GE Energy’s Jenbacher gas engine business has been awarded a contract to supply two combined heat and power (CHP) units for an innovative wood gas project in the town of Oberwart in the Austrian province of Burgenland.
For the new project, which will have an output of 2 MWe and 6 MWth, GE Energy is supplying two Jenbacher engines to Ortner, the main EPC contractor acting on behalf of Energie Oberwart Errichtungs.
Part of the electrical power will be obtained from exhaust gas heat using A fluidised steam gasifier first converts the wood into a low-tar gas while the exhaust heat from the engines is used for an organic Rankine cycle to drive a steam turbine, together with district heating.
The plant is expected to be commissioned in November 2007.