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Medium / High Pressure Steam Cycle Power Plants |
Overview
Biomass energy, or bioenergy, refers to all forms of renewable energy that are derived from plant materials produced by photosynthesis.
Biomass fuels can be derived from wood, agricultural crops and other organic residues. These fuels can be obtained from many sources, including rice mills, sawmills, woodworking shops, forest operations horticultural wastes, energy crop plantations, Palm Oil Mills and agricultural residues from farms.
The creation of power and heat from rice hull, coconut shells or wood residues, food residues, aquatic plants, animal wastes, and dedicated agricultural energy crops and tree farms is called biomass cogeneration. The technology is carbon neutral considering the short term recycling combined with carbon regeneration through replanting.
The use of medium / high pressure steam cycle power plants is best applied to projects in the 5MWe or higher range because the efficiency of the cycle is directly related to the pressure and level of superheat in the steam produced by boilers. Small capacity boilers are not readily able to supply steam at those optimum conditions.
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