Thai-British venture to use waste to produce electricity
May 13--By Busrin Treerapongpichit, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
A British and a Thai company have sealed a partnership agreement to invest 500 million baht to produce electricity and gas from waste in Thailand.
The agreement involves UK-based Intensified Technologies Incorporated (ITI)
Ltd and a Thai manufacturing consortium, KYTBW Joint Venture. ITI, a spinoff
from the University of Newcastle, has secured an agreement with the university
and the inventors of gasification systems for sustainable energy generation from
waste and biomass for the rights to six patents relevant to this technology.
KYTBW Joint Venture is a Thai-UK partnership with a majority stake held by
the Kanyong Group.
Under the partnership structure, ITI holds 49 percent of the KYTBW Joint
Venture with registered capital of 100 million baht and the KYTBW Joint Venture
will hold 50 percent of ITI.
Phaphad Phodhivorakhun, chairman the Federation of Thai Industries and the
chairman of Kanyong Electric, said the project aimed to produce electricity,
hydrogen gas and heat from general waste and sell the energy and gas products to
the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, independent power producers (IPPs),
and industrial companies.
The project's prospects would also be supported by government regulations
that require at least 5 percent of renewable energy be included in total
capacity of forthcoming IPPs.
Under the technology, collected waste would be compressed and pass through a
chemical polymer and intensified catalysis processes before generating energy
and gas. One tonne of waste can produce one megawatt of electricity using the
system.
Murat Dogru, technical director of ITI, said that through the local
partnership, the gasifier systems would be a boon to local municipal authorities
and industry. He said they represented the the most reliable and efficient
energy production technology from waste and biomass for sustainable energy
generation available on the market, as well as providing end users with a
state-of-the-art miniaturised mobile gasifier technology.
"Our past experience of gasifier system scale-up, demonstration,
operation, reliability and responsive service backup gives us the confidence to
make this commitment and we expect to deliver many gasification systems over the
next 24 months," he said.
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