How Do We Get Energy from Potato Peels?
The idea of using biomass to produce energy is hardly new. Throughout the ages, people have collected dry wood to light a camp fire or put firewood into a fireplace.
But the use of biomass for effective generation of heat, steam and electric power has undergone a revolution in the meantime. Modern methods of energy production using solid biomass have become one of the most effective technologies available to us.
There are hundreds of types of combustible biomass. Far more interesting from our perspective than pellets or wood chippings are solid biogenic waste materials such as sawdust, wood scrap, bark, green waste, recycling wood, grain husks, nutshells, pomace, marc (e.g. from apples, wine, beer, etc), seeds or peels which are the byproduct of other production processes. Our approach involves the combustion of wet as well as dry waste-based fuels in such a manner that the energy production process still meets emission requirements. This is our distinctive strength. We call it the Lambion Waste Utilization Technology.
Combustion Technology 100 Different Biofuels
The mixture of biofuels of varying quality is a significant problem for many plant operators and builders. But not for us with our special combustion technologies.
Our approach thus provides a highly ecological alternative to ordinary biomass power plants. We do not make use of valuable wood materials that could be used for other industrial purposes. Instead, Lambion Waste Utilization Technology provides a way to obtain energy from regionally generated biomass waste and residues. This promotes value creation and economic growth on a regional basis while reducing dependence on foreign energy imports.
Lambion: Specialists for solid biofuels
In our understanding, biogenic waste and residues are materials that are generated in other production processes and cannot be used for other useful purposes, for example as a food source for humans or animals or as lumber. The distinctive advantage of our technology is that biomass materials with very different characteristics - dry or wet, coarse or fine - can be combusted simultaneously and converted into useful energy.
These types of biogenic waste and residue materials are typically inexpensive because they have no other use. Indeed, often their disposal represents a cost factor in itself. Today, Lambion power plants turn nearly one hundred different types of biogenic residue - whether industrial process waste materials, wood scrap or municipal green waste - into valuable energy.
Solid Biomass, Liquid Biomass and Biogas
How is biomass converted into electric power, steam or heat? Before biomass power plants can produce electricity, the raw biomass material must first be harvested, processed or refined. Only then can it be transported to the biomass plant.
The biomass raw material may be in a liquid form (e.g. plant oils from grain or potatoes), gaseous form as so-called biogas (e.g. from the fermentation of liquid or solid manure, sludge, maize) or in solid form (e.g. seeds, peels, pomace or chippings). There are different processes and plant types to obtain an optimal energy yield from each of these types of biomass. The chemical and physical characteristics of the different biomass types (e.g. heat value, water content, density, chlorine or ash content) are as different as the appearance of the various materials.
