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Phoenix Energy partnered with D’Alessandro Termomeccanica of Miglianico, Italy, to become the exclusive agent of the CSI model biomass boilers and all other D’Alessandro Termomeccanica biomass boilers in Lebanon.
These boilers use solid fuels more efficiently through reducing your cost and dependency on fossil fuels. They provide domestic heating using readily-available olive husks from local olive oil mills in Lebanon to fuel these biomass boilers as an eco-friendly replacement solution to the diesel boilers used for space heating.
Biomass boilers can save up to 90% of the heating bill and contribute to a much cleaner and healthier environment. |
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The eco-energy boiler could easily replace existing diesel boiler. Phoenix Energy engineering team provides a dual solution whereby the boiler is installed in parallel to existing diesel boiler, running on either solid or fossil fuels according to price and situation.
The installation is very simple and requires just two piping connections using the same pump already installed. An ambient temperature control unit can be integrated to insure desired set temperature in the house directly connected to the boiler.
Our boilers can be installed for residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural heating needs.
Combustibles
The boiler is designed to burn solid renewable energy sources that save much more energy than traditional fossil fuel combustibles (diesel, gas, & oil).
The solid minced fuels are derived from agricultural, and forest wastes. The solid combustibles that are originated by renewable sources are: olive husk, grape husk, crushed shells and fruits stones and other renewable sources.
Phoenix Energy provides the eco-energy solid fuel for the boiler that consists of a 100% natural mixture of dried and treated renewable solid combustibles. The eco-energy solid fuel is available in bulk bags of 500 kg each and small 15 Kg bags delivered by our team upon request.
Phoenix Energy insures a continuous solid fuel stock of five years for your convenience. You can also burn wood manually charged into the front door.
If needed, users can adopt liquid fuels such as diesel and gas if a suitable burner is connected using our adapter kit provided upon request. |
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Features
- Reduction in landfills that are using potentially valuable land, leaching toxins into groundwater & releasing significant greenhouse gas
- 25, 40, 60, and 110 kilo-watt sized boilers
- Burns any minced or pelleted bio-fuel and wood logs
- 85% to 90% efficient v/s 60% to 70% efficiency of diesel boilers
- Automatic ignition & dual-screw automatic solid fuel feeding
- Programmable control with 9 different stages
- Adjustable geared motor for combustible flow regulation controlled via a vector drive
- Simple & robust design
- High-quality thick fire graded steel
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Advanced Heating Technology
The nested tube set inside a boiler shell is the main advantage of this design. This tube nest provides three opportunities for the hot gases to transfer heat to the water in the boiler. The built-in 3-pass technology of the eco-energy boiler is more efficient and less costly than the traditional 2-pass design.
The automatic feeding of the solid fuel is achieved through a dual screw system driven by a geared motor controlled through a vector drive. This technology ensures proper feeding of all types of solid fuels for efficient and complete combustion.
The eco-boiler runs through a fully-automated and programmable printed control board (PCB). To guarantee high efficiency and functionality of the boiler, we have programmed 9 stages from ignition, modulation through extinguishing. These stages insure safe and automated operations at all combustion phases. The PCB receives input from a smoke temperature probe and a water temperature probe and from other sensors.
Biofuel Operation
Excessive tree cutting for heating during the winter season results in catastrophic environmental problems. Wood is used as a primary biofuel in many operations in several countries; however, this usage is usually organized by advanced forestry management systems leading to controlled and healthy management of this natural resource.
In the absence of such control in the region, Phoenix Energy has chosen to use olive husk, one of nature’s abundant resources in Lebanon, to create a suitable biofuel for the biomass boilers.
Olive Husk Benefits as Biofuel
- Providing low-cost energy
- Saving exhaustible resources
- Reducing our dependence on economically-unstable fuel resources
- Delivering a significant contribution to the reduction of CO2 emissions
- Using olive mill waste as energy source
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Biomass heating technology is not new. For many years, people have used stoves and furnaces, fed with cut roundwood for space heating. The development of automated biomass heating systems began in Scandinavia in the 1970s when oil prices skyrocketed. Today, thousands of these systems operate around the world using olive husk among a multitude of biomass fuel types.
Olive husk is one of the main residues of olive oil production. The leftover fibrous material is primary lignin and cellulose that still has a high calorific value. When olive husk is burnt, an energy resource that would have otherwise gone to waste or been dumped in a landfill, can be utilized.
The remains from olive oil production cause pollution due to their high organic load. Exploiting olive husk for energy production through directly combusting it is the simplest way to reduce its harmful impact on the environment. |
Energy Facts for Lebanon
In Lebanon, olive oil is commonly pressed through the traditional press (stone wheel grinding) and the three-phase separation process. Husk from three-phase separation contains 40-45% moisture, compared to 20-25% moisture of the traditional press. In addition to moisture, the olive husk is composed of cracked olive cores, olive pulp, pericarps, and 6-9% oil. [1]
These by-products, similar in cell structure to wood and fueled by the olive oil, are great for burning. The calorific value of dried olive husk is around half as much as conventional heating diesel: 23,000 KJ/Kg compared to 40,000 KJ/Kg [2].
Compared to other renewable energy sources, biomass is an economical contributor to reducing CO2 and CO emissions. When burnt at full combustion, olive husk CO emissions release approximately 100 parts per million (ppm) compared to diesel CO emissions at 400 ppm.
In addition to reducing CO emissions, and unlike potentially toxic coal ash, biomass ash may be used as a soil amendment to replenish nutrients removed by harvest. [3].
References
[1] Management and exploitation of oil-mill wastes in the area of the NMPZ. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
[2] Phyllis Biomass Database: http://www.ecn.nl/phyllis/
[3] Utilisation of Olive Husk in energy sector in Cyprus. Fokaides, P.A.; Dr. Tsiftes, K. |
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