| Project Owner... |
Arbaflame
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| Project name |
Arbaflame Grasmo plant
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| Status |
operational
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| Startup |
2003
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| Type |
TRL 6-7 Demonstration
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| Technology |
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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 (6 t/h)
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| Technology Brief |
Arbaflame has been producing steam explosion pellets in Norway since 2003. The pellets are produced at the Grasmo plant in Norway. The plant has a capacity of 6 t/h. Biomass sawdust is pre-dried and then enters the steam explosion reactor in which it undergoes the steam explosion process.
Hammermilling after the steam explosion process is not required. After it leaves the steam explosion reactor it is post-dried and then pelletized (Knappskog). Arbaflame has most experience with biomass from local suppliers (spruce and pine).
The total accumulated production amounts 130 000 tonnes. The pellets are sold under the name of Arbacore. Arbaflame also licences its technology to external partners as Arbakit and is planning to build a full scale 200 000 tonnes per year plant. Several other projects in Europe, United States and the Pacific area are in different stages of development and amount to a total production capacity of 1 700 ktonne per year (Knappskog). Most of these projects are still in the early development stages. Arbaflame mentions that it can apply a co-funding business model as well as a licensing business model.
The Arbacore pellets have been tested in several large coal fired plants in Europe, and in total tested at 14 utilities (personal communications). The pellets have further been applied in a full conversion configuration in Ontario Power Generation‘s Thunder Bay Station in Ontario, Canada since 2017.
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Last Update: 2018-07-03 10:20:32