Each DRAIG Energy Centre is a state of the art facility, laid out with drainage, a road system, pavements, street lights, lightning conductors. Landscaped with chipping areas and decorative bushes and green shrubbery.
These are fully designed to make the power station an attractive place to work. There will be a canteen with pleasant seating areas for tea breaks and other meal times. Ablution buildings to allow male and female facilities such as locker rooms, toilets and showers. Maintenance buildings allow for full operational electrical, mechanical and electronic electrical workshops and standby storage items, such as recommended stores, mild steel plates and copper wire and components. A fuel depot will be constructed for daylight shift opertion only which will turn biomass into biofuel in a complicated process. The drying process, yields large quantities of fresh water (12tonnes/hour), that is 12,000 litres per hour per 50MWe power module.The control room is a 'State-of-the-art' facility with large screen monitor displays (60inch) showing critical operations, video feeds of the combustion, chimney data and all possible operational information such as power developed and MWe exported, resulting in money earned.
The overall site should be clean and tidy and a pleasant place to work. The control system is computer software based and enables three scada large screen monitors and two smaller monitors, to display all available sub-section screens and video streams from many safety critical areas.
One such control room can process the entire power station of any size up to 600MWe.
Also remote access by DRAIG Engineers is possible for unusual support situations, otherwise regular inspection is authorised.
Chimney exhaust regulation and power generation rating and billing are all examples of data collection.
DRAIG operations take over the running of the plant from the commissioning team.
They train the local employees until they are certified to DRAIG standards.
DRAIG's Power Stations can work on almost any fuel! Solid fuels such as Coal or Anthracite, Biomass such as Wood Bamboo or Bagasse, Biofuels such as pelletised Wood or Bamboo even Waste Derived Fuel, all can be burnt with NEAR ZERO emissions.
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 nitrogen or sulphur, making nasty gases. Getting the oxygen content right is the job of Draig's patented computer system. 97% combustion efficiency means NO harmful gases. Additional technology from our partners Karbonyx, means we now produce 'ZERO' Emissions.
The DRAIG gas turbine in under development DRAIG anticipate that it will operate like a jet engine in reverse. Hot gas is compressed before the turbine and ambient temperature air is added. This will 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 produces the electricity.
DRAIG Energy Centres need little water to operate, it 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 in containers that are simply plugged together. Everything is pre-tested before it leaves our factory, we deliver a power station to site that 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.
