BioGas MicroGrid in a box (BGMG)

盒装沼气微电网 (BGMG)

• 批准号: 10044397
• 金额: $ 82.09万
• 依托单位: CAGE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10044397
• 关键词: BioGas; MicroGrid; box; BGMG

BGMG (Bio Gas Micro Grid in a box) will develop a hybrid renewable energy hub for deployment in off grid communities. It combines solar, wind and biogas energy resources in one drop-in containerised unit with electrical energy stored and deployed from batteries and waste heat recovered for local utilisation. The project expands the work of the partners in the recent highly successful Energy Catalyst WEGEN project that resulted in development and subsequent commercial sales of a novel 6kW plug-and-play biogas generator technology. The partners include WEGEN collaborators CAGE Technologies Ltd (CTL)/OakTec (power system technology developer), Sistema Bio (biogas system OEM and system trial and demonstration) and Sutton Power Engineering ( generator OEM and supplier of solar hardware). The partners will develop an intelligent energy management platform to integrate, manage and distribute the bio/solar/wind energy inputs based on a development of the existing CTL/OakTec intelligent control platform. Additional outputs will be an application of the WEGEN biogas engine technology to a new modular liquid cooled engine family that will allow a range of power outputs to suit application requirements delivering world leading fuel efficiency and low emissions. The liquid cooled engines will employ CHP technology to capture waste heat for distribution.CTL and Sutton have considerable experience of hybrid power systems having deployed LPG-solar-battery systems for site welfare with the HS2 rail project at Euston, London and more recently hydrogen-solar-battery hybrid to power the cruise ship terminal in Orkney.BGMG will support the development of carbon neutral microgrids in sub-saharan Africa and India and a trial system will be deployed to Kenya and be tested in a high profile location. Applications include stand-alone power for large food and agricultural businesses, villages, schools, hospitals and health-centres and public buildings. Bio-waste from the immediate location including food can be used in the feedstock.As global energy prices rise the business case for BGMG becomes stronger. Whilst the system will be more costly than a simpler generator or solar array it can be funded to the customer on a 'machinery as a service' basis by Sistema's established easy payment business model and will enjoy minimal fuel and running costs over its lifetime giving it a much lower lifetime cost than conventional fossil based power systems. Immediate commercial opportunities include powering larger farms, food production businesses including rice mills where rice straw is used as part of the AD feedstock, agricultural processing and charging EV's.

BGMG（Bio Gas Micro Grid in a Box）将开发一个混合可再生能源中心，用于在离网社区部署。它将太阳能、风能和沼气能源结合在一个集装箱式装置中，电能储存和部署在电池中，废热回收供当地使用。该项目扩大了合作伙伴在最近非常成功的能源催化剂WEGEN项目中的工作，该项目导致了新型6 kW即插即用沼气发电机技术的开发和随后的商业销售。合作伙伴包括WEGEN的合作伙伴CAGE Technologies Ltd（CTL）/OakTec（电力系统技术开发商）、Sistema Bio（沼气系统OEM和系统试验和示范）和萨顿电力工程（发电机OEM和太阳能硬件供应商）。合作伙伴将开发一个智能能源管理平台，以现有CTL/OakTec智能控制平台的开发为基础，集成、管理和分配生物/太阳能/风能输入。其他产出将是将WEGEN沼气发动机技术应用于新的模块化液体冷却发动机系列，该系列将允许一系列功率输出，以满足应用要求，提供世界领先的燃油效率和低排放。液体冷却发动机将采用热电联产技术来捕获废热进行分配。CTL和萨顿在混合动力系统方面拥有丰富的经验，他们在尤斯顿的HS 2铁路项目中部署了液化石油气太阳能电池系统，伦敦和最近的氢-太阳能-电池混合动力为奥克尼的游轮码头提供动力。BGMG将支持在亚撒哈拉非洲和印度，并将在肯尼亚部署一个试验系统，并在一个引人注目的地点进行测试。应用包括大型食品和农业企业、村庄、学校、医院和保健中心以及公共建筑的独立电力。包括食品在内的生物废弃物可用于原料。随着全球能源价格的上涨，BGMG的商业案例变得更加强大。虽然该系统比更简单的发电机或太阳能电池阵列成本更高，但它可以通过Sistema已建立的轻松支付商业模式以“机械即服务”的方式向客户提供资金，并且在其生命周期内将享受最低的燃料和运行成本，从而使其比传统化石能源系统的生命周期成本低得多。直接的商业机会包括为大型农场、食品生产企业（包括将稻草用作AD原料的水稻米尔斯）、农业加工和电动汽车充电提供动力。