Hi All,
This just in from biopact to the Biochar Yahoo group;
RESEARCHERS SAY THEY will optimise a system that produces heat and power and supplements fertilisers using a new intermediate pyrolyser fed by ash-rich biomass.
A research team led by Andreas Hornung of Aston University, UK, says that they will demonstrate that low-oil, high-ash biomass sourced from agriculture and forestry, including twigs and grass, can be used to generate electricity and produce a stable char suitable for carbon sequestration on farmland.
The fundamental part of the project is proving the intermediate pyrolyser where vapours pass directly to a gasifier for gasification. “We have tested the pyrolysis in a reactor and it works and we have had a gasifier running for seven years. The team will spend two years optimising the coupled system.”
The aim is to prove the entire integrated approach, and couple biomass driven processes to generate combined heat and power (CHP) from non-edible sources of biomass and also produce a char that can supplement fertiliser and sequester carbon more efficiently than CCS says Hornung.
News Detail - TCE Today
Apparently, the recently created European Bioenergy Research Institute (EBRI) , also headed by professor Hornung, is working on the same technology.
Check it out here:
Pioneering international research institute to launch at Aston University
Under the 'note to editors': "Collaboration with the Odenwald district in Germany to develop and establish the first highly integrated biomass based power plant with a negative CO2 impact through carbon sequestration."
Erich
