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Current Events
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EPI's
recent achievements, and Future Plans.
 | September 17, 2010 - EPI's Jim Starkey will present at the
Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure Forum on the Caltech campus in Pasadena,
CA. He will present "30-year-old Fluidized Bed Technology Coming of
Age" during the Biomass Waste to Fuel session. For more information on
the forum visit
http://www.resnick.caltech.edu/programs/parsons-forum/ |
| November 3, 2010 - EPI's Patrick Travis is presenting at the
Southeast Biomass Conference in Atlanta. For more information on this
conference visit http://se.biomassconference.com/ |
| December 14-16, 2010 - EPI is exhibiting at
Power-Gen International in
Orlando. Come by Booth # 1446
and meet our team to learn about EPI's energy solutions. To request a complimentary exhibit hall pass
e-mail us at epi2@energyproducts.com |
| June 16, 2010 - EPI's Jim Starkey presented a paper, "Biomass
Power Generation Utilizing Flexible Fuel Fluidized Bed Technology" at the
International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo in St. Louis, MO. For more
information, visit the conference website
www.fuelethanolworkshop.com |
| August 4 - 6, 2010 - EPI's Patrick Travis presented a paper at
the Northeast Biomass Conference in Boston. For more information,
visit the
conference website. |
| August 11, 2010 - Patrick Travis presented a paper "Biomass
Gasification - Minimizing the Impact of Co-Firing Biomass in Coal Burners"
at the Coal-Gen Conference in
Pittsburgh. |
| May 15, 2008 - Patrick Travis presented a paper,
"Integrating Biomass & Alternative Fuels Into Today's Ethanol Plants" at the
Optimizing Ethanol Plants
conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Contact EPI if you would like a
copy of the paper. |
| June 16-19, 2008 - EPI exhibited at the Fuel Ethanol Workshop &
Expo in Nashville. |
| February 23-25, 2010 - EPI exhibited at the
Renewable Energy World
Conference & Expo in Austin, Texas. If you missed the show,
request a complimentary information package - e-mail us at
epi2@energyproducts.com |
Press Releases -
EPI's
most recent media coverage
| September 2009 - Coeur d'Alene, Idaho USA - EPI, a leading
provider of solid fuel fired renewable energy systems, has been selected
to provide two fluidized bed energy systems to Ameresco Federal
Solutions in support of their contract with the Department of Energy's
Savannah River Site project. The contract includes two identical
fluidized bed boiler islands that utilize wood waste and chipped tires
as fuel to produce superheated steam to drive a turbine for power
production. Process steam is extracted from the turbine for use at
the Savannah River Nuclear site. |
| September 2009 - Coeur d'Alene, Idaho USA - EPI, a leading
provider of solid fuel energy systems, has been selected
by Masonite to provide a fluidized bed advanced staged gasifier (ASG)
that converts plant waste materials and other biomass into usable
energy. The state-of-the-art biomass energy system installation is
at Masonite's Laurel, Mississippi facility. This unique system
provides two separate energy streams, steam and cleaned high-temperature
gas, from a single fluidized bed ASG cell. |
| September 14, 2006 - Dallas, TX - Panda Ethanol Inc. was joined
today by officials from across the state to break ground on the company's
100 million gallon-per-year ethanol plant in Hereford, Texas. When
finished, the first-of-its-kind facility will be one of the most energy
efficient ethanol refineries in the nation and the largest biomass fueled
ethanol plant in the United States. |
| September 2006 -
EPI
was selected to provide the ethanol industry's first fluidized bed energy
system that converts cow manure into usable energy. |
| September 2006 -
EPI
was selected to provide the technology for the conversion of an existing
grate boiler to an advanced technology fluidized bed staged gasifier for a
confidential client on the east coast of the US. |
| May 2006 - EPI
was selected to provide an advanced clean-coal fluidized bed system for the
Corn, LP ethanol production facility in Goldfield, Iowa. |
| November, 2002 - Article by
Steve Blankinship, Associate Editor of POWER ENGINEERING Magazine
www.power-eng.com
Black & Veatch and Energy Products of Idaho
(EPI)
have announced results of a study examining the technical feasibility and
economic viability of biomass as a supplementary fuel source in existing power
plants.
The study, conducted in conjunction with the
Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD), identified a promising green power
alternative that uses biomass gasification. Employing biomass gasification at
existing power plants can improve air quality and provide green power at a
considerably lower cost compared to the development of a new biomass power
plant. Biomass
gasification technology uses any material of biological origin, such as wood
waste, agricultural residues, and yard waste as fuel, converting the energy of
the solid biomass waste into a low-Btu biogas. The study determined that the
substitution of biogas for a percentage of coal can significantly reduce NOx,
SO2, mercury, carbon dioxide and other pollutants, especially when
the biogas is used in a reburn configuration. Another potential advantage is
that renewable biomass fuels can be purchased at low cost, which enhances the
profitability of existing fossil fuel assets.
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WESTERN REGIONAL BIOMASS ENERGY PROGRAM FINAL REPORT
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| December, 2001 - Black & Veatch, Energy Products of Idaho (EPI)
and Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) announced today that they have been
selected by the Western Regional Biomass Energy Program (WRBEP), funded by the
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), to perform a feasibility study of an add-on
fluidized bed biomass gasifier at an NPPD coal power plant. |
| May, 2000 - EPI was
selected to provide a fluidized bed energy system to convert paper sludge into
usable energy in Italy. This plant is EPI's third installation in Italy. |
Combustion in a Fluidized Bed, an alternative for the
combustion of Biomass "InfoPower"
May 2000
| EPI's Fluidized Bed
technology was featured in the May 2000 issue of the Spanish magazine "InfoPower" |
Europe's Landfill Alternative
"Waste-to-Energy" - SWT June 1999
| Difficult fuels and stringent emissions requirements influence Europe's
preference to convert waste to energy. A preferred process uses
EPI's clean fluidized bed technology.
- For More Information about this article and related topics,
contact
Kent Pope at EPI. |
| The EPI supplied
combustion system was subject to some of the tightest emission constraints
imposed on a solid fuel fired system of this size, and is operating at a
fraction of the permitted emission levels. |
| Shippenville, PA - Environmental and performance testing of new plant
proves clean stacks with worst case fuels. |
Current Projects
| EPI has six ethanol energy system projects in various stages of
design, manufacture, construction or commissioning. These
energy systems are fueled on biomass or coal. |
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