DRAIG's Credentials

DRAIG International is a company who have succeeded and continued the work of Suxé International. Suxé were providing heat and power solutions from 1951 to 2018.
Until the global decline in the use of bituminous fuels in the 1980's, Suxé were providing solid fuel burning technology that burnt all anthracites, coals and lignites, including Petroleum Cokes.
Over the decades since the collapse of the global coal industry, Suxe developed their advanced burning technology to encompass a greater variety of solid fuels, to include; Anthracites Coal, Lignite, Petroleum Coke, all Woody matter as dried Bio-mass or as a pelletised or briquetted bio-fuel, seasonal crop residues such as bagasse, coconut shells and husks and nut kernels.
All of the designs and IP have been passed on to DRAIG International. Using advanced technology and a modular approach, DRAIG is capable of delivering new ULTRA-LOW emissions power plants or, upgrading existing power plants to the same ULTRA_LOW emissions standards. Draig will utilise new technology that eliminates all noxious emissions from fossil or biomass fuels - this results in Near ZERO noxious gas emissions, even from coal.
DRAIGS’s advanced combustion technology offers unrivalled consistent combustion efficiencies of up to 98-99%. DRAIG’s technology complies with all gas and particulate emission regulations world-wide. However with a Carbon Capture partner such as Karbonyx, in the near future we will be able to offer 'ZERO' Noxious emissions.

ZERO EMISSIONS

What does this mean? The noxious and environmentally damaging gases from power plants, especially coal fired plants, have long been pilloried by the environmental lobby. 'ZERO' emissions means that nothing damaging to the environment goes up the chimney of a power station. Literally, ZERO, The total elimination of all noxious gases and particulate matter. This has long been the 'Holy Grail' of combustion companies. DRAIG will soon offer this to all of our clients. Find out how we will be able to offer Coal and Biomass Burning Power Stations a 'ZERO' harmful emissions solution. To find out more about achieving near Zero harmful emissions from your existing power plant, click on the button below.

ZERO EMISSIONS

Modular Design

The secret to the DRAIG Energy Centre design is the modular concept based around a 50MWe power output. About Retrofitting


The modular approach provides numerous efficiencies that support our global reach:
  • Scalability of power plant with a minimum of disruption and effort.
  • Efficiencies of cost from a supply chain and manufacturing standpoint.
  • Reduced lead time both from a supply chain and production perspective.


  • Our power plants can be implemented from as small as 50MWe up to an infinite capacity.

    What DRAIG
    do ?

    We can build new modular power plants, but the major part of our business is retrofitting existing 'Dirty' power stations to make them clean.
    DRAIG offers the road map to continuous power generation from ANY SOLID FUELS including any fossil fuels and any biomass.
    DRAIG will operate power stations that we build on behalf of our customers, running them as an investment centre for all parties concerned, for an agreed period. DRAIG will centrally monitor the performance of all of its equipment at all times to ensure that the customer is operating at maximum efficiency.
    DRAIG Energy Centres are modular, we can build the same thing every time, which brings down the cost of manufacture and the time it takes to manufacture it. In the future we anticipate we will be able to roll out a power station in less than 2 years which means you are generating profit sooner and your payback period is much shorter.
    Although DRAIG Energy Centres perform a complex task, they are fully automatic and require few skills to operate them.

    DRAIG's Portfolio

    DRAIG build Power Stations called Energy Centres

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    UK Power Station due to fire up in 2025

    A recycled Wood fired Power Station producing 17MWth and 6MWe in Lincoln UK set to be a huge success.

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    LEARN MORE ABOUT DRAIG CONVERSIONS OF OLD NON-COMPLIANT COAL FIRED UTILITY BOILERS

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    PROCESS YOUR CITY WASTE WITH DRAIG'S ADVANCED THERMAL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION

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    DRAIG'S Advanced Thermal Technologies

    Major Community Benefits with a small 50MWe Community Power Station

    Firstly growing bamboo a "Green" energy solution creates many jobs in it's production and provides an income source in poorer rural areas.

    A series of symbiotic businesses placed near the community based power station dramatically improve the overall profitability and shorten the payback period. For example a Fish Farm, Hydroponics agriculture and animal feedlot. The excess water from the bamboo drying plant can be used to open a commercial fish farm and a hydroponics agriculture centre. The nutrient rich water water from the fish farm with the ash residue from burning bamboo mixed with manure from the feedlot will make a very high grade fertiliser. Excess fertiliser can be sold to the local farmers. Hydrated with the nutrient rich fish farm water will supply the hydroponics centre with all it needs, no need to buy expensive fertiliser.

    By circulating the Fish farm water to the hydroponics centre the water is cleaned of all the nutrients which are toxic to the fish, but ideal for the plants as nutrients. Clean water is sent back to the fish farm, keeping the fish healty. Waste material from the vegetables when harvested can be fed to the animals in the feedlot. The overall benefits include the sales of electricity, fish, vegetables, excess biofuel and fertiliser. Making the community power station hugely profitable and a provider of many job opportunities and a source meat and vegetables. All of these will massively benefit the local community.

    Advanced Thermal Technologies

    Pyrolysis and gasification – how it works
    Like incineration, pyrolysis, gasification and plasma technologies are thermal processes that use high temperatures to break down waste. The main difference is that they use less oxygen than traditional mass-burn incineration. However, it still has to meet the mandatory emissions limits. These technologies are sometimes are known as Advanced Thermal Technologies or Alternative Conversion Technologies. They typically rely on carbon-based waste such as paper, petroleum-based wastes like plastics, and organic materials such as food scraps. The waste is broken down to create gas, solid and liquid residues. The gases can then be combusted in a secondary process. The pyrolysis process thermally degrades waste in the absence of air (and oxygen). Gasification is a process in which materials are exposed to some oxygen, but not enough to allow combustion to occur. Temperatures are usually above 750 C. In some systems the pyrolysis phase is followed by a second gasification stage, in order that more of the energy carrying gases are liberated from the waste. The main product of gasification and pyrolysis is syngas, which is composed mainly of carbon monoxide and hydrogen (85 per cent), with smaller quantities of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, methane and various other hydrocarbon gases. Syngas has a calorific value, so it can returned to the Draig burner to be used as a fuel to generate heat for the gasification process or as a basic chemical feedstock in the petrochemical and refining industries. The calorific value of this syngas will depend upon the composition of the input waste to the gasifier.

    Gasification

    The feedstock may be in the form of a refuse derived fuel, produced by a Mechanical Biological Treatment plant or an autoclave. Alternatively, the plant may take mixed waste and process it first through some sort of materials recycling facility, to remove some recyclables and materials that have no calorific value (e.g.particulates or grit) The Draig burner sends a clean flame at between approx 750 C and 900 C) into a combustion chamber containing a gasifier unit. The waste fuel is passed through the gasifier, heating the waste in a low-oxygen atmosphere which produces a gas, oils and char (ash). Then the gas is passed through a Scrubber to remove some of the particulates and the Karbonyx system (Cleaning the gas , hydrocarbons and soluble matter. The scrubbed gas is then collected and may be used in another process or could be fed back into the Draig burner to be combusted with oxygen. The DRAIG Burner produces a clean flame to heat up the gasifier the excess heat can be used to turn a Turbine to generate electricity and, in some cases, heat through combined heat and power – (CHP).

    Draig's Alternatives to Pyrolysis

    DRAIG's unique combustion technology employs very high temperature combustion and complete control of the input oxygen to guarantee almost perfect combustion conditions. 100% perfect combustion requires the excess oxygen to be an close to zero as possible, thereby denying the opportunity for this excess oxygen to combine with Carbon, Nitrogen or Sulphur to create CO CO2, NOX or SO2. High temperature combustion allows Draig to burn this waste derived fuel in pelletised form directly or mixed with a secondary fuel (such as coal). No syngas would be collected using this method

    Standards & Delivery

    All Draig products will be constructed to the most stringent European standards, Draig completely comply with BS EN 1090 and IS 9002 standards. Delivery of any In the future Draig plant is anticipated to be generally available in under 2 years from order placement.

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    The Draig Energy Centre

    The most flexible, innovative and inexpensive way to generate electricity Anywhere in the world!!!

    2024

    DRAIG produce ULTRA-LOW emissions, but soon together with Karbonyx we will be able to offer 'NEAR ZERO' emissions, even burning Coal

    FACTS
    • Conventional
      Coal Fired Power Station

      Not complying with the Clean Air Regulations

    • Draig
      Coal Fired Power Station - Clean Chimney!!

      DRAIG Technolgy offers ULTRA-LOW noxious emissions.

  • What Draig can offer

    • Cheapest "Green" Electricity Solution

      Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants in the world and due to the speed with which bamboo grows and the low production costs. Bamboo can provide the cheapest electricity generated from a fuel source anywhere in the World! This guarantees the maximum profitability for the Power Station.
      A Renewable Energy Solution with Ultra-Low emissions.

    • Convert older non-compliant coal power stations

      With DRAIG's Ultra Low emission burners and Karbonyx's Carbon capture system,, we offer our clients a 'NEAR ZERO' noxious emissions solution. Older non-complaint power stations can be retrofitted with our unique technolgy. Even better, we can offer this service at no capital outlay by the clients, DRAIG will own the burners and lease them to the client for a small percentage of electricity sales.

    • Low Staffing Needed

      DRAIG's Energy Centre is very inexpensive to operate compared with a conventional Power Station, as we need very few staff to manage the system. We would need very few and mostly unskilled staff to operate the Energy Centre.

    • Simple Management

      The DRAIG Energy Centre is completely automatic. The dedicated Computer Control system manages everything, so it would need very little management and keeps the day to day running costs to a minimum, thereby maximising the profiability.

    • No Pollution!

      Draig's very high temperature combustion process, combined with a gas removal system will guarantee that there are almost no nasty gases, Near Zero!, and absolutely no smoke during normal high temperature operation.

    • No Steam - Future Option

      Siemens have developed a gas turbine and Draig are working on developing their own revolutionary gas Turbine technology; With a gas turbine we will not necessarily need any type of boiler in the future to produce dangerous high temperature steam to drive an expensive steam turbine.

    Clean combustion with almost 'ZERO' harmful emissions
    On almost any fuel

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    • DRAIG

      DRAIG International was formed to continue the work of the late Trevor Smith, who passed away on 4th Aug 2018. Trevor Smith was the owner of Suxé International. The team at Suxé International had come up with designs and a concept for modern, efficient, ULTRA-LOW emission, solid and bio-fuel power-plants. A new team was formed consisting of former design team members from Suxé International, and new designers from the wider business community, and together they formed DRAIG International, established in October 2024. Draig International has been formed to follow the goals laid out by the former company and the concepts, using new, improved patented designs for a better delivery model for its customers. DRAIG International aims to put 100% of its profits into: - Securing the security and growth platform of the company and its subsidiaries - The promotion and preservation of all things Engineering - Making the world a better place via support for charities around the world, particularly to help the disadvantaged.

      Fuel Varieties

    Pricing Guidelines Solid fuel/Biofuel

    With 4 Possible Enterprise Businesses
    Water Bottling Plant, Fertiliser Production Unit, Glass Building Block Plant, Commercial Fish Farm.

    50MWe

    3m £ per MWe

    (Euro POA - USD POA)

    (Ex Works)

    Online within 24 months

    MODULAR

    MULTIFUEL

    INCLUDES FUEL HANDLING & PROCESSING

    KARBONYX GAS TREATMENT

    AUTOMATIC

    FAST PAYBACK

    50MWe INFO
    200MWe

    2.95m £ per MWe

    (Euro POA - USD POA)

    (Ex Works)

    Online within 24 months

    MODULAR

    MULTIFUEL

    INCLUDES FUEL HANDLING & PROCESSING

    KARBONYX GAS TREATMENT

    AUTOMATIC

    FAST PAYBACK

    200MWe INFO
    400MWe

    2.9m £ per MWe

    (Euro POA - USD POA)

    (Ex Works)

    Online within 24 months

    MODULAR

    MULTIFUEL

    INCLUDES FUEL HANDLING & PROCESSING

    KARBONYX GAS TREATMENT

    AUTOMATIC

    FAST PAYBACK

    400MWe INFO