure that the quality is definedSupervising the project engineerMaking sure that deviations are recognised and corrected


Tools for the Project Engineer

Planning and construction of wood combustion plantsStandard solutions part 1Standard solutions part 2Standard tender for wood boilers


Standard Solutions

Description and diagram of the hydraulic solutionDescription and diagram of the applied control systemList of necessary data pointsDescription of data recording systems


Outcomes of QA Wood Combustion

Project engineers with little experience in planning are forced to acquire the knowledge of the state of the art.Systematic data recording shows the actual performance of the wood boiler and the control system.


qm heizwerke - the Austrian way

qm heizwerke general management

Quality managers QA wood combustion system


qm heizwerke General Manager LEVmain tasks

Developing a strategy how to reach the stated goalsSupplying the frame-work and the infra-structure of the coordination of qm heizwerke programmeSelecting, training and assisting of the quality managersIntegration of plant operators, project engineers and manufacturers of plant-componentsDeveloping of a database, which collects qm projects as well as technical an economic data


qm heizwerke General Manager LEVfurther activities

Monitoring and operation optimising of existing plants

A high-level equipment (data transmission by wireless network) was designed to record operation data of plants. This allows an efficient and cost-effective monitoring

Organisation of regular round tables for plant operators

Organisation of study-tours


The Quality Manager

During the process of planning, the quality manager recognizes and corrects any deviations of the

stipulated quality protocol.


Funding of local biomass district heating plants and grids

30% of the investment costs are funded by the government and the provincial governmentIn 2005 1.625 projects applications were received.1.387 projects with investment costs of € 330 millions received a funding of € 63 millions.


“qm heizwerke” and funding


qm Strategy

easy access to projekt data

Feedback to the subsidising authority

efficient work of the quality managers

controlled by the general manager (LEV)

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easy access comparing the operating data

from plants plans, charts and photos Absence of documents is

immediately apparent


ProjektdatenbankProgrammierung - Fakten

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In Betrieb seit März 2007

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Contacts

LandesEnergieVerein SteiermarkProgram Manager qm heizwerkeBurggasse 9/IIA 8010 GrazPhone: +43 (0)316 877 3389Fax: +43 (0)316 877 3391E-Mail: [email protected]: www.lev.at

www.qm-heizwerke.at

Weblinks

www.lev.atwww.qm-heizwerke.atwww.qmholzheizwerke.atwww.klimaaktiv.at

Documents

F. Promitzer LandesEnergieVerein Steiermark / Austria [email protected]