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Cold end gas condenser design and manufacturing for combustion fumes heat recovery in waste-to-energy plants

Country of Origin: Spain
Reference Number: TRES20151112001
Publication Date: 12 November 2015

Summary

A Basque SME is looking for partners with knowledge and experience in the design and manufacturing of cold end gas condensers for energy plants. The company requires specifications in order to develop the final formulation of an advanced carbon steel tubes coating to be applied in fume heat recovery installations. A commercial agreement with technical assistance, a manufacturing agreement or a technical cooperation to carry out a pre-industrial demonstration is what the Basque SME is looking for

Description

A Basque small company that designs and produces tailor made ceramic & cermet formulations wants to produce a new specific product for combustion fumes heat recovery and condensation technologies. Therefore, it is looking for partners with track background in the designing and putting into operation of cold end gas condensers for energy plants.



Since internal ceramic coating in tubes is key to protect them against corrosion, the Basque SME now requires manufacturing and operation specifications in order to develop the final formulation of an advanced carbon steel tubes coating to be applied in fume heat recovery installations.



After technical studies carried out in laboratory, the Basque company thinks that they will be able to launch a product with the following major advantages if the right partner is found:

• A cheaper old End Flue Gas Condenser: using coated carbon steel will allow the building of industrial scale well over 20MWh of recovered heat with short return of Investment periods.

• Recovery of the sensible & latent heat (by condensation) of the fumes, increasing the thermal efficiency of the plant in around a 10%.

• Fumes are extremely clean and harmless to  the environment because acid rain is produced in the plant

• This acid “New Water” can be easily neutralized with soda and employed in other industrial applications with no need (or reduction) of the use of water from grid or nature.



Just to give an idea of the water recovery potential, the company estimates that in a Power Plant generating 50MW of electricity, the recovered “acid rain water” can be around 12 – 20 Tmh-1 due to the right application of internal coating in the tubes

Expertise sought

The company lacks experience and knowledge in the design, manufacturing and operation of condensers so they would like to set up a collaboration with a partner that will provide this knowledge and then define and carry out a validation procedure so they can develop a competitive coating formulation for this applications. Some issues that need to be addressed are:



• If in a condenser all the heat in the form of hot water (around 100 ºC - 212ºF) can be used in other heating needs at the plant (biomass dryers, etc.) or used for District Heating & Cooling.

• If part  of  the  fumes  (basically  N2 +  CO2 +  some  water)  can  be  used  to  warm  and  feed greenhouses

• If these  clean & dry exhaust fumes are easier  to  capture  its  CO2 than existing  alternatives

Stage Of Development

Available for demonstration

Requested partner

The partner sought has to be a company that has experience and knowledge in the design, manufacturing and operation of condensers. Thus, the partner would be able to set up a collaboration with the Basque SME in order to provide this knowledge and then define and carry out a validation procedure a competitive coating formulation for this applications can be developed.