Advanced Straw Fired Power Plant (cotton straw & forestry waste)

Dangshan Biomass Power Plant Project, Anhui Province, China

Introduction

 Dangshan Biomass power plant is the 1st project for the Everbright International Co., Ltd. (a HK
listed company), and is located in Dangshan Economic Development zone, Anhui province.
 The plant was owned by China Everbright International, and it is the first project delivered by
DPCT to the company It covers an area of 20 hectares with a total investment of about 581M
RMB.
 It was put into operation in 2011.
 The plant has been instrumental in promoting the local rural economy by making good use of
agricultural residues. It has helped the local government improve energy structure, protect the
environment, and has greatly increased local farmers’ income whilst making significant
contributions to a low carbon economy.

Plant performance

The 30 MWe plant at Dangshan is one of the most advanced biomass plants in China; it consumes
200,000 ton of agricultural & forestry residue and generates 2*108 kWh of clean electricity every year.
The plant consists of High Pressure High Temperature vibrating grate boiler and condensed steam
turbine, which enables very high overall plant efficiency (33%). In addition, the superior design
equipment ensures high reliability, and corrosion & fouling resistance.

 Fuel: cotton straw, forestry residues

 Fuel consumption: 25 tph
 Plant Efficiency: ＞33%
 Boiler Efficiency: ＞91%
 Annual Operation Hours: ＞8000h
 Main Steam Flow: 130t/h
 Main Steam Pressure: 92 bar
 Main Steam Temp: 540℃
 Parasitic Load: 10%
 The plant will consume 200,000 tons of agricultural and forestry residues each year;

Core components

 Fuel feeding system is one of DP CleanTech core technologies. The technology is based on
DPCT’s experience with European projects, DPCT was the first to introduce this most advanced
biomass fuel feeding system to China. For the Dangshan project, the spreader feeding system
was selected, as it is specialized for hard straw and tailored to handle 20% soft straw. The
automatic control system is easy to operate and highly stable and includes specific safety
 systems to protect from fuel firing-burning and jamming, together with a water supply to
extinguish fires.

 Grate system is another feature unique to DP CleanTech. We use the well-developed vibrating
water cooled grate system. Originally from Denmark, this system was designed for the
combustion of biomass fuels. The grate vibrates periodically during biomass combustion, thus
ensuring full burnout and controlling fuel combustion time in order to prevent slagging on the
grate segments.

 Boiler: High efficiency and reliability are the main features of DP CleanTech’s products. This
boiler is supported from the bottom, and the placement of the expansion centre and guiding
devices ensure the expansion in all directions, as well as supporting the boiler itself. In addition,
the boiler is designed to resist earthquakes.
 External Air Preheater (to reduce flue gas temperature and prevent low temperature corrosion):
Biomass fuels, are different from coal, in that they may have a higher content of chlorine and
alkali metal content and a lower sulfur content. An external air preheater can preheat the cold
air to ~180℃ by feed water. At the same time, the feed water temperature is reduced from
~210℃ to ~90℃ after air preheater. Then 90℃ feed water goes into the flue gas cooler and is
reheated to ~210℃, which also cools down the flue gas temperature to 130℃. At the same
time, low temperature corrosion has been reduced as cold end average temperature
【（130+90）/2=110℃】 is higher than dew temperature. This patent technology reduces flue
gas temperature to improve the efficiency of boiler.
 3#, 4# Superheater: As biomass combustion product exhibits a strong tendency for high
temperature corrosion and coking, a special type of structure (vertical tube panels structure,
coarse pitch) and high grade materials (ASME material SA-213TP347H, stainless steel, high
margin of pipe thickness) are used for high temperature 3#, 4# Superheaters. This efficiently
avoids high temperature oxidation on steam side ,and greatly reduces coking and high
temperature corrosion on the flue gas side.