The plant will consist of four 6.7MW modular power systems and the project site is located at Nances Creek Industrial Park, Alabama. The attached Algae biodiesel plant will produce clean fuel that can be used in device that utilizes diesel fuel.
The plant at full capacity will require 33.5tons per hour of wood waste feedstock provided from the surrounding area. The plant has an installed capacity of 24MW at $0.06 per KW and will produce 20 million gallon of bio-diesel annually at $2 per gallon.
The company said that the plant will operate 24 hours a day and when completed provide 60 jobs. EQI would be an owner and operate this facility.
The company claimed that Energy Quest’s modular gasification design will result in lower set up costs and increased efficiencies. The gasifiers will provide clean syngas fuel for the power generators. The Algae CO2 capture system will be provided by others and completely built in Piedmont.
The stack gases containing CO2 are captured and ducted to Algae growing pod clusters as feed for the growth of Oil (lipid) producing algae. The lipid laden algae is harvested from the pod growing clusters several times per day.
The Algae is then dewatered to a sufficient level to feed into the lipid extraction process. Once the lipids have been extracted from the algae it is fed into the lipid oil to diesel conversion process. Using this process will yield 200lt of bio-diesel from every ton of CO2 produced from the biomass combustion process.
Estimated cost of the turn key project is $80.92m.
