Sep 27 2010
LPP Combustion LLC has established that it’s newly introduced 30 kW Capstone C30 gas turbine can actually produce clean and green power from bio-diesel.
The company informs that the new turbine incorporates a skid-based application that can gasify liquid fuels into a neutral gas, thus producing an alternative for the normal LPP Gas, which can be deployed to run the combustion mechanisms.
LLP Combustion has set up one such demo turbine unit in Colombia MD, for the purpose of testing various kinds of liquid fuels and to derive functional experience in operating such fuels. During the initial presentations the company utilized its own fuel combination to run along with the Capstone C30 gas turbine. The turbine designed for the use of natural gas was then connected to the utility grid to supply the produced power. The hardware mechanism of the turbine permits the usage of different varieties of bio fuel without the need for modifications in the burning device and delivers LPP Gas in the same way as delivering natural gas. Unlike the other systems that require additional filtering and modifications in the system to overcome the problems of pollutants in the bio fuel, the new system vaporizes the biodiesel into nitrogen prior to sending it to the gas turbine as LPP Gas and the LPP Combustion components drastically cuts down the functional problems that arise with the burning of usual biodiesel in the gas turbines. The discharges from the C30 gas turbine that utilize LPP Gas deduced from biodiesel were found to be well within the limits.
The company had earlier declared the productive functioning of its Capstone C30 gas turbine by utilizing ethanol and naphtha by deploying the same Combustion system. The new system permits flexibility in fuel usage and betters the heat rate and decreases the requirement of maintenance, while reducing the carbon dioxide emissions by more than 80% when compared to the use of other normal fuels.