Leading project of biomass-coupled power generation in the Netherlands: Amer Power Plant

　　The Amer power plant is located in Geertruidenberg, the Netherlands, and is a leading project for biomass-coupled power generation in the Netherlands. The power plant originally belonged to the Dutch Essent Group, and was merged into the RWE Group with the Essent Group in 2009. Amer Power Plant has two large coal-fired boiler units, of which Unit 8 was commissioned in 1980 with an installed capacity of 645MW; Unit 9 was commissioned in 1993 with an installed capacity of 600MW.

　　Amer power plant exterior photo

　　Amer is one of the first large-scale coal-fired power plants to carry out biomass-coupled power generation transformation in the Netherlands. In 2001, when the large-scale coal-fired power plant biomass-coupled power generation faltered in Europe, Amer expanded an 80MWth next to its unit 9 ( The biomass fluidized bed gasifier based on heat) is coupled to the original coal-fired unit for power generation, which opened the prelude to the biomass-coupled power generation of Amer Power Plant. The combustible gas produced by the gasifier after processing biomass fuel is coupled and combusted with coal in the coal-fired boiler of Unit 9 through a 600MW steam turbine generator to produce a power generation capacity of approximately 35MW, equivalent to 5% biomass gasification of the unit Coupled power generation.

　　With the development of biomass coupled power generation technology, a biomass fuel is pulverized into powder before combustion, and then enters the furnace and the pulverized coal is burned together. The biomass direct combustion coupling technology route is quickly adopted by various energy groups and countries in Europe. Widely accepted by the government. As the leading project for biomass-coupled power generation in the Netherlands, Amer is not far behind and started the transformation process of this lower-cost and more efficient biomass-coupled power generation system.