Biomass & Biogas Power Plant

We are providing services and know-how in developing energy produce, using biomass system, the CPO waste is combusted the furnace of boilers to produce steam. The steam is passed through the steam turbine to generate electricity and the exhaust steam is used for all the heating needs in the mill.

The technology used in the combustion of biomass for heat and power generation has remained stagnant over the years in this country. This is because palm oil mills are able to meet all their energy requirements using low-cost low- efficient steam boilers and steam turbines. Therefore, they see no reason to improve the technology. Most of the existing biomass combustion systems in Malaysia utilise low efficiency low-pressure boilers.

The average conversion efficiencies in process steam and electricity generation are 35% and 3% respectively, while the efficiency in co-generation is around 38%. Commercially proven technologies are available in the international market for the efficient production of power and heat from biomass resources.

Modern technologies that utilise efficient high-pressure boilers are capable of dual fuel burning, utilizing either liquid (e.g. diesel oil) or gas (e.g. natural gas) fuel as a supplementary energy source. Dual-fired boilers can be used in palm oil waste-fired boilers to facilitate the use of POME-derived biogas as supplementary fuel. On the down side, the latest equipment for biomass-based power generation and combined heat and power (CHP) are not manufactured locally and have to be imported. The capital costs incurred to modernise a mill can be quite high.