ENERGY PRODUCTS EVOLVING EPI’s fluidized bed boiler systems convert renewable biomass and other solid or liquid fuels into steam energy. With nearly 35 years of operating experience and more than 80 fluidized bed energy system instal- lations, Energy Products of Idaho (EPI) develops and implements fluidized bed gasification and combustion of biomass and waste fuels for the production of green power while reducing greenhouse gases. Early EPI systems used biomass waste to generate process steam and/or hot gas for direct- fired dryer applications. The company provides fluidized bed energy systems that range from 2 MWe (8 MW thermal) up to 50 MWe (200 MW thermal). Application of this state-of-the-art technology has now expanded to include independent power production facilities and utility power boiler conversions from antiquated stoker and grate technologies. EPI systems have logged more than five million hours of operating time using such diverse fuels as refuse-derived fuel, board plant waste, demolition waste, urban waste, waste paper, paper sludge, sewage sludge, coal, waste plastics, chicken litter, rice hulls, peat, lignite, cow manure, railroad ties, tires and agricultural waste products. www.energyproducts.com, epi2@energy- products.com FINK AND KÖB TURN WASTE WOOD INTO DOLLARS Fink is the authorized sales agent for KÖB, which manufactures the Low-Particle Firing Pyrot Rotary Combustion Chamber Boiler and the Pyrtec Moving Grate Com- bustion Boiler. These fully automatic chip and pellet boilers are available in sizes from 80 kW to 2500 kW (270,000 to 8.5 million BTU). The Pyrtec takes wood fuels ranging from dry pellets to moist forest wood chips, while the Pyrot uses dry woodchips, wood pellets or wood byproducts. The equipment meets commercial, institutional and/or industrial heating require- ments, and the company’s specialty is installing large heating systems. Fink is experienced in biomass-based systems for district heating grids, woodchip and pel- let systems for municipal buildings and local heating networks. The Pyrot is environmentally friendly, with low emissions. The Pyrtec offers outstanding controllability of output and fully automatic de-ashing and clean- ing. Unlike oil and gas, wood is CO2 -neutral and renewable. When used with KÖB modulating output controllers, the burners can achieve more than 90% efficiency. www.finkmachine.com, [email protected] EFFICIENT KMW ENERGY SYSTEMS KMW Energy Inc. specializes in the engineering and supply of thermal and com- bined thermal and power systems. Each KMW Energy system is custom designed and engineered to suit the requirements of each application, with thermal energy outputs ranging from 150 boiler hp to 4000 hp and power generation from 1 MW to more than 25 MW. Successful combustion/gasification tests have been made using KMW Energy test units installed at Ortech International in Mississauga, Ont., and CANMETEnergy Technology Centre, Ottawa, on such materials as refuse- derived fuel (RDF) from municipal waste, scrap tires, construction debris, waste paper, peat, chicken litter, corn stover, rice husks and mill sludge. The KMW Energy CanadianBIOMASS 23
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