Babcock and Wilcox: http://www.volund.dk/Biomass_energy/References/Harboore
Since 1996 the Harboøre plant gasifier has been operated for more than 8,000 hours a year. The engines have operated for a total of more than 16,000 hours. During 2004 the plant and especially the water cleaning system will be further optimised, and a commercial structure is in the process of being created around the technology. The technology has also been licensed to the Japanese company JFE, which anticipates contracting a plant similar to the Harboøre plant in Japan early in 2005.
The Harboøre gasifier - from test to commercial implementation
After several hundred hours of successful operation at our experimental gasifier at Kyndby, Denmark, the 3.5 MW updraft woodchip gasifier built for the municipality of Harboøre (Jutland, Denmark), was commissioned in December 1993.
The gasifier, which supplies district heating, uses a gas-fired boiler. The Harboøre gasifier plant is supported by the Danish Energy Authority.
Update:
More than 120,000 commercial operating hours
Between 1996 and 2011 our Harboøre gasifier has performed more than 8,000 annual operating hours, which is a current total of more than 120,000 operating hours.After several hundred hours of successful operation at our experimental gasifier at Kyndby, Denmark, the 3.5 MW updraft woodchip gasifier built for the municipality of Harboøre (Jutland, Denmark), was commissioned in December 1993.
The gasifier, which supplies district heating, uses a gas-fired boiler. The Harboøre gasifier plant is supported by the Danish Energy Authority.
We have gained substantial, unique experience from the various challenges posed by the plant. A three-year optimization process was implemented, and from winter 1996 to 1997 the gasification process itself was considered commercial.