Renewable Power Technologies Umwelttechnik GmbH •  Small Austrian Company •  Engineering and Power Plant Construction •  Reached a Breakthrough in Biomass Gasification •  Built the Güssing Biomass CHP Plant in 2001 • Active in R&D in the Field of Biomass Gasification and Syngas Applications

Company Profile

Gasification Concept

Steam Air

Biomass

Gasification Combustion

Producer Gas Flue gas

Charcoal

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Gas Composition

CHP Plant Güssing

CHP-Plant Güssing

•  Start of Construction September 2000 •  Start up November 2001

•  Fuel Wood Chips •  Fuel Power 8 MW •  Electrical Power 2 MW •  Thermal Power 4,5 MW •  Electrical Efficiency 25 % •  Total Efficiency 80 %

•  Investment 9 Mill. EURO •  Optimisation 1 Mill. EURO

Gasifier Engine

ORC

Dryer

Single Cycle ηel = 27 %; ηges = 84 %;

Wood=15,7 MW w = 20 %

el = 4,2 MW

h = 9,0 MW

Combined Cycle ηel = 32 %; ηges = 83 %;

ηel = 35 %; ηges = 78 %; Integrated Dryer

Wood=14,3 MW w = 47 %

el = 5,0 MW

el = 0,8 MW

h = 8,1 MW

h = 6,1 MW

ηel = 27 %; ηges = 84 %;

ηel = 32 %; ηges = 83 %;

ηel = 35 %; ηges = 78 %;

Optimization of the CHP Process

HGA Senden

HGA Senden

CHP-Plant Senden

•  Start of Construction Dezember 2009 •  Start up November 2011

•  Fuel Wood Chips •  Fuel Power 14,3 MW •  Electrical Power 5 MW •  Thermal Power 6.2 MW •  Electrical Efficiency 35 % •  Total Efficiency 78 %

•  Investment 33 Mill. EURO

Biomass Gasification

Producer Gas (gas engine, gas turbine,

fuel cell)

Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG)

FT-Fuels (FT-Diesel)

Methanol

Hydrogen

others

Biomass

The basic concept – “Green Chemistry”

Test with Brick Oven Burner

Bio-SNG: 1 MW Demonstration Plant

Projekt GoBiGas 20 MW

GoBiGas Gasifier

GoBiGas Webcam 2013-11-05

SGC XTLH1 Pilotanlage

Stack

GasRecycle

Ash

Fluegas Cooler

Gas Cooler Gas Filter CO-Shift

Fluegas Filter

Fluegas Van

Compressor

CO2Separation (PSA) Cooling and

Drying Hydrogen

Biomass

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Air Steam

Reformer

Bio H2-4 Industries Process Flow Diagram

Bio H2-4 Industries Demonstration Plant

Process Data Input Output

Biomass kg/h 18 760 Hydrogen Nm³/h 10 040

Biomass Water Content wt% 40 Hydrogen

Chem. Energy MW 30

Biomasse Heating Value

MJ/kg 9.59 Heat MW 9

Biomasse Chem. Energy MW 50 CO2 Nm³/h 5 923

Office Güssing: Europastraße 1, A-7540 Güssing Office Vienna: Nordbahnstr.36/3/2.5, A-1020 Wien tel.: +43 1 2161895 fax: +43 1 2161895 15 email: office@repotec.at web: http://www.repotec.at

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