TY - GEN
T1 - PROGAS - Gasification and Pyrolysis R&D Programme 1997-1999
AU - Kurkela, Esa
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The publicly funded gasification and pyrolysis research
activities of VTT have been integrated into a three-year
programme to elevate the profile of Finnish gasification
and pyrolysis R&D and to efficiently maintain contacts
with foreign enterprises that utilise these technologies.
The programme is focused on applied technical research,
and on process and equipment development done in
co-operation with industries. The total volume of the
programme in 1997-99 will amount to FIM 35 million, the
main financiers being VTT, several EU Pro-grammes, the
Technology Development Centre (Tekes) and a number of
enter-prises. In addition to VTT's R&D projects, several
confidential industrial and demonstration projects are
also linked to the PROGAS programme.
The PROGAS programme aims at promoting development and
commercialisa-tion of energy production methods based on
gasification and pyrolysis technol-ogy as well as
creating new export products. The processes concerned
will be more efficient, environmentally sounder and, in
the long term, also more profit-able than the competing
conventional combustion technology. This aim will be
achieved through the following technical sub-tasks:
· Supporting on-going and planned demonstration projects
based on pressur-ised gasification through follow-up
studies, test runs and solving critical problems
· Improving the competitiveness of simplified IGCC plants
by developing gasification of coal and biomass mixtures,
hot gas cleaning and other critical parts of the process
· Supporting demonstration projects based on
atmospheric-pressure gasifica-tion, and solving critical
problems that are hampering the commercialisation of the
gasification systems for problematic agrobiomasses and
wastes
· Development and demonstration of power plant concepts
based on flash py-rolysis and diesel engines and
development of catalytic tar cleanup, presently the
bottleneck of the gasification diesel power plant
· Development of biomass-based flash pyrolysis oils to
boiler fuels
· Active development of new conversion methods for solid
fuels and initiation of new research and development
projects.
AB - The publicly funded gasification and pyrolysis research
activities of VTT have been integrated into a three-year
programme to elevate the profile of Finnish gasification
and pyrolysis R&D and to efficiently maintain contacts
with foreign enterprises that utilise these technologies.
The programme is focused on applied technical research,
and on process and equipment development done in
co-operation with industries. The total volume of the
programme in 1997-99 will amount to FIM 35 million, the
main financiers being VTT, several EU Pro-grammes, the
Technology Development Centre (Tekes) and a number of
enter-prises. In addition to VTT's R&D projects, several
confidential industrial and demonstration projects are
also linked to the PROGAS programme.
The PROGAS programme aims at promoting development and
commercialisa-tion of energy production methods based on
gasification and pyrolysis technol-ogy as well as
creating new export products. The processes concerned
will be more efficient, environmentally sounder and, in
the long term, also more profit-able than the competing
conventional combustion technology. This aim will be
achieved through the following technical sub-tasks:
· Supporting on-going and planned demonstration projects
based on pressur-ised gasification through follow-up
studies, test runs and solving critical problems
· Improving the competitiveness of simplified IGCC plants
by developing gasification of coal and biomass mixtures,
hot gas cleaning and other critical parts of the process
· Supporting demonstration projects based on
atmospheric-pressure gasifica-tion, and solving critical
problems that are hampering the commercialisation of the
gasification systems for problematic agrobiomasses and
wastes
· Development and demonstration of power plant concepts
based on flash py-rolysis and diesel engines and
development of catalytic tar cleanup, presently the
bottleneck of the gasification diesel power plant
· Development of biomass-based flash pyrolysis oils to
boiler fuels
· Active development of new conversion methods for solid
fuels and initiation of new research and development
projects.
KW - gasification
M3 - Conference article in proceedings
SN - 951-38-5267-9
T3 - VTT Symposium
SP - 57
EP - 62
BT - Power Production from Biomass III
PB - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
CY - Espoo
T2 - Power Production from Biomass III
Y2 - 14 September 1998 through 15 September 1998
ER -