Best practice criteria for the development of biomass to energy plants : The MosTor Biomass Gasifier

Due to the different properties and extraction of biomass when compared to fossil fuels, the criteria for optimised power, heat or feedstock generation projects using different biomasses as fuel must differ substantially from those making use of coal, oil or gas. This is both true under technical and commercial aspects. This paper describes in which way a promising configuration of a potential standard biomass gasification system - called MosTor - has been derived by consideration of these criteria and the techniques available on the market for the different process steps.