Conference Preview World Bioenergy 2012 Preview A highlight of some of the tours taking place May 28-31, 2012, in Sweden. pre-conference: may 28 ArlAndA – JönköPing Bioenergy in agriculture You will visit a combined heat and power plant, small-scale biodiesel production, biogas plant using municipal residues and more! ENA Energi AB, Enköping ENA Energi AB is a producer and distributor of district heating and electricity in the city of Enköping. The company has three boilers for heat production, originally using oil or propane gas as fuel. www.enae.se Brunnsholm Biodiesel, Brunnsholm Brunnsholms Säteri is a large farm south of Enköping and west of Stockholm. The Rinman family have invested in a large straw boiler and they produce RME – rapeseed methyl ester (biodiesel). Vafab Miljö AB, Västerås Växtkraft is a biogas plant in which bio-waste from households and restaurants is digested, together with ley crops from farms and sludge from grease separators, in large-scale kitchens. The biogas that is produced in the process can be utilized as environ-mentally compatible fuel for motor vehicles. www.vafabmiljo.se SToCkholM/SkAvSTA – JönköPing Solid biofuel and trade Planned visits include a combined heat and power (CHP) plant handling solid biomass and pellet production. Vattenfall, Idbäcksverket, Nyköping The plant consists of a CHP unit with a total capacity of 100 MW, and two heat boilers with a total capacity of 80 MW. ENA Energi AB is a producer and distributor of district heating and electricity in the city of Enköping and will be available for a tour on May 28, before the start of the conference. BooForssjö AB, Katrineholm The pellet plant began operation in 1995 and is integrated with the sawmill in Forss-jö, where heat is used for drying timber and sawdust for wood pellet production. The production capacity is about 50,000 tonnes per year. www.booforssjo.se kASTruP/CoPenhAgen 1 – JönköPing Solid biofuels Tours include: Cleantech, combined heat and power using wood fuels and a large pel-let factory at a saw mill. kASTruP/CoPenhAgen 2 – JönköPing Waste and biogas Planned tours include waste CHP , biogas production from household and industry/ agriculture waste. post-conference: June 1 JönköPing – ArlAndA Biofuels and bioliquids The first post-conference tour includes visits to a biogas and biofuel (biodiesel) produc-tion facility. Linköping – Swedish Biogas Svensk Biogas runs a plant in Linköping using waste products from food industry and restaurants. The biogas is upgraded to be used as vehicle fuel (to more than 97% Canadian BIOMASS 33
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