Beyond Net-Zero Carbon
We have now completed the build and factory testing of a 50kW hot air turbine and delivered it to Compag in Switzerland.
The system will be used with a Pyrolysis plant using Okozentrum’s innovative Floxburner technology to burn the Pyrolysis gas cleanly, the heat being transferred to the hot air turbine to produce 50kW of electricity.
The detailed design phase of our 50kWe MONO system designed to couple to the Okozentrum / Compag CPP-800 PyroChar plant is now complete. The system is now expected to be built by the end of October with site factory testing planned for the winter.
The build phase of the new 50kWe prototype high efficiency Hot Air Turbine, designed for concentrated solar applications is now nearing completion. It features two main advances:
EU Horizon 2020 programme
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 640905.
Bowman have already installed a large number of E-Turbocompound systems on a number of different engines.
We’ve just finished a package of work for Bowman Power, looking at the benefits of adding turbogenerators for a number of different gas and Diesel engines. The work involved both thermodynamic simulations using a Modelica engine model previously developed by Bluebox Energy configured with Bowman’s new KTG turbine maps and calibrated with practical testing in Australia on a Caterpillar 3516. Engines modelled include:
This work has enabled them to increase the number of engines they can offer, some projects of which have already started. We are now working with Bowman to develop this area of work, with Bluebox taking the lead for installing Turbocompound systems for clients that have only 5-20 engines in their fleet.
Bluebox Energy has been working with Dynamo Micropower since 2014 developing small gas turbine systems designed for the oil and gas industry. More recently, DMP selected Bluebox Energy to model a new Turbocore product and specify the required turbocharger hardware. The Turbocore is a turbocharger based heating system designed to run on multiple fuels with low emmissions.
We’re very pleased to have been selected for one of the 8 finalists in one of the two shell springboard regions.
Congratulations to the 3 winners for their bioplaatic, sea greenhouse and Lithium battery reforming technology.
After just 7 days of final installation and commissioning, one of our turbogenerator systems test beds is now operational at DSTG in Australia. This is a key step towards proving the technology to improve the efficiency of the Navy’s submarine engines, increasing their range.
During initial operations at Dudingen, a number of upgrade possibilities were discovered to improve the durability and performance of the system. These upgrades are now complete and our datasheet has now been revised to reflect the better performance:
The new performance was better than we hoped for and demonstrated 85kW of electricity equating to over 16% efficiency based on electricity out / calorific value of fuel consumed. Over the coming weeks we plan to gradually increase furnace temperatures to achieve 100kWe output.