14th day

22 April 2010

Went to Bahau and Serting to visit a biomass power plant.. took lots of pictures, and some videos.. it was a fun, yet tiring and smelly experience.:>

The day started off as usual, I came in at 8.30 am, went to my workspace and do my usual routine;online, checking mails, fb etc.. then Haniff came and handed me the safety helmet.. quite rusty compared to my CIDB's one ... i decided to use the MGTC's helmet given.. journey starts at around 10.10am, and basically took about 2 hours to reach Bahau..once we reach there, we decided to have our lunch first, .. after that, we decided to visit the power plant at Serting, and visit the one in Bahau on our way back.. so we travel to Serting, and reached "Loji Biogas & Stesen Janakuasa Felda PALM Industries Sdn. Bhd. Kilang Sawit Serting Hilir" at around 1.30pm. :>

The powerplant at Serting is basically fed by water, which has already been extract from the EFB. The water is then stored, and processed to produce gas/steam, however, the steam produced also contains Methane, which pollutes the environment, hence the gas is directed to a system that processed the methane and use it to generate electricity... the tour took about 1hour..:>

After that, we went to the EFB biomass powerplant in Bahau.. they call it Project "Gajah Putih".. dunno why... the plant is no longer operating, as there are problems with the condenser, and boiler plates.. basically this plant is supposed to feed EFB into a shredder, which will make the EFB into smaller and more manageable size. then, it will be sent to Pressing machine, which will squeeze the EFB to extract oil and reduce the moisture content.the product is then sent to Envirocycler machine to burn the processed EFB and produce heat for HRSG. HRSG is a heat exchanger that recovers heat from a hot gas stream. It produces steam that can be used to drive a steam turbine. After undergo the HRSG, the steam will be piped to the Steam Turbine which extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and converts it to useful mechanical works. It will then connected to 10 MW TNB grid.:>



<:Schematic Diagram of Biomass Power Generation Facility:>