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The College has entered into agreement with Community
Power Corporation of Littleton Colorado to build
and install a 50 kWe downdraft gasifier utilizing
wood chips as the feedstock. Photos of the gasifier prior to shipping to the College and we've now added photos of the installed system at the College.
Partners in this $1,2000,000 research and development
project include Congressman John Olver of Massachusetts
and the US Department of Energy, Golden Field Office.
It is anticipated that this project will be installed
in August 2006 and will provide 50 - 75 kW of
electricity and approximately 420,000 Btu's of thermal
energy per hour. During the winter months the thermal
energy will be added to the College's existing biomass
hydronic heating system and in the summer the thermal
energy will power a twenty-ton adsorption chiller to
provide air conditioning.
A 75 kW gasifier would result
in displacing 682.65 tons of CO2 per year. This amount
of electricity would service 44 homes/year with an
assumed annual capacity factor of 73%.
View a link to the US Department
of Energy; Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy
fact sheet on the College's CHP project here: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/biomass/fy04/micromodular_biopower_system.pdf
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