This quad-generation project will demonstrate the co-production of renewable electricity, heat, hydrogen, and greenhouse quality carbon dioxide (CO2) from the City of Vancouver’s landfill gas being supplied by Maxim Power.
A key technology featured in the project is Quadrogen’s unique landfill gas cleaning process that enables the use of FCE’s Direct FuelCell (DFC) power plant to cleanly and efficiently generate the four value streams.
The ground-breaking event also marks the collaborative effort between FCE and Quadrogen as project partners to bring the first commercial demonstration of FCE’s DFC that will be fueled by landfill gas.
Using Quadrogen’s Integrated Landfill Gas Clean-up System, challenging contaminants in landfill gases are removed before being utilized by the fuel cell power plant. This first-of-its-kind project will commercially demonstrate the quad-generation of four value streams using a DFC power plant. In combination with Quadrogen’s H2 Booster technology, FCE will also supply its novel hydrogen separation equipment that cost effectively extracts pure hydrogen on demand to meet customer requirements.
Quad-generation from this project will provide substantial environmental benefits by renewably producing the following four value streams.
Up to 250 kW of renewable electricity, delivered virtually pollutant-free – enough to power approximately 250 homes.
Up to 12 GJ/day of heat – roughly equivalent to heating 50 homes.
Up to 5 tonnes/day of ultra clean CO2 for use in Village Farm’s greenhouse – which displaces fossil fuel consumption, equivalent to taking 350 cars off the road.
Up to 125 kg/day of pure hydrogen – sufficient to refuel 6 fuel cell buses or 85 cars, or sold commercially for industrial applications.
This project has received funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada, British Columbia’s Innovative Clean Energy Fund, the National Research Council Canada (NRC) Industrial Research Assistance Program, and a loan from BC Bioenergy Network. NRC also contributed techno-economic, system design and integration support to the project through its Bioenergy Systems for Viable Stationary Applications program.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada also invested in this project through the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program, which was delivered in British Columbia by the Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC.
