The DRAIG Fuel Processing Plant is not required if an abundant and acceptable fuel is available. Fuel must be stored on site in a dry covered area or in hopper or silos, and conveyed by stainless steel covered conveyors over the security fence into the power station. Similarly, the ash residue may be transported by a stainless steel conveyor totally enclosed from the generation side to the processing plant. If biomass is delivered such as bamboo cane, it must be chipped, into briquettes 40 dia. X 40 and then dried and stored before use. Marula nuts for example could be sent directly to the DRAIG Burner. The test for biofuel is that it should flow nicely through the hopper system. Biomass arrives at the plant with 50% moisture and is dried to 10%, the steam is condensed and can be treated, bottled and sold.
As soon as an order is placed for a new power station the entire site will be security fenced off, the road is laid, the drainage system is laid and the concrete footings for each building is laid.
Foot paths and pavements are laid, the cable ductings, or transfer posts are inserted and process earths are laid.
Tarmac or chippings are laid in all non-concreted areas, then an asphalt surface is put on the road concrete base.
The street light and lightning poles are erected.
Leaving the power station equipment to arrive at site and be mounted directly into position.
All DRAIG equipment that has been manufactured, will be assembled, commissioned and tested. Then re commissioned, after being shipped around the World.
has been designed to bring many benefits to rural areas, including employment at the power station and ancilliary businesses.
Because the DRAIG Energy Centre can be operated on a wide range of fuel types, it is therefore suitable for countries that may not have any indiginous coal. Wood could be a Renewable energy source for electricity production. The ideal location for a DRAIG Energy Centre is right next door to a coal mine, in the middle of a forest or in the middle of an area growing the bamboo.
Efficient combustion relies heavily on controlling the excess air going into the combustion chamber. Too much and you have free oxygen that can combine with carbon, nitrogen or sulphur, making nasty gases. Getting the oxygen content right is the job of Draig's patented computer system. 98-99% combustion efficiency means LESS harmful gases. awith our new partners emission elimination solution we can offer NEAR ZERO emissions.
Research into the gas turbine is ongoing. Draig anticipate that it will operate like a jet engine in reverse. Hot gas will be compressed before the turbine and ambient temperature air is added. This ambient air should expand rapidly creating a huge pressure in front of the turbine. As the hot gas passes through the turbine it rotates and drives the rotation of the generator, which will produce the electricity.
As the DRAIG Energy Centre used a closed loop cooling system the Energy Centre will not need water to operate, then the power station can be sited in the most unlikely and harsh environments. So long as there is an available fuel source locally, the Energy Centre will produce electricity. Which means the DRAIG Energy Centre can be located at the end of a transmission line, where power is needed.
The DRAIG Energy centre has been designed to plug together in 50MWe modules. Therefore the sizing of the power station is easy as for 200MWe you need 4 modules. These are delivered to site and are simply plugged together. Everything is pre-tested before it leaves our factory, once installed it can produce electricity immediately.
DRAIG have been providing combustion equipment and burner solutions across the World since 1951. The basic principles have remained the same whilst the designs have been modernised to deal with 21st Century fuel source requirements. Modern solutions to modern problems.
Growing Bamboo around each power station can provide hundreds of new employment opportunities in each area.
