{"id":3992,"date":"2016-06-03T19:41:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T23:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/airex-energy.com\/18-start-up-for-airex-torrefaction-plant\/"},"modified":"2023-02-02T21:11:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T02:11:14","slug":"18-start-up-for-airex-torrefaction-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airex-energy.com\/fr\/18-start-up-for-airex-torrefaction-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Start-up for Airex torrefaction plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"introtext\">\n<p>It\u2019s crunch time for Canadian torrefaction technology developers, Airex Energy, as it begins a phased start-up of its commercial demonstration plant in B\u00e9cancour, Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fulltext\">\n<p>\u00a0It has taken some time to get to this \u201cmoment of truth\u201d point. Airex Energy, a division of engineering company Airex Industries Inc., have a demonstration plant in operation since 2011 at its headquarters in Laval, outside Montreal (see Bioenergy International 2\/2013). In February 2013 the company announced that it had been awarded CA$2.7 million in public financial support through Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) for the construction of a 2 tonne-per-hour biomass torrefaction demonstration plant, which was to be completed by the end of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The original plan was to build the plant in Laval at our main location but we ran into planning and permitting issues, explained Sylvain Bertrand, CEO, Airex Energy. Instead an opportunity arose to relocate the project to an industrial park in B\u00e9cancour, an industrial town about 160 km northwest of Montreal on the banks of the St-Lawrence. More specifically to Laprade Industrial Park, a repurposed heavy water plant complex that was built but never operated. \u2013 In retrospect this site turned out more suitable. We\u2019re close to our feedstock sources in an area with abundant forest resources and forest industries and we\u2019re in very close proximity to the St-Lawrence Seaway, said Bertrand.<\/p>\n<h3>CarbonFX<\/h3>\n<p>Work began on the site in April 2015 with leasehold adaptations and site preparation and since the end of 2015 the plant has been undergoing phased start-ups and testing of equipment. The plant has been designed to commercially demonstrate Airex\u2019s proprietary \u201cCarbonFX\u201d cyclonic bed torrefaction technology. The biomass input used is wood of a pre-determined particle size though, according to Bertrand almost any organic material can be used, and passes an integrated two step drying system. Designed to run as a continuous process, the torrefaction process is a direct heating technology with gasloop linked to the burner and hot gas to the bed. The torrefaction itself takes place in a cyclonic bed reactor with a residence time of a few seconds and temperatures between 290 \u2013 365oC. The torrefied material is cooled and augured out from the bottom of the reactor to then depending on the product can be pelletised.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The CarbonFX reactor has a capacity of 2 tonnes per hour whereas the pellet press has double that. This means the annual capacity of the plant varies, from 15 000 tonnes if only biocoal pellets are produced to 30 000 tonnes for white pellets, explained Bertrand.<\/p>\n<div class=\"uk-grid\">\n<div class=\"uk-width-medium-2-3\">\n<h3>Flexible production<\/h3>\n<p>Another critical purpose of the commercial demonstration plant is to showcase product flexibility by producing conventional \u201cwhite\u201d wood pellets, biocoal pellets, biochar and biocoke.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 This flexibility is key as it reduces investment risk considerably in the chicken and egg situation for torrefied products and technologies. Essentially the investment concept is a white pellet plant with<br \/>\ntorrefaction capabilities meaning an investor can develop and grow incrementally into biochar, biocoal or biocoke markets with the same plant, explained Bertrand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"uk-width-medium-1-3\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airex-energy.com\/images\/blog\/17-bioenergy_international\/sbertrand.jpg\" alt=\"sbertrand\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #047832;\">We\u2019re excited about our plant and have 2016 to prove ourselves, said Sylvain Bertrand, CEO, Airex Energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source : Alan Sherrard, Bionergy International.\u00a0 \u00abStart-up for Airex torrefaction plant\u00bb,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.slidehtml5.com\/rqdz\/ssie\/#p=22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Svebio, Bioenergy International 2-2016 (85), Released April 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s crunch time for Canadian torrefaction technology developers, Airex Energy, as it begins a phased start-up of its commercial demonstration plant in B\u00e9cancour, Qu\u00e9bec. \u00a0It has taken some time to get to this \u201cmoment of truth\u201d point. 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