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| Posted Nov 4, 2005 PT |
Ansaldo and GB Engineering combine on small biomass-fired power plants
A joint venture company, SWS & GB Saline Water Specialists, will offer power plants of three to six MW capacities that can be built along a seacoast. If you find this article interesting, be sure to also read 'Breakthrough in "cool" fuel cells promises revolution in high density power production.'
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Original news summary: (http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=13952656)
- The joint venture company, SWS & GB Saline Water Specialists Pvt Ltd, intends to sell power plants of 3-6 MW capacities that can be put up along a seacoast and fired by biomass.
- "Coastal Tamil Nadu abounds in fast-growing trees like casuarinas and Juli Flora," notes MP Ramaswamy, Managing Director, Ansaldo Caldaie Boilers India, which represents Ansaldo in this country.
- Apart from producing electricity, the plant will also generate enough heat to evaporate seawater in a vacuum vessel, which can be condensed into drinking water.
- According to Ramaswamy, it is possible to produce water at three paise per litre using the company's plants.
- To compare, the water supplied in tankers costs six to seven paise per litre.
- Thermal power plants in coastal areas can then use the waste heat out of the boilers to convert water into steam, and thereby produce drinkable water.
- Recently, at a conference on power equipment in Tiruchi, Dr Hari N Sharan, co-Chairman, Decentralised Energy Systems India Pvt Ltd and a former Director of BHEL, spoke of the huge scope in using biomass-fired small power plants to raise rural incomes.
- Dr Sharan says it is possible to put up such plants at a cost of under Rs 50 lakh and produce power at around Rs 4 per unit.
- Such units will be viable only when a gas engine is developed, which can produce electricity using the gas produced by a biomass-fired gasifier unit.
- In the absence of such a gas engine, the combustible gas needs to be mixed with diesel and fired in a diesel engine, which makes it not-so-attractive economically, but also difficult to maintain.
- Still, there is a consensus evolving on the idea that biomass-based small, decentralised power plants are the way to go.
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