Ajax Equipment Ltd has supplied 24 plug screw feeders to BioMass Engineering Ltd to handle ash removal from a gasification based renewable energy plant at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The plug screw feeders prevent oxygen entering the furnace as ash is removed from the process’s gasifier and filter.
Owned by O-Gen UK Ltd, the 4.5 MWe reclaimed wood fuelled biomass gasification plant produces energy from wood chippings, forestry wood and energy crops, which will be exported to the National Grid. Maintaining an oxygen-free gasifier is essential. BioMass Engineering had tried using traditional screw feeders and airlock hoppers to remove and store the gasifier and filter ash, however, these allowed the ingress of oxygen.
