Results

Planned Results:

• Plant level: plant/system components
• Concept level: plant concept, information concept
• Data level: modelling, scenarios, methods
• Market level: business plan, market-ready components
• Publications: manuals

Topic

Using the example of a brick factory, the project analyzes how process heat (500 - 1000°C) and material residues from biomass plants can be used for industrial brick production. The economic use of biomass in energy-intensive industries is thus demonstrated in an exemplary manner. In the project setup, a wood gasifier provides the heat and the carbonaceous residues from the gasifier are used as proe forming agent material in the brick. This cascade system reduces disposal costs, improves the product properties of the brick, conserves fossil fuels, and at the same time increases the cost efficiency of the process. 
The project consortium consists of plant manufacturers (Burkhardt GmbH) and users (Ziegelwerk Ernst GmbH & Co. KG). Fraunhofer UMSICHT is project coordinator

Aims

The aim of the project is to promote the use of biomass in industry, particularly in the area of process heat supply, which will displace fossil fuels, reduce dependence on imports, and reduce CO2 emissions. The reference system is the production of bricks process. The project demonstrates the feasibility of innovative approaches such as the material use of gasifier coke in a product and the further development of firing technology through practical investigations.

Measures

Fraunhofer UMSICHT

• AP1 Concept development for energetic and material recovery 
• AP2 Integration of a dust burner into the process steps of a brick plant, incl. tests in the pilot plant
• AP4 Technological, economic and ecological evaluation
• AP5 Project coordination

Burkhardt GmbH

• Residue characterization and fuel design
• Performance of operational tests
• Creation of a simulation model
• Project engineering for an up-scaling

Focus

Fraunhofer UMSICHT

• Concept development and technological, economic and ecological evaluation, combustion tests with dust burner

Burkhardt GmbH

• Adaptation of the wood gasifier for optimal use in the brick plant