Task 32 Presentation- Australia

Task 32 meeting Rome 14 May 2004

Dr Stephen Schuck Bioenergy Australia Manager Email: [email protected] Tel/Fax: (02) 9416 9246 www.bioenergyaustralia.org

Bioenergy Australia OECD Bioelectricity generating capacity 8000 9.0%

7000 8.0%

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Installed bioelectricity capacity (MW) 6.0% 5000 % of Total Installed Generating Capacity 5.0% 4000 4.0% Capacity (MW)Capacity 3000 3.0%

2000 2.0%

1000 1.0% Proportion of installed capacity fuelled by Biomass by fuelled capacity installed of Proportion

0 0.0% d n l a d k a s a o c n s y y e d n y d y e y d g d c ia a li n r d e e m c li a m d l n c i e a c r r n li n e tr g a a t r o i b iu ta a n n a k n a n u b la d s u a la a o d x u p n I la p r la rw e g la o la u n e u rt r a m n t K g e a lg la m ra e S u r o re n e b o p i w A o t e n a S n M p J e r r F Ir T e u c P e F S s Z e C d i e B e e tz N G I m P u D e K R th G i H e R w it d h e w x k A e n e c S u a N it e N L v U n z lo U C Country S Bioenergy Australia Mandatory Renewable Energy Target

• Additional 2% renewables by 2010 (9,500 GWh) • Held at 9,500 GWh/a 2010-2020 • Electricity retailers liable parties • Operates by creation and trading of RECs • 1 REC = 1 MWh • Wood waste and energy crops eligible web site www.orer.gov.au

Bioenergy Australia Breakdown of Renewable Energy Certificates

At 31/12/2002 www.rec-registry.com

Bagasse Co-generation Wind Wood Waste Bagasse Co-generation 12% 11% 4% Black Liquor Hydro Landfill Gas Black Liquor 4% Municipal Solid Waste Combustion Solar Water Heater (Deemed) Photovoltaic 22% Hydro S.G.U. - Solar (Deemed) S.G.U. - Solar (Deemed) 37% S.G.U. - Wind (Deemed) 0% Sew age Gas S.G.U. - Wind (Deemed) 0% Solar Water Heater (Deemed) Photovoltaic Landfill Gas Wind 0% 9% Wood Waste Sew age Gas Municipal Solid Waste 1% Combustion 0% Source: ORER Bioenergy Australia Forecasts of Mix of Fuel Sources for 2010

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80% Solar PV 70% Mun. waste water (sewage gas) Rural biomass 60% Cofiring 50% SWH Hydro 40% MSW/LFG 30% Wind

Percentage participation Bagasse 20%

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Bioenergy Australia Rocky Point Sugar Mill – 30 MW

• Stanwell Corp / Heck Group • Multi-fuelled Alstom Power VU-40 boiler 510oC / 70 Bar • Vibrating grate • Bagasse, Green Wastes, Timber Fuels

Bioenergy Australia Macadamia Nut Project – Gympie 1.5 MW pinhole grate unit

Source: Bioenergy Australia Biomass Co-firing Commercial Co-firing • Wallerawang PS, Mt Piper and Vales Point (Delta) – Waste Wood, Plantation wood residues, Green Waste • Liddell Power Station (Macquarrie Gen) • Swanbank (CS Energy) – Plantation wood residues, processed vegetable oil – Land fill gas Trials • Muja Power Station (Western Power) – Trials Plantation wood residues • (Stanwell Corp) – Trials on plantation residues

Bioenergy Australia Name of plant Owner Size Fuel Type Current Status Burners Fuel Feed

Vales Point Delta Electricity 2 x 660 MWe Less than 5% Co-firing Tangentially Via Coal Pulverised Fuel by weight of commercially Fired Pulverising units wood waste Mills via conveyor Wallerawang Delta Electricity 2 x 500 MWe Less than 5% Co-firing Tangentially Via Coal Pulverised Fuel by weight of commercially Fired Pulverising units wood waste Mills via conveyor Mt Piper Delta Electricity 2 x 660 MWe Less than 5% Co-firing Wall Fired Via Coal Pulverised Fuel by weight of commercially Pulverising units wood waste Mills via conveyor Liddell Macquarie 4 x 500 MWe Less than 5% Co-firing Tangentially Via Coal Generation Pulverised Fuel by weight of commercially Fired Pulverising units wood waste Mills via conveyor Plants Via Coal Conducting Pulverising Trials Mills via conveyor Swanbank B CS Energy 4 x 125 MWe Wood waste Trial only ? Via Coal Pulverised Fuel Pulverising units Mills via conveyor Muja Western Power Pulverised Fuel Wood waste Trial only ? Via Coal units Pulverising Mills via conveyor Tarong 2 x 350 MWe Wood waste Trial only ? Via Coal Pulverised Fuel Pulverising units Mills via conveyor Stanwell Stanwell 4 x 350 MWe Wood waste Trial only ? Via Coal Corporation Pulverised Fuel Pulverising units Mills via conveyor Bioenergy Australia Co-Firing Biomass with Coal

Wallerawang Power Station

Bioenergy Australia Materials Handling and Mill Performance Trials

Materials Handling: • Metering on to existing conveyors only way to ensure consistent blend ratio. • Good mixing observed on coal

conveyor after chute gate drops.

Bioenergy Australia Typical Fuel Specification Specification Biomass Fuel Categories Specific Energy (MJ/kg) (Oven 18 minimum Dry Basis) Total Moisture (%) (as received) 60 maximum Ash Content (%) (Oven dried 5 maximum basis) Trace Metal Concentration 350mg/kg Maximum of an (Applies to fuel sources from aggregate of Sb, As, Be, Cd, manufactured wood products or Cl, Cr (total), Cu, Co, F, Pb, by-products or construction Mn, Hg, Ni, Se, Sn and V. demolition wood wastes. Visible Foreign Matter None Sizing (in accordance with < 100mm and > 3mm AS1152 test sieve) Bioenergy Australia Fuel Size and Contamination

Bioenergy Australia CSIRO Biofuel database http://www.det.csiro.au/science/energyresources/biomass.htm

Bioenergy Australia Cofiring LFG with Coal

Swanbank Re-Organic Energy Plant (co-firing biogas with coal)

Gas extraction

Bioenergy Australia Coal-Biomass Cofiring

CRC for Coal in Sustainable Development

Key Researchers:

Prof Terry Wall and Dr B Moghtaderi (Newcastle University);

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