Gin Keat ONG
Energy is basic for all human activities. Biomass is the most common form of raw material available over many parts of the world. Human activities generate forms of biomass wastes including food wastes, as a result of industrial, commercial and consumer activities. In many countries, these wastes are not disposed or treated properly resulting in land, air and water pollution. Uniflow Power Australia has invented and developed a unique small-scale biomass waste to energy generation platform that combust low value biomass or organic wastes/materials into useful energy. From 30kg/hr of biomass at 30% moisture content, 4.5kWh of 240Volt electricity is generated, 20kW of steam/heat and rotary power. All this is a closed loop system, essentially a mini power station. With two core patents granted globally, it is designed and built for the Base of Pyramid of 4 billion people, filling an energy generation gap with a machine that can be set up, run and maintained by a local workforce. For the BOP market, this machine is fully mechanical, does not require any batteries to start or store electricity and has no electronics. This mini CHP product with an external combustion engine at technology realisation level 7.5 has been tested and run in Australia and India and will be installed in a public building in Canberra in July 2020. Its future uses include been part of solar minigrids/farms replacing diesel gen sets as backup power. The CHP will power rural and urban communities using local sourced biomass materials, creating local employment and village industries. The technology will reinvent small scale distributed energy generation, disrupt poverty and uplift communities.
