Overview
Suxé, now DRAIG International, dominated the Anthracite and coal burning market in the 1950s. Originally a Swedish Company, Suxé was bought in the 1970’s by the Smith family and moved to South Wales in the UK. Suxé continued to provide heating and hot water plant predominantly in South Wales to hospitals and schools, where Anthracite was available in large quantities. In the mid 1980’s, the government under Magaret Thatcher effectively closed down the UK coal industry. With Europe turning to renewable fuel sources, Suxé was left without a market and spent the next 2 decades redeveloping and redesigning the Suxé technology to enable the burning of a wide range of fuels, other than coal and anthracite, such as petroleum cokes, lignite, all biomass & biofuels. DRAIG will be setting country specific businesses for the manufacture and sale of DRAIG RPX2000 burners. Each local business will have its own local management team, culture and identity. DRAIG will share all of its technological development with these country specific businesses.
Converting old power stations
Retrofitting existing power stations
Many existing Power stations are several decades old no longer meet the clean air requirements. DRAIG's new Ultra-Low emissions burner which has been designed to seamlessly replace those older solutions. Now with the latest advances in combustion technology, and our partners revolutionary noxious gas emission elimination , we can extend the life of old power stations producing ZERO noxious emissions.
Several variations of design are available for the DRAIG Burner, most fall into the operational constructional standards in the 10bar pressure market or the 40bar pressure market, this allows higher pressurised steam systems to be directly connected and to benefit from the heat generated in the DRAIG Burner. Alternatively use the heat from the DRAIG Burner in a separate 10bar closed system, such as a dryer system or other application.
This market is huge with conversions of older non compliant power stations in the USA, UK, Far East, India and Europe. Every year new power stations are being planned to meet a growing demand.
Advantages
Firstly, flexibility, in that the input fuel maybe anthracite coal, bituminous coal, lignite, petroleum coke, any biofuel or treated biomass and Municipal solid waste.
Secondly, the new gas emissions removal solution provided by our partners allows us to offer Near ZERO emissions.
Thirdly, with coal fired power stations no longer a threat to the environment, the environmentalists arguments against the use of coal, will be silenced. The coal mining industry will be revitalised protecting thousands of jobs. The net cost to each country will be far less as older power stations, instead of being replaced, can be retrofitted with DRAIG technology to extend their life.
Finally, we have a business rental model that allows us to put in the technology at ZERO COST to the investor, payment can be made as a percentage of electricity sales.
DRAIG has it all
The individual burn rate is expected to be 18 to 20 tonnes of biomass per Burner per hour and an equivalalent of 9 to 10 tonnes of coal. Each burner is computer controlled, when no heat is required the units automatically switch to ‘kindling mode’, ready for full operation when required. Biomass such as pelletised wood waste does not need to be processed, but burnt as it is with an ideal 10% moisture content. DRAIG believe 7 to 9% moisture content runs the risk of spontaneous combustion in storage areas; 11 to 15% is acceptable but less efficient in combustion terms, 15 to 50% moisture content is not advisble.
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