33rd day

19th May 2010,

Early in the morning, i was given a task to do summary slides on Austrian technologies requested by En Hishamudin.. took like a few hours to read the whole thing first.. at the end of the day, i finished the summary on 5 projects :
1)Electricity, heating & cooling from cogeneration
Cogeneration is based on the principle of capturing excess heat from electricity generation for use as process & usable heat..the combined transformation of biogenic energy-carriers into power, heating and cooling is called combined heat and power, CHP, cogeneration or trigeneration.

2)Biogas and Biomass
Biogas-fuelled engines improve biowaste management while providing an efficient and clean form of energy-conversion. The Thermal energy can be used in part for the plant itself, or supplied to existing or non-district heating grids. The remainder of biomass fermentation serves as valuable agricultural fertilizer. Most of biogas systems operate as combined system of manure and co-fermentation of organic waste & renewable resources.

3)Split wood, wood-chip and pellet furnaces
Modern heaters that burn split wood, wood-chips and pellet emit a comfortable heat indistinguishable from an oil or gas furnace. Security of wood supply is guaranteed by the high forest level in many European countries.

4)Biofuels
Biofuels are booming as a result of increasing cost of fossil energy carriers. It has excellent perspectives for the future in the automotive sector. Biomass is not only used as fuel, but in liquid form also for electricity generation.

5)Solar Heat
Range of products covers all applications in hot-water preparation, cooling and heating. Production and installation costs have been declining during last years due to latest manufacturing procedures. The trend towards compact and ready to plug-in units, as well as the considerable growth of the market.