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Figure 2: Avedøre Power Plant in Copenhagen. The world's largest straw fired power plant ‐ 25 tonnes perhour capacity. Integrated with coal, pellet <strong>and</strong> gasfired units in multifuel plant.In addition to co‐firing, DONG <strong>Energy</strong> is in <strong>the</strong> process of converting three specific 350 MW coal‐fired powerstations from firing 100% coal to firing 100% wood pellets – primarily based on imported biomass.New conceptsThe many years spent working with biomass – mostly straw <strong>and</strong> household waste – have also resulted in anenormous investment into R&D of this field, <strong>and</strong> at <strong>the</strong> moment three new <strong>and</strong> highly interesting conceptsare approaching maturity.INBICON is a concept which aims to produce 2 G bio‐ethanol using straw <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r similar types of biomassas raw material. Basically in this concept, <strong>the</strong> straw is cooked – a process which opens up <strong>the</strong> structure <strong>and</strong>makes <strong>the</strong> cells accessible to enzymes. The enzymes disintegrate part of <strong>the</strong> biomass to <strong>for</strong>m sugars whichcan be converted to EtOH. The remainder of <strong>the</strong> biomass turns into a sugary substance, which containssalts <strong>and</strong> minerals from <strong>the</strong> biomass <strong>and</strong> can be used as animal feed <strong>and</strong> in <strong>the</strong> production of biogas, <strong>and</strong> asolid fuel, which can be co‐fired with coal in a power station. The philosophy is that <strong>the</strong> components of <strong>the</strong>straw should be used where most appropriate <strong>and</strong> where <strong>the</strong>y will generate <strong>the</strong> highest added value. Acondition <strong>for</strong> this concept is that <strong>the</strong> facility is co‐located at <strong>the</strong> power station premises thus allowing use of<strong>the</strong> “waste heat” from <strong>the</strong> power station as a resource in <strong>the</strong> INBICON facility. The concept is seen as animportant step towards introducing a bio refinery which is deemed to play a very important role in <strong>the</strong>future energy infrastructure. DONG <strong>Energy</strong> operates a major demo facility in Denmark (by Kalundborg) <strong>and</strong>has already sold <strong>the</strong> very first technological licences (Figure 3 <strong>and</strong> 4).Figure 3: INBICON in Kalundborg ‐ <strong>the</strong> world's largest 2G bioethanol plant. Produces bioethanol, molasse<strong>and</strong> lignin pellets from straw ‐ capacity to convert 100 tonnes straw per day.Risø International <strong>Energy</strong> Conference 2011 Proceedings Page 254

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