Project
The Kwamoka Energy renewable power project will be located strategically on a 14.17 acres land at the Oti light industrial area near Sokoban Wood Village in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. This site sits at a locus point of resources being at the proximity of the Sokoban wood village (our main source of fuel stock supply) potential private off takers and the national grid.
The total area available for development of the hybrid plant is 57, 000 square meters. With the estimate of 27 000 square meters dedicated to the biomass power plant, and rest is estimated to be available for the PV park among others.
The waste to energy project will help to address waste disposal problems and shore up available power capacity in the KUMASI area while the addition of the solar PV plant will ensure total green energy to our off takers and also improve on the economics of the project.
.The project will consist of approximately 10MW of waste to energy generation and 4 MW of solar PV generation. This will be developed in phases.
The first phase is the development of around 10MW waste to energy project, using wood and agricultural waste.
The facility is planned to fire on different types of bio- waste, to ensure that wide variety of Biomass is available in sufficient quantities to consistently run the plant. The plant is planned to run on approximately 230 tons of bio-waste per day.
Ghana has huge proven quantities of Biomass that is currently of minimal use.
The thermodynamic design of the biomass power plant(BPP) is characterized by:
- A grate firing boiler and a condensing steam turbine with steam extraction for process heat.
- Woods residuals with a lower heating value of about 16 MJ/kg as fuel
- A steam turbine with main steam parameters of 65 bar / 508 °C
- A steam extractor in order to provide process steam at 17 bar and 350 °C
- A steam flow of 12 t/h
- No steam reheaters
- Air-cooled system
- The components of the planned system are as followed:
- Condensing-extraction steam turbine
- Air cooled condenser (ACC)
- Condensate preheater
- Feed water tank with a deaerator
- Feed water pumps
- Grate firing boiler with air heater, fabric filter and fans
The first phase is the development of around 10MW waste to energy project, using wood and agricultural waste.
The facility is planned to fire on different types of bio- waste, to ensure that wide variety of Biomass is available in sufficient quantities to consistently run the plant. The plant is planned to run on approximately 230 tons of bio-waste per day.
Ghana has huge proven quantities of Biomass that is currently of minimal use.
The thermodynamic design of the biomass power plant(BPP) is characterized by:
- A grate firing boiler and a condensing steam turbine with steam extraction for process heat.
- Woods residuals with a lower heating value of about 16 MJ/kg as fuel
- A steam turbine with main steam parameters of 65 bar / 508 °C
- A steam extractor in order to provide process steam at 17 bar and 350 °C
- A steam flow of 12 t/h
- No steam reheaters
- Air-cooled system
- The components of the planned system are as followed:
- Condensing-extraction steam turbine
- Air cooled condenser (ACC)
- Condensate preheater
- Feed water tank with a deaerator
- Feed water pumps
- Grate firing boiler with air heater, fabric filter and fans
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- The heat balance calculation indicates a resulting net electrical efficiency of 25.0% for the biomass power plant power production.
- Apart from the previously mentioned main elements, the following auxiliary components are required:
- Firefighting equipment such as smoke detectors, fire extinguishers and a water reservoir
- The equipment will fulfil the local requirements for safety and firefighting
The project is at an advanced stage and impressive number of milestones have already been achieved towards its realization
- Project site acquired
- Feasibility Study (The study was conducted in 2017 but it is being upgrade to Detailed Project Report)
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) report and environmental permit
- Biomass Supply Assessment
- Biomass Supply Contract
- MOU with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology(KNUST)
- PPA Draft from Electricity Company of Ghana
- Siting permit
- Land profile
- Geological survey
- Geotechnical study
- Hydrological study
- Registration with Ghana Investment Promotion Centre
Kwamoka Energy shares the government and public’s concern about climate change and our planet. With this issue at the forefront of our concerns, significant steps to manage greenhouse gas emissions have been put into place. We are committed to producing energy in the most environmentally and economically sustainable manner, by evaluating and adapting our processes to reduce emissions and waste, conserve energy and natural resources and reduce the potential for environmental impacts from our activities and operations]. The controlled combustion process will help combat the Environmental and health hazards due to excess unutilized waste and also help mitigate climate change.
- Beyond the environmental and energy benefits, the project right from its implementation to commissioning and beyond will stimulate a micro economy and contribute to the socio economic development of the community and the region as a whole.
- As part of an agreed technical partnership with the Energy Centre of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, the project will facilitate [practical research work by students, strengthen faculty, curricula and student development as a whole.
This partnership is very paramount to us because we believe that educating these students benefits not just them and the university but the company as a whole, since tomorrow’s KEGL’s engineers and technicians are today’s students.]
The successful implementation of the project will encourage and guide the establishment of similar project activities to enable Ghana utilize the abundant Biomass waste which are usually burnt or sent to landfills. This makes this project a truly outstanding and innovative project.