North Fork Community Power
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North Fork Community Power is a 2.33MW wood biomass-fueled electrical generating station. The Project was conceived to help mitigate wildfire risk in its surrounding communities through the consumption of dead and high-risk forestry waste products (“biomass”) from the areas adjacent to North Fork, California. Thanks to the proprietary Ad
North Fork Community Power is a 2.33MW wood biomass-fueled electrical generating station. The Project was conceived to help mitigate wildfire risk in its surrounding communities through the consumption of dead and high-risk forestry waste products (“biomass”) from the areas adjacent to North Fork, California. Thanks to the proprietary Advanced Gasification Technology developed and supplied by EQTEC, which is also a material capital investor in the North Fork project, the process does not involve burning or combusting the wood and so the CO2 does not go up a stack. The waste wood is transformed through EQTEC’s patented process, reduced and left in solid form as pure carbon as it is converted into a hydrogen-rich synthesis gas ‘syngas’. The biomass will be gasified sub-stoichiometrically (with insufficient air to facilitate complete combustion) in a pressurized gasifier, producing a synthetic gas (syngas) with properties very similar to propane. The syngas will subsequently be utilized to fuel two reciprocating lean-burn engine/generators each equipped with a Selective Catalyst Reduction (SCR) system to minimize nitrous oxide emissions.