Development of a small-scale multi-fuelled gasification system in Malawi

马拉维面临着严重的能源供应挑战，能源供应不足限制了马拉维的社会、经济和工业发展。未来的经济增长在很大程度上取决于能源的长期供应，这些能源来自价格合理、可及、安全和环保（低碳能源）的来源。马拉维高效能源解决方案的市场正在稳步增长，但缺乏资金、基础设施、贫困和技能等众多原因严重阻碍了采用。该项目由Refgas有限公司牵头，与Cambrian Gas有限公司（t/a CamGas）和Renew'N'Able Malawi （RENAMA）合作，旨在开发模块化和移动生物质气化和气体压缩系统，以实现低成本的现场闭环过程，利用可持续的废弃生物质原料和纯合成气产生热量和电力，这些合成气可以压缩和装瓶，为家庭应用（主要是炉灶）提供价格合理的瓶装气体。该项目的成果将是一个小型（250千瓦）原型气化装置，将在马拉维的Dwangwa进行试验。合作伙伴将证明模块化和移动系统能够提供可靠和负担得起的电力和瓶装天然气来源，这些电力和瓶装天然气来自当地种植园的可持续生物质原料（甘蔗废料），并将研究新的商业模式，以支持在马拉维农村地区的部署，并在撒哈拉以南非洲和全球其他发展中国家有潜在的复制机会。

Malawi is faced with serious energy supply challenges and inadequate energy supply is limiting its social, economic and industrial development. Future economic growth crucially depends on the long-term availability of energy from sources that are affordable, accessible, secure and environmentally friendly (low carbon energy). The market for efficient energy solutions in Malawi is growing steadily but numerous reasons such as lack of capital, infrastructure, poverty and skills is severely hampering adoption.The project consortium led by Refgas Limited in collaboration with Cambrian Gas Limited (t/a CamGas) and Renew'N'Able Malawi (RENAMA), aim to develop a modular and mobile biomass gasification and gas compression system to enable a low cost, on-site closed-loop process, that generates heat & electricity from a sustainable waste biomass feedstock and a pure syngas that can be compressed and bottled to supply affordable bottled gas for household applications (mainly cookstoves).The project outcome will be a small-scale (250kW) prototype gasification unit that will be trialled in Dwangwa, Malawi. The partners will prove that the modular and mobile system is able to provide a reliable and affordable source of electricity and bottled gas from a sustainable biomass feedstock taken from local plantations (sugar cane waste), and will investigate new business models that will support deployment in rural areas across Malawi, with potential replication opportunities across sub-Saharan Africa and other developing countries globally.