Financing: CTAER
Duration: 2012-2014
Summary: The present work is the first phase of a project with the overall objective of creating the methodology and infrastructure necessary for the demonstration of hybrid renewable energy technologies using solar and biomass. In the present phase different configurations to produce heat and power from solar and biomass energy were analyzed. Various technologies based on solar energy of high concentration are analyzed together with various supporting energy systems based on biomass. For the latter two main options were considered: biomass boiler and gas boiler burning the gas produced in a biomass gasifiers. To characterize the gas from the biomass gasifier (the most uncertain technology to be developed within this project) a few tasks have been conducted (i) analysis of various biomasses was made in the laboratory; olive pruning was selected as the most promising biomass to be used in Andalucía (ii) tests for the characterization of olive pruning were conducted in a bench scale fluidized bed; (iii) development of a model for the simulation of a fluidized bed gasifier processing olive pruning.