| Project Owner... |
Topell Nederland
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| Project name |
Topell Nederland
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| Status |
idle
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| Startup |
2012
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| Country |
Netherlands
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| Street |
Roelofshoeveweg 29
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| City |
Duiven
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| ZIP |
6921 RH
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| State |
gelderland
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| Type |
TRL 6-7 Demonstration
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| Technology |
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| Technology additional information |
Torrefaction
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| Raw Material |
forest residues
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| Input 1 |
Wood chips
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| Output 1 |
solid fuels - pellets (60,000 t/y
)
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| Output additional information |
torrefied biomass
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| Partners |
Topell Energy
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| Technology Brief |
Topell Energy is a privately funded Dutch clean technology company that has developed a patent-protected process for the torrefaction of biomass. The company was established in 2008, with its headquarters in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands. Topell Energy has less than 10 employees, all of them dedicated to torrefaction.
Topell Energy applies a fluidized bed technology. The technology is proven at a commercial scale demonstration plant in Duiven, The Netherlands. This plant was built in 2010 and commissioned in 2011. In 2012 the first product was produced and tested in several power plants.
However, the plant was not operating at its design capacity. In the first half of 2013 Topell Energy implemented a redesign and in the second half of 2013 the plant was re-commissioned and ramped-up to its designed production capacity.
In a consortium together with utilities RWE, Vattenfall and GDF SUEZ, Topell Energy also completed a large scale co-firing test in the Amer 9 power plant of RWE Essent in the Netherlands. According to Topell, this test proved that Topell’s pellets can replace coal in pulverized coal power plants, without the need for infrastructural changes at the power plant.
Topell Energy has postponed the production at its demo plant in September 2014, due to the absence of a new co-firing support system for biomass in the Netherlands. The plant is currently mothballed.
Topell’s technology has been recognized as a breakthrough technology which enables large scale deployment of a biobased economy. The company has received awards from the Cleantech Group, the World Economic Forum, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the World Wildlife Fund and others.
The technology is now in the hands of Blackwood Technology, see http://www.blackwood-technology.com/
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Blackwood Technology B.V.
info@blackwood-technology.com
www.blackwood-technology.com
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Last Update: 2018-07-03 10:20:31