Electricity Generation from Wood-Fired Power Plants; The Principal Technologies Reviewed

The ECLIPSE process simulation package is used to make techno-economic assessments of a range of power generation technologies which are currently available or have been proposed with wood as the fuel. These technologies comprise: (a) combustion with or without wood drying; (b) gasification of the wood followed by power generation using a gas turbine only; (c) Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle or IGCC; (d) Steam Injection Gas Turbine or STIG; (e) Intercooled Steam Injection Gas Turbine or ISTIG; (f) wood gasification followed by a spark ignition gas engine; (g) biomass-fed fuel cells.