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Friday, September 24, 2010

Vaporizing biodiesel for natural gas turbines

Biodiesel Magazine
October 2010
Posted Sept. 22, 2010

LPP Combustion LLC has successfully demonstrated the clean generation of green, dispatchable, renewable electric power from a 30kW Capstone C30 gas turbine using biodiesel. The LPP Combustion skid-based technology vaporizes liquid fuels into an inert gas, creating a substitute natural gas trademarked LPP Gas, which is then used to power combustion devices. The company behind the technology, LPP Combustion, has installed a demonstration unit in Columbia, Md., to obtain operational experience regarding the clean combustion of a wide array of liquid fuels, including biodiesel.

Initial demonstrations have used an LPP Combustion fuel preparation skid together with a Capstone C30 gas turbine. The Capstone turbine, designed for operation on natural gas, is connected to the local utility grid. The LPP Combustion hardware allows operation on a range of liquid fuels without modification of the combustion device, delivering LPP Gas in the same manner as natural gas.

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